I find a strip of plugs from a universal AC adapter which has gone AWOL, each has two metal pins which are meant to plug in to a socket in the adapter’s cable. At this point I don’t care about a clean fit, so I grab the largest of the plugs and then go ahead and strip the wires from the Apple adapter and solder them to the pins. Incidentally, I have no idea off hand which is positive and which is negative, but as it happens when I get frustrated, I get impatient, so I opted to take the 50/50 shot at blowing something up. Success, the annoying ' BOM BOMMMMM' smacks my eardrums! Now I start poking around on the Mac to try to gather up all the files and compress them. Documents in general are notoriously compressible, so I figure I can get at least a good 70-80% compression on average. The problem, unlike Windows XP, with its default “ Send to Compressed File” context menu option from Explorer, this System 7.0.1 doesn’t seem to have any way to compress files, let alone right-click.

A friend of mine gave me his ancient and asked me if I could possibly transfer some document files to the PC platform. ' I replied, enthusiastically. Little did I know the ordeal that was to come.

The Downside You have to decide exactly what to transfer, and this method doesn’t automatically transfer any settings, so you’ll have to reset everything yourself (or transfer the files that store the settings). More than with the other methods, you’ll find that you have to reinstall various applications, especially those that require a serial number for installation. Moving Up, Moving On If you’re deciding whether to get a new Mac, don’t let the prospect of transferring your data hold you back. Apple’s Migration Assistant makes moving easier than ever before. And with any of the methods described here, you can reliably and quickly transfer all the stuff you want to save. [ Contributing Editor Ted Landau is the author of the forthcoming Mac OS X Help Line, Tiger Edition (Peachpit Press).

Then, Click Continue. Finally, on your new Mac, you have to choose the files, settings, apps, and other information you wish to transfer to your new Mac. What button to press to search for a word on a page mac. Then, click Continue. Now, you need to wait for some time until the migration process is successfully completed.

You'll need a newer Mac and OS to use USB (possibly OS 8.6 IIRC). Not too sure about reading DOS floppies, I only ever had OS 7>, and could usually read a PC disk. You might need to try a later OS. Having said that, it was common for PCs to not be able to read a floppy formatted on another machine. As for the MacDraw files, if GC can't open it, you could be at a loss there. Checking the list of files myself suggests that it can't.

• Select the From a Mac or PC radio button and then click Continue. • Launch Migration Assistant on the other computer. Your MacBook searches for available computers using your wired or wireless Ethernet network. MacBook Air owners, as well as owners of the current generation of MacBook Pro Retina laptops, will have to use either a wireless network connection or a Thunderbolt-to-Gigabit-Ethernet adapter (for a wired Ethernet network). If you’re migrating data from a PC, you must download and install the. • Select the computer with the data from the list, and then click Continue. • Select the check boxes next to the user accounts that you want to transfer from your older machine.

Question: Q: Transferring files from my old mac to my new mac using a caddy I would like to transfer all my files and applications to my new mac. The apple store took my 1T seagate hard drive out and suggested I use a caddy for the transfer. I have a hard drive from the old mac. Need to transfer it to windows 10. When I transfer it with copy and paste I can't read the files like pictures and that.I don't have access to a mac so I need.

An alternative is to put the software CD into your old computer, copy the application to a temporary directory, copy that to a flash drive, then install it on your new computer. If you can’t find your CD or you downloaded software directly onto your computer from the Internet, it might also be helpful to use a tool such as. It will look on your old computer for all the product keys for applications you’ve downloaded. Depending on how old your software is, you’ll probably have to upgrade it so it’s compatible with your new operating system. Check with the vendor for updates. In some cases, you might want to buy the newest version of the application, especially if it includes better security and more features than older ones. What about that old printer?

The Downside Many settings don’t transfer to the new Mac, including those for printers, iSync, Bluetooth, Energy Saver, Software Update, and your.Mac iDisk. Of course, re-creating these settings is usually not a big deal. In most cases, you can boot from your old Mac to see what they were. You may have problems getting Migration Assistant to work if the firmware on your older Mac isn’t up-to-date. Firmware is machine-specific software on the Mac’s logic board. You can modify it only with a firmware updater.

I am planning on helping an elderly friend transfer his files from his old iMac to his new 27' Intel iMac. One of the problems I face is that he can't. Startup your old Mac in Transferring files between two computers using FireWire. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over.

• Click Continue. • Enter your administrator password if prompted. • Click From a Mac. When prompted to select how you want to transfer your information.

To make your firmware current, download and run your Mac model’s latest updater from Apple’s. (If your firmware is already current, the updater will tell you so.) Clone Your Old Mac In this scenario, you erase and replace the contents of your new Mac’s hard drive. You can’t do this simply by copying files via the Finder. For one thing, doing so won’t copy OS X’s essential invisible files. For another, it won’t correctly transfer file permissions. Your Mac won’t start.

It seems that such transmission is feasible (through certain hardware, e.g. Adapters and cables), am not in the IT business, I’m a simple user.

Just watch this video tutorial to learn how to transfer files from an old Mac to a new Mac, For Dummies. If you're migrating to a new Mac that uses OS X 10.3 Panther or later, transferring your files from the old computer to the new one is a breeze. With the proper FireWire cable, you can use the built-in Migration Assistant to move all your files to your new computer. Click through to watch this video on dummies.com Related.

If you are using IMAP account send the file to yourself and it will be visible in your inbox on both the Mac computers. But keep in mind that the email attachment size is limited. • Go to Macintosh HD then Users • Click on Your User Folder and select Library • Now copy those files which you want to transfer or Hold down the Option key and drag the mail folder to your external drive. Note: (You can also try: Macintosh HD > Users > Your User Folder > Library >Preferences). Use an external drive In your both Macs, if the USB or FireWire connection is available you can copy your important data to an external drive to transfer your important data from an old Mac to a new Mac.

Migration Assistant copies only files newer than the ones already on your drive. So you don’t have to worry about accidentally replacing iMovie HD with an older version, for example. It also offers an option for transferring existing networking and sharing settings, so you don’t have to re-create them. Be aware that if you use Migration Assistant after you’ve created an account on your new Mac, and transfer over an account that has the same name, the utility will disable the new account and move it to the /Users/Deleted Users folder. The Upside Migration Assistant is the most user-friendly way to transfer a lot of data from one Mac to another. It replaces files selectively, so you don’t erase your new drive—and the new version of the OS that’s on it—in the process of bringing over old data. There’s also little chance of unintentionally deleting critical files.

I would not go this route unless you have other uses for the SCSI controller I think your best bet is to use the Ethernet. If the 650 has Ethernet then you could connect the two computers and 'share' the files using Appletalk. Then on the shared folder would appear on the new mac's desktop. You'd need some cable and a hub or switch. Likely you have this already It would be expensive to try and connect a SCSI disk too a Mac Pro.

Update OS via the AppStore 3. Install your AppStore 3rd party applications using the AppStore 4. Install non-AppStore 3rd party application installers using application installers 5. Update non-AppStore 3rd party applications 5. Replace your new User (home) folder with your old User (home) folder.

• If you are using local Wi-Fi, make sure both Macs are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Open your new Mac • Launch a Finder window. • Click on Applications in the sidebar. • Double-click on the Utilities folder. • Double-click on Migration Assistant.

I am getting advice on where buy hardware, where to find shareware, etc. The big issue is salvaging all of the writing and analysis tools I have already written that reside on the SE30. I have a SCSI port so the big trick would seem to be giving a Linux box a way to read the output, but what do I know, I just use the front end. Advice gratefully accepted here. T vfstype The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system type.

On your new Mac: • Open Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. • Click Continue. • When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer from a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk. • Click Continue. On your old Mac: If you started your old Mac in target disk mode or are migrating from a Time Machine backup, skip these four steps. • Open Migration Assistant.

There are a couple of issues which can affect reading old files on newer Macs. The first is files during transfers, just adding the file extension isn’t always enough. The second is whether your newer software can directly open the older file format(s). Some can, some can’t; in the latter case the files need to be converted or exported to PDF using older versions of the software. There’s no single program which will do everything. I offer through the Mac Museum for just this purpose, feel free to contact me directly if you’d like some assistance.

Leopard Cache Cleaner, Onyx, TinkerTool System, and Cocktail are now compatible with Leopard. Before migrating or installing software on your Intel-Mac check. Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users: • • • • • • • Because Migration Assistant isn't the ideal way to migrate from PowerPC to Intel Macs, using Target Disk Mode, copying the critical contents to CD and DVD, an external hard drive, or networking will work better when moving from PowerPC to Intel Macs. The initial section below discusses Target Disk Mode. It is then followed by a section which discusses networking with Macs that lack Firewire.

Im terrified if he/she doesnt know what they’re doing I will lose two years worth of design work. Hope you have some advice. I would greatly appreciate it. Kenny – you can’t connect the two computers directly by USB, but you should be able to use a PC Card that offers USB capability for the PowerBook 1400 to connect to other USB devices – hard drives, flash drives, etc. Note this will be a USB 1.1 adapter, not USB 2.0, which was not around during the era of pre-G3 PowerBooks.

You don’t have one. Therefore, you can use only a Thunderbolt connection.

If your drive does not show in the sidebar, quit Disk Utility and then reselect it from the menu. Once you have the disk selected, click on the 'Erase' tab on the right. Set the Volume Format to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'; for SSDs being installed as internal boot drives, select 'APFS' (Apple File System). NOTE: Rotational drives and Fusion drives can only be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The name can be anything you want, but should be a different name from the startup drive being replaced.

It’s very rare, and the floppy is long since worn out. The company is also out of business. My hope was to clone the hard drive so that (when) if the hard drive fails I’ll have a back up. I also have a Mac SE/30 Running system 7 Any thoughts as to how I duplicate the drive? June 14, 2011 at 4:41 PM Adam Rosen said Try reformatting the Zip disk first (in Mac format), and/or use another external SCSI hard drive to make the copy. However if you’re relying on software and a Mac SE for regular work, it would be prudent to seek out newer alternatives you can use. June 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM Firefly said I love all your advice and the fact that you are offering to those of us that don’t run right out and get the next new thing.

Or, months later, you've realized there is a fair hunk of old data that you now want on your Mac. Have you lost your only chance to use Migration Assistant?

To use the program, your Mac must be running OS X 10.5 or later, and your Android device must have Android 3.0 or later — something that should pretty much be a given with any reasonably recent Android product. Once that's in place on your Mac, just plug your phone into your computer, turn on your phone's screen and unlock the device, and then look for the same USB status notification described above. Tap the notification and select 'Transfer files' or 'File transfer.' The Android Fil.

You finally did it—you got a new Mac to replace your aging one. But before you sell your old machine on eBay, you need to take care of business. The older Mac contains a whole bunch of data that you’d like to keep. So how do you transfer it from the old Mac to the new? The answer depends on how much of the contents you want and how much time you’d like to spend. Use Apple’s Migration Assistant For starters, you can use the software that Apple provides for these transfer tasks. Originally called Setup Assistant, Migration Assistant is included on all Macs that shipped with Mac OS X 10.3.4 or later.

So my wife has an old laptop with Windows XP on it so I guess flash drive transfers is the only bet since I wouldn't want to format my external drive to use it ONCE. She has tons of iTunes so I worry that might be slow and difficult process to back up her stuff. I do got a 64 gig flash drive so that might help speed things up. Last time I did a system transfer was from my old performa Mac to the mini and I used 5 Zip drive disks.

If you have purchased apps from the Mac App Store, you’ll need to re-download them; if you copy these apps from one Mac to another, they won’t work. But for any apps you’ve purchased directly from developers, it’s easier to copy them manually.

So it's been a while. Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Fortunately, the process at this point is automated, so you can do something else while waiting for the install to complete. Once the OS has been installed, your computer will restart to the new drive and walk you through the final setup steps. Continue through the on-screen prompts until youre asked if you'd like to import user data from another system. This part of the setup process uses Apple's built-in Migration Assistant utility. If for some reason you skip the initial setup, you can find Migration Assistant by navigating to Applications > Utilities. The Migration Assistant will scan for available drives, showing you a list.