Offline Hard Drive

[Belle]

I have numerous threads, posts, papers, personally transcribed tapes, teachings, etc. from WayDale, GSpot, STS tapes, etc. that I'd like to keep in a central location I can reach from anywhere without having to search through beaucoup CDs, computers etc......

I'm on a Mac now and my .doc files don't open on it - it's a pain to clean off my desk so I can get to my pc and wade through stacks of CDs trying desperately not to scratch them in order to access the files. I don't see myself as using pc at home unless absolutely necessary and work is more and more difficult since the network nazi and I don't always see eye to eye.

Anyone know of the best, cheap (preferably "free") way to do this?

Thanks much!!

[OldSkool]

Well, best I know for what you want to do is to have an external hard drive.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Western-Digital-320GB-2.5-My-Book-Mac-Edition/12547958?sourceid=1500000000000003142050&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=12547958

I have one of these. Also, keep in mind that I am a hard core computer geek with 4 internal drives (including a solid state drive - lighting fast) 1 external drive, usually 3 or more operating systems - use mostly linux, I admin a server with a groupware suite allowing me a virtual office from anywhere, plus my house is hard wired with cat5 ethernet. So, i can discuss other options too.

as for doc files grab Word for Mac

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Word-Mac-2008/dp/B000XD8PZG

or better yet, give openoffice for mac a whirl.

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/

Feel free to private message me with questions.

Edited April 21, 2010 by OldSkool

[OldSkool]

For a internet based solution check:

https://www.dropbox.com/

[WordWolf]

For just opening Doc files, the simplest solution is to use OpenOffice.

[OldSkool]

For just opening Doc files, the simplest solution is to use OpenOffice.

Being a Linux head I use OO a lot, since the days it was only called StarOffice. It's a great program.