What is the best way to transfer a huge amount of pictures form computer to computer?

I want to transfer a lot of pictures from my Dell desktop to my Macbook - 5,096 pictures to be exact, lol. I know that you can email pictures to yourself, put them on CDs, or use a flash drive, but this is way too many pictures for any of those or my 2gb flash drive. What would be the best way to get them from one computer to the other?|||The best way to transfer images.


Use a wired network with a switch.


If your computers are connected to a network then you can use the 100MB or if you are lucky 1GB transfer rate.


You will have to share your image folder to do this, and you might need to create a user password on the computer with the images.





Other options: USB drive and it don't have to be big. You can always take more then one trip to copy and paste files to the new drive. ( copy some, carry, paste, and repeat)





You can also burn DVD or CD which may be a good idea anyways. Then with the new computer you won't need to copy ALL the images.


If you are like me, you have not deleted the less then perfect images or took several image that looks almost the same.





If your images are .jpg and most likely they are, then they are already compress and zipping them up will save you less then 1% of the space.





If they are .bmp files or .tiff then zipping will be useful.





You may also want to use Easy Duplicate Finder http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/ to get rid of any multiple copies of the same image.|||The fastest way would be to connect them physically with a FireWire cable. Turn on your Macbook while pressing the 't' and you will see a FireWire symbol floating around the screen. That is your cue to plug your FireWire cable into both computers. The Macbook will mount like an external drive, and you can drag-and-drop the files wherever you want them.|||yes, burning a DVD-R or compressing the photos sounds like the best options.


in the future, consider uploading your photos so a site like photo bucket whenever you take them, that way, you can download the entire album whenever you switch computers.|||Well, do you know how to zip them? If so, do it and try to use a flash drive.





If after zipping it still doesn't fit, why not burn a DVD-R for those pictures?|||You could get an external hardrive and just use it as a giant flashdrive. It might not be as cost effective, but then you could also just keep all your pictures on the external and keep the memory from your other computers free.