| Tip 372 | Grab Files from Your Mac While Miles Away |
There are a variety of ways of accessing files on your Mac’s hard disk while you’re away from it. Of course, for these tips to work, your Mac will need to be left turned on when you’re not sitting in front of it, and you’ll have to ensure it isn’t set to go into sleep mode after a period of inactivity (look at the Energy Saver settings within System Preferences).
Using the Back To My Mac Service
The easiest and most fuss-free way of accessing files is to use the Back To My Mac service, which is offered as part of iCloud (see Exploring OS X: iCloud). However, this can be accessed only via another Mac.
Back To My Mac makes it seem like the home Mac and remote Mac are on the same local area network—as ...
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