Migrating Issues

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dickbrillo

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I have a 7-year old Power Mac G4 867MHz (Quicksilver) that I want to migrate my 80GB iPhoto library (along with other files) over to a brand new 24" iMac. The library is on an 2nd internal 1TB SATA drive in the quicksilver. I have tried the following and failed:

1) Copy the iPhoto library to external FW drive (don't know why, I think the 867MHZ processor just can't move that much data--which is one file--it keeps timing out).

2) Firewire Transfer. QS is 400, iMac is 800.

3) Ethernet. File sharing only allows me to access the public folder. I want access to the other drive.

Does anyone have a solution? Can't I make a network and share that 2nd harddrive? I searched the whole web with no luck. Any suggestions would help. I guess next time I shouldn't wait 7 years. Ha!
 
What format is your external drive? If you left it as-is when you first bought it, chances are it's in FAT32 format -- which doesn't play nicely with Mac OS X in certain situations, like large file sizes, etc.

If you can, back up all data from the external drive and reformat it to HFS+, then try to copy over the library again.
 
The format of the 2nd drive is HFS+, and can not get the file to copy onto another drive. I even tried two separate brands with no luck.
 
Ok... by "2nd drive," do you mean the 2nd internal drive you referenced in your original post, or do you mean the external drive that you referenced in your original post and the drive that I referenced in my post?

Let's cut to the chase: are ALL your drives HFS+ format?

If you're using Leopard on the Quicksilver (you didn't specify), you can share any folder you want using the "Sharing" pane of the System Preferences.

If not, then you can try activating sharing on the new iMac, then connecting to the iMac from the Quicksilver and copying the file to the iMac from the Quicksilver.
 
Or, you could leave that iTunes library where it is.
Pull that drive out, install in an external case, and continue using iTunes with that same library connected to your new iMac.
Or, copying that library from the external drive may work. Perhaps your SATA drive adapter card in your Quicksilver is just not helping to do what you want with that big file.
 
Another option may be to get a 400 to 800 FW cable and try the classic Firewire Target Mode and Migration Assistant.
 
I did just what lbj said from a G4 DP to a new iMac and was amazed at how well everything worked. I really doubted it and was all set to spend hours doing this all manually, but I gave it a shot. iPhoto, iTunes, Mail, Address Book, iCalendar, expose settings, my bookmarks in two browsers, are all perfect. Even a super old install of Office 2004 works like a charm. Palm Pilot software - I still had it and it was all there! Everything, absolutely everything was perfect and too easy to seem real. Migration Assistant is solid. Give it a shot.

Warning. It is going to recreate user accounts on the new machine. If you created new accounts on the new machine with the same name, it will notify you.

Sadly, I miss the old days of when a new computer required hours if not days to get in shape...
 
All the drives were Mac OS Extended? The Quicksilver is 10.4.11. I installed another copy of Mac OS X on the 2nd internal drive, boot to that, and made a connection to the iMac with a crossover patch cable with sharing set to FTP. Opened Safari on the iMac and plugged in the ftp numbers and it worked! Later, I realized there was such a thing as a FW400 to FW800 cable. I tried that cable and it worked too, but not for the 2nd internal drive.

Not that I got my files off the QS I have another problem--my iTunes lost all my playlist!
 
How do I migrate iTunes from QS with MP3s on 2nd internal drive to the iMac with MP3s on an external drive? ...and maintain the playlists???
 
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