[seishindo]

Hi,
I have an older PB running 9.2.2 and I just bought a new iBook which of course boots in X.
I am trying to figure out how to migrate all of my files from my old computer over to the Book, and I have yet to find info that will help me to do this.
Any help in any form would be greatly appreciated.

TIA!
charlie

[wataru]

Does your older PowerBook have FireWire? If so, connect the two computers via FireWire, then hold command+T during startup to enter FireWire target disk mode. The hard drive of the computer in said mode will show up as a removable FireWire hard drive on the other computer. Then just copy whatever you need over.

If it doesn't have FireWire then just get a standard (CAT5) ethernet cable and connect the two. Exchange files via built-in AFS filesharing. I suggest enabling sharing on the OS X machine and connecting to it from the OS 9 machine, because it's just a tad trickier to go the other way around.

[seishindo]

Wataru,
You wrote:
Does your older PowerBook have FireWire? If so, connect the two computers via FireWire, then hold command+T during startup to enter FireWire target disk mode. The hard drive of the computer in said mode will show up as a removable FireWire hard drive on the other computer. Then just copy whatever you need over.


The older computer only has USB, but I have the entire computer backed up to a firewire external hard drive.

When you say "copy over what you need" I am not sure how to do this since in X it seems you need to store the applications and documents in different folders, AND because I (for instance) will be upgrading to Office X and want to have all of my old Entourage files, my Word preferences, etc. show up in the new Office X.

Also, what about all of my internet settings, passwords for different sites etc. and also having my IE bookmarks etc. showing up live on the new computer.

What to do?

[lookmark]

If you go the file sharing route, you can turn on personal file sharing in System Preferences --> Sharing -- there's a checkbox for it.

Also make sure that AppleTalk is turned on in the Ethernet setting in System Preferences --> Network.

[wataru]

Originally posted by seishindo:
The older computer only has USB, but I have the entire computer backed up to a firewire external hard drive.

When you say "copy over what you need" I am not sure how to do this since in X it seems you need to store the applications and documents in different folders, AND because I (for instance) will be upgrading to Office X and want to have all of my old Entourage files, my Word preferences, etc. show up in the new Office X.

Also, what about all of my internet settings, passwords for different sites etc. and also having my IE bookmarks etc. showing up live on the new computer.

What to do?

Ok, so you'll have to use ethernet or copy from the backup FW drive.

Copy your personal documents into the appropriate folder within your home folder (like Documents for Word docs, Pictures for photos, etc.). Put any apps you need into /Applications (Mac OS 9). That's all there is to it. You will have to input your network settings by hand. I don't think Office X can use old Office preferences, so you'll also have to redo your Office prefs. What do you mean by having files "show up" in Office?

You can bring your old IE bookmarks over. Just put your Favorites.html file in ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer (where ~ means your home folder). I don't know where IE stores passwords; you might be better off just leaving them behind. I suggest you use a different browser in OS X anyway; IE is by far the worst one available. Use Safari or a Mozilla-based browser like Camino or Firefox instead.

[seishindo]

Hi Wataru,
Thanks so much for giving me a solid start!

I meant to say how to get my Word Preferences. to show up but now I understand.

I live in Tokyo. Are you perhaps nihonjin?

Arigato!
charlie