Re: Transferring information from PowerBook G4 to MacBook Pro?
- From: dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson)
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:58:58 +1200
<helenoliver1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 22, 7:40 pm, Davoud <s...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
helenoliver1:
Thanks to all the have replied. I started up my new MacBook Pro
without transferring any files. After doing I discovered that I am
running Lion 10.7 and this means that I can use Migration Assistant,
as it is my understanding that my old compute and the new computer
don't work well together (system software).
What does that mean? I had a problem with transfer from a Snow Leopard
machine to a new Lion machine in Lion's early days, but that was due to
a bug that Apple has since fixed.
As for using a thumb drive, be careful. A simple copy/replace of files
could lead to permission problems. You haven't explained why you don't
just get a cable--FireWire or Ethernet--and do it the Apple-recommended
way, in which case you won't have to worry about where it all goes
because the Apple software takes care of that and you are unlikely to
have permission problems. Forgive me, but it seems like you are keyed
up over this, and thus making it more difficult than it needs to be.
Do you live within a reasonable drive of an Apple Store? Make an
appointment on-line at the Genius Bar and they will do the transfer for
you at no charge and teach you how to do it yourself as well.
In any event I was told by someone at work that could use a USB thumb
drive to transfer such things as Library like. Only thing is that I am
confused, as I know where all these files located my PowerBook, but am
not sure where to place them on my new MacBook Pro. I really need to
move all of my iTunes, so that I can activate my new iPhone. Please I
was hoping to dot he same for Mail and Safari. Please reply if you can
tell me where to put this stuff.
I have tried using the ethernet cable, but that does no good. I just
keep getting the same message about needing to up Migration
Assistant. Just trying to find another way to do this. I am several
hours away from the nearest Apple Store. Any other suggestions?
Get an external hard drive (USB or Firewire), use software like
SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old computer's entire
drive to that, then connect it to the new computer and use Migration
Assistant to migrate from it.
Or get a suitable Firewire cable (or 9-to-6 adapter) and do a Firewire
migration.
The 10.7 Migration Assistant compatibility problem only affects
migration over a network, and it appears from your description that
10.4's Migration Assistant is NOT compatible with 10.7 for a network
migration. Apple won't be issuing an update to fix it.
Other forms of migration are fine.
The catch: because you have already set up the new computer, you are now
in the situation where you have created the first user account, and if
you try to migrate the accounts from the old computer at least one of
them will have its user ID reassigned (and its short name might change,
if your initially created account has the same short name). This will
result in permissions problems if you have any external drives.
To avoid this, it would help to know the answer to these questions:
- On the old computer, did you ever create any additional user accounts?
- Do you have any data on the new computer you want to keep?
If the answers to these questions are both "no", then you can proceed as
follows, once you have a suitable method for Migration Assistant to
access your old computer's hard drive (or a copy of it).
1. On the new computer, go into System Preferences > Accounts and create
a second temporary admin account, using a short name which differs from
the account on the old computer. Make sure the new account has been
granted admin privileges.
2. Log out of the first account and log into the new temporary admin
account.
3. Go into System Preferences > Accounts and delete the original account
that was created while setting up the computer.
4. Run Migration Assitant and migrate everything from the old computer.
(These steps will free up user ID 501, which is probably the one being
used by your account on the old computer.)
If you have more than one account on the old computer and want to
preserve its user IDs in the migration, then you need to identify which
account on the old computer is using user ID 501. You can migrate all of
the accounts EXCEPT the one that has user ID 501, then make one of the
migrated accounts an admin (or create another temporary admin account),
then proceed from step 2 above (this time only migrate the single
remaining user account).
You can see what user ID is being used by each account with the
following command in Terminal:
ls -n /Users
The third column is the user ID and the last one is the short account
name. (Ignore "Shared" - that isn't a user account.)
--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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