I just bought the new Imac, the alluminum one. I have an old G5 Imac pre intel. I’m wondering how migrations assistant will handle things such as programs that use classic and programs that might not have the update to intel? I realize that I won’t be able to use my classic on there but I wonder if Migration assistant will recognize that and maybe freeze or something. I suppose if it transfers everything I’ll have to delete them later on. Thanks for your info though It eases my mind considerably about my new Imac.
Ron

I have spent the last couple of hours trying to use migration assistant to transfer from my old G4 to my new iMac 20″ Duo Core intel machine. It doesn’t work. It won’t recongnize the drives of my old machine when it has been started in firewire transfer mode.

I spent some time with the apple support folks and found out that it is an intel vs. powermac thing.

If you have any ideas on this it would be great. Thanks.

-kr

How can I migrate data from my mac mini to my new MacBook without the mini being hooked up to a monitor or keyboard?

I have a old G5 imac and just bought a new 24 inch core duo imac, i wanna transfer everything to the new mac but can’t as my old G5 has just packed up and won’t turn on now. Would really like to transfer my stuff from old mac but can’t as it doesn’t work, can any one help?

Trying to transfer from my old mac laptop to my new imac, got the 800/400 cable, launched migration asst. but when I restart my old mac the screen doesn’t work. I hold down the “T” key and nothing happens. Is there another way to get the files??

What OS is your old G4 running? You may want to consider upgrading it first to leopard and then trying it again. Not sure why it does not show up.

I’m trying to transfer from an old G3 iMac running Panther to a new G5 iMac running Leopard. I got as far as the Disk Target Mode on the old one (which shows the globe) but it won’t switch to the FireWire mode. I read in Apple Help that if you had OS 9, you have to get FireWire 2.3 software. I’m still up in the air on this too. Please help! Thanks.

Trying to move an application from an old mac to a new one. Son spilled milk in old one, which is why I had to get a new one. The milk caused the firewire port to be inop. Is there a non-firewire way that anyone knows to transfer applications from one mac to another, perhaps via USB?

My G5 Mac died and I con not start it. How do I transfer the info from the hard drive?

I have just transferred all files and apps from G4 to Imac using the migration process listed above. The firewire needed a new adapter that I purchased at Mac Authority in Nashville. (6 pin to a 9 pin) The Imac works great. After the transfer the G4 no longer starts. Yet it will start in Target mode. How do I get the G4 to start up?

Earlier this evening (last now) a completed migration message appeared in my 2008-09 macbook 13 (source) and my 2009 imac (destination computer).

All in all a good 24 hrs passed from start to finish. Part of the reason I suspect (time) is that I mistakenly ‘allowed’ the mackbook to go to sleep..it dawned on me over night/I made the adjustment..it took 12 or so hours to finish.

As I remember there were about 65-70 GB of program applications, plus/inculding the iphoto file, mail, and browsing historybookmarks & browsing history…the latter migrated/programs not:

None of the program applications seem to have migrated (eg. the Adobe Suite, Iwork, MS Office 2008, Final Cut, etc.

I used my wireless network as the method of migration since my macbook doesn’t have a firewire port–just a couple of usb2 and an ethernet port.

The Imac HD reads 595 GB capacity and 514 GB available. The Macbook HD @ 232 GB capacity & 135 GB available.

Any help/direction will be greatly appreciated.

ted
Silverdale, Wa

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