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From: zoara on 8 Jul 2010 11:43
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's strange because my old G5 iMac was running OS 10.4.11 and I
>> transferred my files from that to this new iMac running 10.6.4 using
>> Tranfer Assistant without any trouble at all.
>> I just needed to buy a 8 pin firewire cable and "bob's your uncle"
> > it
>> was done in about 2 hours. No sweat.
>
> Well, the Firewire connection worked fine, in that the FW symbol
> appeared on the old iMac and bounced slowly round the screen, but
> Transfer Assistant told me that it couldn't find a copy of OSX on the
> other (old) iG5.

Could this be a PPC / Intel thing?

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From: Peter Ceresole on 8 Jul 2010 12:30
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Could this be a PPC / Intel thing?

Might be. But others seem to have done all right.

The other minor irritation is that I can't set a sig in MacSOUP. Sigsep
yes. Actual sig, no. I've done it before but it was so long ago that
I've forgotten how.

And the final irritation is Keyboard Maestro. I'm using v.1.2.3 which
although ancient runs well in 10.5.8, and is simple. Newer versions are
available, but they don't look so simple. I suppose I will have to
upgrade. It's not the money I mind so much as the complication.

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Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 8 Jul 2010 12:45
On 2010-07-08 16:43:45 +0100, zoara said:

> Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's strange because my old G5 iMac was running OS 10.4.11 and I
>>> transferred my files from that to this new iMac running 10.6.4 using
>>> Tranfer Assistant without any trouble at all.
>>> I just needed to buy a 8 pin firewire cable and "bob's your uncle"
>>> it
>>> was done in about 2 hours. No sweat.
>>
>> Well, the Firewire connection worked fine, in that the FW symbol
>> appeared on the old iMac and bounced slowly round the screen, but
>> Transfer Assistant told me that it couldn't find a copy of OSX on the
>> other (old) iG5.
> Could this be a PPC / Intel thing?

I've used Migration Assistant to go from PPC to Intel. Ah, but via Time
Machine and not the system disk...
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Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on 8 Jul 2010 13:12
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> I've used Migration Assistant to go from PPC to Intel. Ah, but via Time
> Machine and not the system disk...

Well, I'm doing it by hand and learning lots, all over again.

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Peter
From: Vivienne Dunstan on 8 Jul 2010 13:16
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> I've used Migration Assistant to go from PPC to Intel. Ah, but via Time
> Machine and not the system disk...

I've migrated from PPC to Intel using the system disk. Firewire cable.
Was a slight fankle because one computer had a Firewire 400 port and the
other Firewire 800 port, so had to get an adaptor. And it was 10.4 to
10.5. But it worked.

Viv
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