I have a new Mini and want to migrate user accounts from my G4 Sawtooth, running 10.4.11. I did not have a special 800/400 Firewire cable, so I thought I would connect the two computers by ethernet. (I also have Airport.) The Leopard Setup Assistant seems to demand that the old Mac also be running Leopard, which I do not want to do. (Technically, it is too slow; and I don't want to screw up anything in my wife's account.) It asks that I type a code number into the Migration Assistant on the old computer, and the Tiger Migration Assistant doesn't know anything about that.
(a) Should I just go get the 800/400 Firewire cable and do it that way? Does that still work between Leopard and Tiger? (b) An Apple Help Desk person did not think it was possible to migrate accounts from one computer to another (much to my astonishment). She only talked about transferring files. I know how to transfer files. If I were to just transfer files and not use the Migration Assistant, which ones should I bring over? I know something about Libraries and such, but I would think that trying to move all the bits and pieces from one operating system to the other might have unintended consequences. And then there are the Applications...... I look to your gestalt wisdom..... Wendell Mendell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
