Please forgive my top posting as I'm on my phone. I've been wanting to research this myself.
I had 2 machines, a G4 running Tiger and an 08 unibody MacBook running I believe ML. I've had iTunes in the G4 since the beginning of time and backed up the phone and iPad to it (until I had to upgrade to iOS 7 but that's another story). I was planning on a new laptop in the spring and knew I'd have a drastically smaller HD plus I could no longer back up the mobile devices. So I read up on migrating my library to an external drive which went flawlessly. I could read and modify my library from either machine and back up again too. This was a couple of months before the new laptop. Again, I haven't dug into it too deeply, but even when I hook the external to the new laptop and select the correct library path, all I can see in my library are the songs I've purchased that are shared via the cloud. :( which is about 200 out of 1300, no playlists or anything else. I still have the old MB but I do want to wipe it at some point and it seems silly to have the tower and 2 laptops on my desk! So based on my experience, I'm not sure upgrading your OS will solve your problem, unless maybe you go all the way up to Yosemite? I suppose I could try that as well, especially as I want to wipe the machine anyway. Diane Sent from my Verizon iPhone > On Nov 17, 2015, at 3:49 PM, mkehoe <mirake...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Problems trying to use an iTunes folder (library) from Mac OS 10.5.8 > (Leopard) in OS 10.10.5 (Yosemite) > > G4 power Mac MDD 1.25 Ghz dual finally gave up due to a failing graphics card. > > My current challenge: my large iTunes folder and media are on a 750G drive > that was internal in the G4. When connecting it to the new Mac Mini (late > 2014) that I just bought, I can't get the iTunes application to connect to > the version of iTunes on the iTunes drive I was using in the G4, which was > running Leopard (OS 10.5.8) and the iTunes version that worked with that OS. > > I spent an hour at Apple's Genius Bar with three people weighing in. The > final consensus was that I may need to upgrade the iTunes folder on the > external drive to Lion or later BEFORE I can get the Yosemite (OS 10.10.5) > iTunes version to work. The theory is that the power Mac iTunes structure > may not leap ahead to the Intel OS easily. > > Last night I spent an hour on the phone with Apple Care, and still no > solution working directly with the Mac Mini and the drive which contains my > iTunes media from the G4 environment. > > I have an iMac from 2009 still running Snow Leopard. Does it seem like a > good idea to try to connect this external drive to the iMac and see if it can > read the iTunes structure? Should I consider an incremental upgrade to the > iMac I order to save my playlist structure from the OS 10.5.8? The library > is almost 700G, so I want to make sure I don't lose all the work put into > compiling the playlists. I backed up the drive last night. > > Any ideas? Most of the Apple folks don't have the experience of moving from > this older OS to the 10.10.5 system. > > Thanks for any ideas, > Mira > -- > -- > 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. -- -- 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.
