Personally, I wouldn't let my SO anywhere near my computers!

his Externals are USB2 so they will be sloooow on my machine

Never mind - you can just set the copy going then go away and do something useful for an hour or two whilst the data transfers.

Tsk tsk - such a display of trust

I won't go near his machines - nasty windows things

Agreed - I see a wonderful visiting session in front of me this afternoon

Dunno why this can't wait till he comes home and he can do it all himself from his own machines instead of all this kerffuffle [ mind you that could be another 2 weeks or longer before he is chucked out ]

All done !

And I could rant for hours about this.

The stuff he wanted was on 1 of his External Drives and I checked what it was by opening it [ I had a complaint that my baby mouse was not a left handed one !! ] and then just dropped it on a New Folder on the desktop [ my method of getting it all together tidily rather than having all these odd things scattered over my desktop ]

When we had finished it was all of 2.2MB - I mean positively HUGE

So it was all sent down to my daughter by e-mail - yes it was all Somme stuff as I thought and my elder grandson is off there on a School trip tomorrow.

The folder has been opened and everything bar one document has been read - that one Document was in Works format which the MacBook had opened as an OO document . It has now been changed to word 97/XP and resent.

What a flipping day !