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Moving to new Powerbook, how to move software?
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I am moving from an iBook to a new Powerbook. How should I transfer all the software including documents, application, etc? Can I clone the iBook onto a firewire drive using the carbon cloner application, boot up the Powerbook on the the firewire drive, and copy the cloned software onto the Powerbook? Are there some unique aspects of the operating system based on target hardware?
Ken
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3 weeks ago I did the same thing. I had my iBook drive cloned using CCC on my FW external drive. When I started up my new 17, I got a prompt asking if I had a previous Mac. I hit yes, plugged the external in and let it go for almost 90 minutes. Came back and it was done. Repaired permissions and all was good. It even copied the uptime record widget info from the iBook. The only thing that I needed to do was reinstall APE.
Other than that, it was a breeze. Enjoy your new PB (what are you getting?)
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I'm getting a 15", 1.5 GHz model. What's APE?
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APE is for haxies such as shapeshifter, silk, et al.
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Originally posted by Ken Jacobs:
I am moving from an iBook to a new Powerbook. How should I transfer all the software including documents, application, etc? Can I clone the iBook onto a firewire drive using the carbon cloner application, boot up the Powerbook on the the firewire drive, and copy the cloned software onto the Powerbook? Are there some unique aspects of the operating system based on target hardware?
Ken
Don't do ANY of this cloning stuff. New PowerBooks (i.e. ones that you buy today, with 10.3.5 on them) can migrate your applications, data, etc. automatically. No need to run CCC or do any cloning, at all. You just fire up the new PowerBook, it says "do you want to migrate?" You say yes, boot your old machine in target disk mode, plug it in, and it sucks all the data and applications off (obviously, it won't migrate old apps on top of new ones).
Voila. Takes 5-60 minutes, depending on how much data you have on that drive (i.e. 40 GB of Music takes a while 
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Originally posted by CatOne:
Don't do ANY of this cloning stuff.
I said I had cloned the iBook drive to the external since I had sold the iBook before buying my PB and that the transfer still went off without a hitch. As long as the external clone is bootable, it runs smoothly. I mentioned this in case his situation is as mine was.
BTW, 5 minutes of transfer? Mine took about 85 minutes to migrate about 40GB of data.
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That is what I will be doing when I receive my PowerBook. I'd rather choose exactly what I want copied rather than let Apple move everything.
Plus I have about 35GB of music/video to transfer from an XP machine with no firewire 
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I'm doing it the other way around, I got an older G4 tower off ebay and using CCC to copy it over. The question is, are there some unique aspects of the OS based on the hardware it's running? I ask because I've been having some difficulty booting off of it in 10.3.5. Versiontracker has a comment who says 10.3.5 broke the ability. Can anyone confirm that?
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Originally posted by ryju:
That is what I will be doing when I receive my PowerBook. I'd rather choose exactly what I want copied rather than let Apple move everything.
Plus I have about 35GB of music/video to transfer from an XP machine with no firewire
You should still try the Apple setup/transfer method. It gives you a reasonable amount of choice as to which bits get copied across and which don't. It really is a great tool. And you can always delete stuff afterwards, if you want.
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Originally posted by mr100percent:
are there some unique aspects of the OS based on the hardware it's running? I ask because I've been having some difficulty booting off of it in 10.3.5.
I had always assumed there were. When we went from G4 to G5 in our edit suite, I cloned the G4 drive to the G5 (using target disk mode) then did an Archive & Install over the top, from the G5 disk.
A bit more hassle, but it seemed the most straightforward way to ensure having all our files intact, plus a clean-installed OS.
The new Apple transfer tool seems easier though. That way you just keep the install that comes on the machine, and transfer all your files.
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