Copying everything from eMac to external drive?

[Altemose]

Altemose: Austria! If you don't mind distance I could check out what shipping would cost to you. I'm not sure if there's differences between European and American models but if yes, you'd have a European Model I guess!

Shipping is ridiculous in the US since they are so heavy so there is no way that it would work internationally. Good luck selling it locally...

 

[Weaselboy]

I do have a newer Mac, but how could it help me? You mean first to copy all the content from the eMac on the Mac Pro, then copy it from the Mac Pro to the external drive?

And it's 72 GB I have to copy, I thought to leave around 80-85. Waste of space already I guess?

I am thinking it would be better to make the new partition on the external on the newer Mac since I think we are both a little shaky on how to partition in that old version of Disk Util. I'm just scared you will make a wring move and accidentally delete your other data in the external.

On the target partition size.... it needs to be the same size or larger than the source partition without regard for how much data there is. So for example to do a Disk Util restore (clone) of a 150GB volume even with say 15GB of data on it, you would need a 150GB or larger target volume.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Alright, that's what I did and so far it went fine. Partitioned the drive on the Mac Pro, now copying from the eMac to the partition. The only thing I'm wondering is why it is so slow. Earlier I moved 6 GB of data from the eMac to another partition on the external hard drive, it took 6 minutes. So I count 1 minute per GB. It was just one big folder that I had moved "by hand". Now with disk utility it took me 50 minutes if not more to copy 6.8 GB.
What am I doing wrong? Is this normal? The connection is still the same, FireWire 400 to 800.

 

[Weaselboy]

Alright, that's what I did and so far it went fine. Partitioned the drive on the Mac Pro, now copying from the eMac to the partition. The only thing I'm wondering is why it is so slow. Earlier I moved 6 GB of data from the eMac to another partition on the external hard drive, it took 6 minutes. So I count 1 minute per GB. It was just one big folder that I had moved "by hand". Now with disk utility it took me 50 minutes if not more to copy 6.8 GB.
What am I doing wrong? Is this normal? The connection is still the same, FireWire 400 to 800.

Disk Util actually does a bit by bit clone of the entire drive rather than just a file copy, so it is slower.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Well, this seems to be harder than I thought. I had copied everything "by hand" to the drive. It seemed to be quicker, like you said. But a lot of stuff was also missing apparently. The size was not the same. I went through the folders and noticed stuff missing in fact. So I copied it again to the drive.

On my Mac Pro, when I had connected the external drive, I noticed the "User" folder was missing too. Yet, when I looked it up on the eMac (on the drive), it was there. On the Mac Pro the size also hinted, that the folder must be there. After renaming it on the eMac, it finally appeared on the Mac Pro as well. I don't get this and it's all very weird.

So I thought this was too risky and decided to delete everything and re-copy it, this time with Disk Utility - even if it would take longer.
After a while, it gave me an error and said something like… Not possible, directory not found.

What the hell? The eMac hasn't been gone to sleep (I set it to never go to sleep) and I never disconnected the drive either. How can this be? Now it only copied 20 of over 70 GB. And if I start again with Disk Utility, it will probably copy those 20 GB as well again. Which took ~3 hours.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

New Solution

Okay, I now tried something else. Doing all of this on the eMac is too complicated and all. I'd like to try to move all the files to the Mac Pro, then I can copy them from the Mac Pro to the external drive. That drive works better with the MP I have the feeling.

So I connected both Macs with a FireWire 400 to 800 cable. I started the eMac and hold the T key. Now the eMac should appear on the MP's desktop, but it doesn't. Anyone know what could be the reason for that? I don't think the MP is too new for the eMac.