Dear macusers,
Is there any automated way to have all my �stuff� moved from my iBook G3 to my newer iBook G4??? I could always do it manually, but I'd hate to have to reinstall about 40 apps...
I could swear I saw some article in a mac magazine that mentioned something about that...
Safe way:
Connect the old iBook in firewire target mode and just drag apps from the old Applications folder to the new one. Most apps should work fine this way.
For your user folder (including prefs files that apps may need to function), create a new admin user on the old iBook. Log in as that user and delete your original user. (you'll be wanting to do this, anyway, if you're transferring the 'book to someone else)
OSX will offer to archive the old user's home directory, and put a disk image with it all in 'Deleted Users' that any user can mount and access.
Once that's done, connect the old book to the new one in FWDM again, and drag the old user's disk image over. You can mount that image and just move everything you need to where it belongs.
Quick way:
If you want to just duplicate the old system onto the new iBook, just use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the old drive onto the new one in FWDM.
However, it's likely that the new system has a newer OS on it than the older one, so that could be problematic. It's safer to do it the first way.
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