Thanks all. I ran out of time trying to resolve the problems before FedEX came. I will use Carbon Copy to avoid this in the future. Some of the backups (on either a external drive or to disk) I made in the past are okay, others look like either the file is no good or the drives cannot read the disk and eject them.
I was able to make a disk image of the Mac Mini using the network cables, the firewire port would not let me start up in Target disk mode. After I used the Disk utility to erase the HD, I tried to use disk utility to restore from a disk image but the image is greyed out and cannot be selected. Anyone have this problem? Does that sound like the image is corrupted? Thanks again --- In [email protected], "bordercollieaustralianshepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Transitioning from a PPC to a Intel Mac... > > The computer I have must be returned. The replacement does not ship > until the old one is in transit. Besides the logic board problems, the > optical drive does not work so I cannot burn to disk or Start up from > the disk. I did a disk image of the Harddrive but I am not sure how > this will work. The Mac I am returning is a PPC and the replacement is > a Intel. Tips, tricks, or any advice to avoid data loss? > > Long time ago I switched from OS 9 to a new Mac with Panther or the > first Tiger OS. When I set my Studio MX back up I had lost a lot of > the details, (sign in to server, folder locations). Many of my videos > were also corrupted or unable to play. I just did a search for > {macromedia + studio + MX + backup + data} but not finding what I > think I need. Is there a better search term? Or what (application > specific support data?) files do I need to pay special attention to? > > Last question after this explaination - I also coppied my entire User > folder, the Hard drive's System and Library folder to a external HD. > However not all data would copy and I have no idea which files. The > messege that I got was along the lines of "the file cannot be copied I > do not have the privilage". I was in Admin and had to enter the > authorization password, it just did not allow some files to be copied. > I recieved three of those alerts. Maybe they are locked? > > Because I cannot start up from system disks is this normal, that is, > some files are in use and could not be copied for that reason? Or is > this a wrinkle with the logic board acting hinky? >
