


My options were to write a script to delete each file after getting copied or use a different tool with file move semantics.Ī couple of Google searches later, the most up-voted tool on Serverfault for the task is rsync. I wanted the whole process to be unattended so I naturally gravitated towards doing the transfer over my WiFi network.įor the network transfer, the easiest method I could think of was to use scp but it turns out that there's no built-in support to "move" files with scp. I recently needed to move several gigabytes of data from an old laptop running Windows 8.1 to another laptop running macOS and my options were to use an external disk or a network transfer.
