2 questions: importing IE favs' and G3 upgrades

[edesignuk]

So you want to get your IE favs from 9.2 and put them into your IE Favs in 10.2? ...Just to clarify.

[MacBandit]

So here is what you do. On your old computer if you have OS9 follow this.

Open up the system folder, open up the preference folder, scroll down and find the explorer folder and open it. Copy the Favorites.html and either email it or copy it by ethernet directly over to you new computer.

Okay now to install it.

On OSX open you user folder, open the library folder, open the preference folder, scroll down and find the explorer folder and open it. Copy or move the Favorites.html file to here.

Now that you know where your favorites are kept I always keep a back up of this file on hand just in case. I hate it when I lose all my favorites because I totally screwed the system. Though having to reinstall everything is not such a big deal if you have the little things like your favorites and your email and your email addresses all backed-up.

With the email addresses in OSX to back them up all you have to do is create a new folder on the desktop then open the Address book select all of your addresses and drag and drop them into the new folder on the desktop. It will create a bunch of vCards which are the new standard for email.

[MacBandit]

There is no reason to need to upgrade the G3 to a G4 to run 10.2. Though it will run much faster if you do. 10.2 runs reasonably quickly on the old G3 by itself. My old machine is a B/WG3 400 w/768MB of ram and it runs it fine. The only thing I recommend is that you have at least 256MB of ram if you're going to run OS X on it. Also if she is fairly new to computers definitely start her off on OSX it is very easy to learn for a new computer user. Much easier to learn then it is for someone who has used everything from the first Apple system through OS9 to relearn to use X.