If you want to send a file to someone in your home or office, and the other user or Mac doesn’t have an iChat account, make sure that Bonjour is enabled in both Macs’ iChat’s Accounts preferences.
The person must click to accept the transfer the files will go right to the other Mac in a jiffy. If both Macs have Apple’s iChat configured, just find the name of the person in your iChat Buddy List, and drag the file or folder onto his or her name. Use iChat file transferĭrag a file onto a person’s name in your iChat Buddy List to send a file. If you have an AirPort Extreme base station or Time Capsule, you can set it up as a shared disk for easy file transfers. Copy any files you want to that disk-you may want to make folders for different users, if you have several-and others can get the files whenever they want their computers don’t have to be on at the same time as they do with file sharing. Set this up as a shared disk in the AirPort Utility (in your /Applications/Utilities folder), and you’ll be able to see it in the Shared section of the Finder sidebar. Time Capsule, you can connect a hard disk to the devices’ USB ports.
