My G5 recently died. I bought and ancient intel. I tried using the Migration Assistant to migrate from the G5. I kept getting and error that the G5, running 10.5.8 I think, the most advanced system X needed to be upgraded. Obviously not being possible I took the G5 drives and put them in the Intel and I was able to migrate that way.
I still have problems with permissions. For instance the Intel won't let me into my music folder telling me I don't have permission. I'm fairly sure I'm using the system administrator account so I don't get it. There are other users in the user section of the system preferences but they are dimmed. Another problem is with my ancient Brother HL-1440 printer. It's extinct but it still works fine except not with this newer computer. I downloaded something called a CUPS driver and the directions. I enter the first command in Terminal and then it goes nowhere. There are supposed to be printer choices depending on the drivers installed. There are none. According to the documentation this drive is supposed to work with this computer and this OS and this printer. There error I get is there is no printer connected. I also have and Epson V300 scanner which is a nice scanner. It has control buttons one of which is the power on/off and another which automatically scans PDFs. That was really handy. Naturally this doesn't work now. I got the latest driver for it and the I have to use the software in a work around and the first page is always more or less square and every other page afterward is crooked no matter what I do. My late Father did a genealogical study of our family and I'm trying to scan the damn thing. There are over 150 pages and this is not working. Also this thing is running El Capitan. This is one of the early PowerMac how advanced system software should I upgrade it to. This is a legacy computer and I am used to running legacy software and I don't want to get things out of whack. My favorite computer was Digital Audio G4 which died earlier this year there was limited software for that thing, but keeping it contemporaneous seems to work. Thankyou Mark M -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
