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Eriamjh · Jan 5, 2006, 08:44 PM

It doesn't work, does it?

A friend got a new iMac G5 and it won't detect his G4 Quicksilver running OS9 to transfer anything.

Does that mean he has to do it all manually over FW?

tooki · Jan 6, 2006, 03:23 PM

Yep. The assistant can only migrate systems running Mac OS X 10.1 or later, as clearly shown at http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/setup/ .

tooki

Eriamjh · Jan 7, 2006, 07:38 AM

I figured. I wish stupid Apple would at least give you a hint of this in the program. We had to transfer the old fashioned way: plain ol' copying.

tooki · Jan 7, 2006, 12:55 PM

Yup. I still think it's stupid that Mac OS X can't even import Mac OS 9 system preferences (e.g. network configuration, file sharing).

tooki

Eriamjh · Jan 7, 2006, 02:24 PM

Yeah, Apple is doing it's best to forget OS9 ever existed. Oh well. Soon all the "What, no classic?" messages will start flying once the Intel machines are announced.