On Apr 10, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
> > On Apr 9, 7:45 pm, Wendell Mendell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I posted earlier about migrating user accounts from my G4 Sawtooth, >> running 10.4.11 to my new Mini running Leopard. I solved my first >> problem by buying a 800/400 Firewire cable and now can bring up the >> Sawtooth in target mode. However.... >> >> I have two hard disks in the G4, and my system is on Device 2. >> Target mode only mounts Device 1 on the Desktop of the Mini > > This happened to me with my G4 Quicksilver with two disk drives, my > primary drive running 10.3.9 Panther. Making the QS the target from a > then new G4 iBook running Tiger and then from an aluminum iMac running > Leopard gave me only the three volumes on my secondary QS drive. My > work around was to be running the Quicksilver and making the new > machines the target. I was able to do the quick transfers of the > Users folder. Migration Assistant was useless. I copied my email > folders to the desktop of the new machines along with the mail > preferences, as previously described in an earlier thread. > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/t/aabee6132bfc9e3e?hl=en > Then I imported the old mail into the new machines' Mail, along with > the preferences which gave me the email accounts. I also captured my > Safari bookmarks from the old preferences. > > Thinking back on this, I probably could have copied the Users folder > from the QS primary drive to one of the secondary drive's volumes and > let the new machines use the secondary volume. > > Al Poulin What I ended up doing was to clone my system partition to an external Firewire drive and use the clone with Migration Assistant. I did that before I saw the suggestion about unplugging the Device 1, which I might have done instead. I had the previously described problems with Mail and used the Apple support suggestion to prevent the app from ignoring Quit. Then I followed the recipe posted earlier here to reconstruct a slew of folders. I may have misunderstood the instructions and created empty folders into which to move the imported emails. I could have just moved the imported folders each out of the import box without creating the empty folders beforehand. It was my wife's mail account which has thousands of (not all necessary) messages. I also managed not to loose any new messages in the transition. I have had a couple of odd and disconcerting freezes with Leopard, but things seem to be basically OK. My scanner works and I have found all the printers. I now have to root out legacy files in obscure places that might create conflicts. Thanks for the help. I now regret that I have an Intel and cannot access the collected wisdom on this list! 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
