Bought a New Computer

[Whaler]

My old iMac was over 4 years old, the CD drive died and it needed $$$ in software upgrades. I couldn't see dumping money into it so today I picked up a new 20" iMac. Wow, am I impressed.
I still have a bunch of stuff to try and move over from the old one but it's no big deal if I can't.

[gsmittle]

Congratulations!

My old iMac was over 4 years old, the CD drive died and it needed $$$ in software upgrades. I couldn't see dumping money into it so today I picked up a new 20" iMac. Wow, am I impressed.
I still have a bunch of stuff to try and move over from the old one but it's no big deal if I can't.

I've been trying to justify a new iMac or two for a while now....I bet that G5 is sweet!



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[kwgeorge]

Hey Dick and Scott, I am coming back to Seattle the whole first week of April. Depending on my schedule maybe we can meet up for coffee or something.

[leehljp]

With the firewire and maybe with the USB 2.0 you can hook your old computer up to your new one; start up the new one; with cables connected, Start up the old one and quickly press "T" and it will enter the target mode.

From there you can transfer everything from your old computer to the new. The first time, you do this (in some cases) it will ask you if you want to transfer the files, settings, passwords, keychains, mail accounts, bookmarks and other settings to the new computer. If it does not ask you if you want to do this or if you have already said no, then go to (on the new computer): Applications folder>Utilities>Migration Assistant and click on it. It will help you migrate all of the information that you want from the old computer to the new one. VERY Helpful!

[Whaler]

Ken
You are allways welcome here. Just give me a call.

Lee
I have some glitches in the old system so I will have to do a selective transfer. The main thing I want to save is the pictures I have saved on there. No! I never ran any backups. Learned my lesson.

[crokett]

Personally, I'd just crack both cases, pop the HDD out of the old one and into the new one as the slave drive. No muss, no fuss, takes all of 5 minutes and I can pick and choose at my leisure what I want off the old drive.

But I dunno - are you even allowed to open the case on a Mac? Does that void the warranty or sumthin?

[leehljp]

Personally, I'd just crack both cases, pop the HDD out of the old one and into the new one as the slave drive. No muss, no fuss, takes all of 5 minutes and I can pick and choose at my leisure what I want off the old drive.
But I dunno - are you even allowed to open the case on a Mac? Does that void the warranty or sumthin?

DeskTops, you can add in a drive without a problem. Add in Memory and cards OK, too. But you cannot added in a slave drive to an iMac in the way your are talking. You can put the internal drive in an enclosure and hook it up either USB or Firewire. Since the mid '80's Macs have handled drives in a manner that has been much much easier than the plug and play and slave drive concepts. No drivers ever needed, even back then. They just worked.

[russd]

I'd just use one of those USB flash drives in the old mac, drag the photos to it,then pop it in the new mac.

[JSUPreston]

Dick, the important question...what are you gonna do with the old iMac?