I've been given an iMac G5 which I plan to use with a DAW and plan to upgrade the std 80gb hard drive to at least 1tb and then hook up to a NAS for future storage needs and to allow me to copy stuff across from the original hard drive.
My question relates to some of the programs which were/are already installed which I don't have the install discs for ..
If I remove the original drive, install a new WD black drive with a fresh leopard install how can I copy across the programs I need from the original hard drive ?
Or should I do a time machine back up first and restore from that ( can you restore selected programs ?)
Garage band is one of the programs I want to keep and it didn't come with leopard apparently - only iLife, which I don't have a disk for.
Is it as simple as dragging the application folder across between drives ?
Sorry if these are dumb questions but I'm returning to Mac after pc and I seem to have forgotten everything !
Thanks
Steve [emoji106]
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My question relates to some of the programs which were/are already installed which I don't have the install discs for ..
If I remove the original drive, install a new WD black drive with a fresh leopard install how can I copy across the programs I need from the original hard drive ?
Or should I do a time machine back up first and restore from that ( can you restore selected programs ?)
Garage band is one of the programs I want to keep and it didn't come with leopard apparently - only iLife, which I don't have a disk for.
Is it as simple as dragging the application folder across between drives ?
Sorry if these are dumb questions but I'm returning to Mac after pc and I seem to have forgotten everything !
Thanks
Steve [emoji106]
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk