Scary times...I've got a new Mac Mini, have to disconnect the old G5 iMac.

[Atman]

The ol' iMac has been a loyal hound, but alas, can't keep up. The new Adobe Creative Suite won't run on her old G5 processor. I'm spending half my day looking at the spinning beach ball. But there is something about pulling the plug that has me slightly freaked out. I've invested years in this machine, now I'm just going to unplug it and hope life goes on???

I pray to thee, O' Migration Assistant!

[cbayer]

1. I know. It's scary, but I made a migration a couple of years ago and

it went flawlessly.

Best of luck!

[NV Whino]

2. I went from a G4 to a mini

I still have the G4 and can access it wirelessly if I still need any thing in it. I actually just need to dump everything and get rid if the G4.

[freshwest]

3. Could I use a mini as a back up for my mac book?

[NV Whino]

4. Sure

You could designate it as your time machine or just do a conventional backup. Do it manually, file by file, or get a backup program.

[Wait Wut]

5. Scary? I friggin' cried.

Not to mention, using MA was a little like stealing my old Mac's soul. Kinda creepy, but damned awesome.

But, once it was all done, my new iMac and I bonded easily.

Life does go on.

[rocktivity]

6. Been there, done that nearly two years ago

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It took me twelve years to max out my Mac-Enstein, named so after I replaced its G3 processor with a G4 six years ago. Over the years, I added a super drive, an internal hard drive, and a video card so that I could join the Flat Screen Society. And it was a DUer in this very group who directed me to a site where I could get an emulator for OSX. Otherwise, I truly would not be where I am today.

Even the thought of just putting it out with the garbage was so genuinely painful I made a copy of the rainbow Apple logo, attached it to my new refurbished Mac Mini, put the white logo sticker it came with on the Macenstein, and wrote an epitaph. It really did make me feel better -- an attempt to transfer its soul, you might say!



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=233&topic_id=8465&mesg_id=8465


rocktivity

[rocktivity]

9. UPDATE: Transmitting from my new 8GB Mac Mini

The Time Machine transfer from my 2GB 2005 model went as smoothly as glass -- though I did have to go on a DVI cable run! Not a spinning beach ball in sight!


rocktivity

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. The transfer should go smoothly using Time Machine

which should be on your new Mini.

Back up your old machine to an external hard drive, plug the hard drive into one of the Mini's USB drive, and ask Time Machine to "restore" everything you want to transfer. In less than an hour, you'll have everything you want.

[Atman]

8. Yes, as I discovered!

I hooked the old machine to the new mini via Firewire, thinking i could use target disk mode. But they wanted to connect via wifi. SLOW! Estimated time was over 60 hours! But I have an external 2tb raid for Time Machine. Once I told the Mini to restore from Time Machine, things went smoothly.

[REP]

10. I transferred from a MBP with a dying hard disk to a new iMac - went just fine

And that was after transferring back and forth to a newer MBP, an external drive, back to mine, etc etc etc ...

Yours was probably less scary!