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From: Michael H. Phillips on 1 May 2010 04:20
On Sat, 1 May 2010 09:15:39 +0100, I wrote:

> That was my thinking though it's only four years of cruft. I suppose too that

> PPC applications need to be installed afresh on an Intel Mac.

I'm thinking of taking the main HD from the G5 and putting it into the Pro
and manually transferring preferences and other data files from it to the
Pro's main drive as required. Does that sound like a plan?

--
Michael

mhphillips at gmail dot com

From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 1 May 2010 04:22
On Sat, 1 May 2010 09:15:39 +0100, Michael H. Phillips
<mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:40:04 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:03:22 +0100, Michael H. Phillips
>> <mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm undecided whether to use Migration Assistant or not.
>>
>> If you have a particular need to have a new blank machine (ie five
>> years worth of cruft buildup) then don't.
>
>That was my thinking though it's only four years of cruft. I suppose too that
>PPC applications need to be installed afresh on an Intel Mac.

Nope, they Just Work. First time you run a PPC app it'll probably say
"You need to install Rosetta to run this", but afterwards it's
transparent.

I love Migration Assistant. My current user profile started in 10.4 on
a 12" PowerBook, in about 2005. It's now on an i5 iMac.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
Ambiguity Man Strikes Again! (...or /does/ he?)
-- Eric Schwartz, asr
From: Pd on 1 May 2010 08:08
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> I love Migration Assistant. My current user profile started in 10.4 on
> a 12" PowerBook, in about 2005. It's now on an i5 iMac.

I still have a folder on my iMac called "SE/30" that's 45MB, which for a
long time was the complete contents of that Macintosh hard drive. Now
the folder only contains work documents from 1987-89, so I hope I never
need to boot up an old Mac.

--
Pd
From: Chris Ridd on 1 May 2010 09:57
On 2010-05-01 09:22:36 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

> On Sat, 1 May 2010 09:15:39 +0100, Michael H. Phillips
> <mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:40:04 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:03:22 +0100, Michael H. Phillips
>>> <mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm undecided whether to use Migration Assistant or not.
>>>
>>> If you have a particular need to have a new blank machine (ie five
>>> years worth of cruft buildup) then don't.
>>
>> That was my thinking though it's only four years of cruft. I suppose too that
>> PPC applications need to be installed afresh on an Intel Mac.
>
> Nope, they Just Work. First time you run a PPC app it'll probably say
> "You need to install Rosetta to run this", but afterwards it's
> transparent.

That's assuming it isn't already a Universal app. When I migrated from
a Powerbook I was surprised how little was still PPC-only.

--
Chris

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