Hi, all,
I have a somewhat esoteric problem and need some advice on how to do
handle it. I'm still using a 1GHz/1Gbyte PPC eMac running Mac OS 10.2.8
for much of my work and now need to move to 10.4.11 to accommodate a
new application that requires it.
The problem arises thus: some time ago I bought and installed 10.4 on
an external Firewire drive and have been booting and using it for the
occasional applications that required 10.4. Now I need to merge the
large amount of 10.2.8 data - and applications - that I've accumulated
with the 10.4.11 system into a single system.
Moving the data (mostly in Documents) is relatively straightforward,
and Mail seems to know how to export/import mailboxes in a usable way
also. What I would like to avoid is reinstalling lots of applications
and their associated files (e.g. iTunes and iPhoto).
The tools at hand: Carbon Copy Cloner, Migration Assistant (10.4
version), and of course Finder.
Other resources: several external Firewire volumes that can be used as
"scratch" volumes for building & copying systems to and from. Both
systems (10.2.8 and 10.4.11) are/will be completely backed up to
respective backup volumes before any potentially dangerous merge
operations (three cheers for CCC!).
So, experts, how would you proceed? (and many thanks in advance for
your consideration of my problem)
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Viejo Ramon
1st Mac: Mac II
Current Macs: Quadra 630, eMac (3,3), Mac Mini PPC 1.5GHz, MacBook Pro
Intel 2.4 GHz CoreDuo (mid-2008)
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