Guides
- How to Connect Two Macs with a Thunderbolt or USB‑C Cable (2026)
How to link two Macs with a Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 cable, set up Thunderbolt Bridge and see the other Mac's disks in the Finder — manually, or automatically with DiskBridge.
- DiskBridge vs Intel Thunderbolt Share — Linking Two Computers with a Cable, on Mac and on PC
Intel Thunderbolt Share lets two Windows PCs talk over a Thunderbolt cable; DiskBridge does the same between two Macs. What each one does, what it costs, and why they are not interchangeable.
- Migrating to a New Mac over a Cable: Migration Assistant or Manual Copy?
How to move your data to a new Mac as fast as possible with a Thunderbolt cable, what Migration Assistant does well and badly, and how to keep using the old Mac afterwards.
- Moving Video Footage from a MacBook to a Mac Studio Without an External SSD
For editors and photographers — moving 4K/8K footage, RAW libraries and Final Cut, DaVinci or Lightroom projects from a laptop to a desktop workstation at Thunderbolt cable speed.
- Target Disk Mode on Apple Silicon Macs: What Changed, and the Alternative
Target Disk Mode is gone on M1, M2, M3 and M4 Macs. What Apple offers instead (Share Disk), its limits, and how to get direct access to another Mac's disks over a cable again.
- Thunderbolt Bridge Not Working: 9 Causes and Their Fixes
Thunderbolt Bridge "Not connected", a 169.254 address with no connection, the other Mac invisible, password refused, low throughput — the complete troubleshooting guide for linking two Macs with a cable.
- Transfer Files from Mac to Mac Without Wi‑Fi: 6 Methods Compared
AirDrop, external SSD, Migration Assistant, Target Disk Mode, Ethernet or a Thunderbolt cable — which method to copy tens of gigabytes between two Macs, and how fast each one really is.
- Which Cable to Connect Two Macs? Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, USB4 and the Traps
Not every USB‑C cable links two Macs. How to recognise a Thunderbolt or USB4 cable, which length to choose, which adapter for an older Thunderbolt 2 Mac, and which cables to avoid.