I've set up a new iMac running 10.13 for someone who migrated from a 2003 iMac running 10.5.
The new iMac rejected the customer's external USB time machine drive saying it was too old.
No problem, new user account, will migrate important items manually.
Nope. The 10.13 iMac will mount the drive but shows it has zero files on it.
Then the system went into endless beach ball mode and had to be forcibly powered down after a long time
and force-quitting/relaunching Finder wouldn't work.
Took the external USB drive (WD Passport) back to the 2003 iMac and it could no longer read the drive.
Resurrected the file system of the drive with a 2010 Mac.
Copied photos from the external drive onto newly formatted USB sticks. Plugged the USB drives into the new iMac to load the pictures into customer's Photos app and just like the external HD it showed no files on the drives and then locks up.
Have they changed something in Mac OS X since, I don't know 10.9 or 10.10 or something to not be able to read HFS volumes? Even if that were the case I wouldn't think it would stop up the iMac so much.
At this point I'm getting the files over by putting them onto a shared network folder on 2006 Macbook and copying them over the network to the new computer but it is laborious and stupid.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? Seems strange Apple would not maintain any backwards compatibility if they are using some kind of new file system, but then it wouldn't totally surprise me I guess.
Otherwise I'm wondering if it could be some hardware failure but I don't know what hardware failure would manifest this way.
The new iMac rejected the customer's external USB time machine drive saying it was too old.
No problem, new user account, will migrate important items manually.
Nope. The 10.13 iMac will mount the drive but shows it has zero files on it.
Then the system went into endless beach ball mode and had to be forcibly powered down after a long time
and force-quitting/relaunching Finder wouldn't work.
Took the external USB drive (WD Passport) back to the 2003 iMac and it could no longer read the drive.
Resurrected the file system of the drive with a 2010 Mac.
Copied photos from the external drive onto newly formatted USB sticks. Plugged the USB drives into the new iMac to load the pictures into customer's Photos app and just like the external HD it showed no files on the drives and then locks up.
Have they changed something in Mac OS X since, I don't know 10.9 or 10.10 or something to not be able to read HFS volumes? Even if that were the case I wouldn't think it would stop up the iMac so much.
At this point I'm getting the files over by putting them onto a shared network folder on 2006 Macbook and copying them over the network to the new computer but it is laborious and stupid.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? Seems strange Apple would not maintain any backwards compatibility if they are using some kind of new file system, but then it wouldn't totally surprise me I guess.
Otherwise I'm wondering if it could be some hardware failure but I don't know what hardware failure would manifest this way.