a) Open a terminal Open a terminal on your Mac workstation.
Search for the Terminal icon in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and execute it (double click).

Please ALWAYS check that in the destination folder/directory it IS NOT PRESENT a file with the same name of the file which you have to copy there. If a file with the same name is present, using the copy command, this file will be overwritten.

• 1) at the prompt write:
  

scp file_name_on_your_laptop  your-sissa-username@name-of-your-workstation:file_destination_address/new_file_name

In the following example the sissa-username is jsmith,
the workstation-name is bluestar.ap.sissa.it,
the file_location_address is the working folder on your laptop, so it is omitted,
the file_name_on_your_laptop is fiele_name,
the file_destination_address is ~/Desktop/ and will be copied with the same name (so it is not present a new_file_name).
scp fiele_name   jsmith@bluestar.ap.sissa.it:~/Desktop/

• 2) at the prompt write your sissa password when requested.
  

• 1) at the prompt write:
  

scp your-sissa-username@name-of-your-workstation:file_location_address/file_name   file_destination_ address/new_file_name

In the following example the sissa-username is jsmith,
the workstation-name is bluestar.ap.sissa.it,
the file_location_ address is the ~/Desktop,
the file_name is file_name,
the file_destination_address is ~/Desktop and will be copied with the same name (so the new_file_name is not present).
scp jsmith@bluestar.ap.sissa.it:~/Desktop/file_name   ~/Desktop

• 2) at the prompt write your sissa password when requested.