Hi all,
New here and not very computer savvy. Hoping I can find some help!
I have an older 27” iMac running 10.8. The computer is from I’m guessing around 2008. I want to upgrade this outdated machine to something new and I am not totally sure the best way to transfer over my pictures and videos. The machine is full of family photos and video from the last 15 years. The machine is still running with iPhoto and I believe it is too old to upgrade to any newer iOS. I don’t believe there is an appleID associated with this machine just a user name. My wife and I currently are using our Apple ids on our phones and MacBooks but this iMac has sort of been used for a storage for all of our old media (about 2tb worth). Ultimately I would like to have a new iMac, logged into my wife’s Apple ID and have all of this media integrated into her cloud (synced with her iPhone and macbook)
so I guess my questions are this.
- what is the best way to do this?
- can I bring over my iPhoto library and import it into photos with this much of an age gap between operating systems?
- I would like to leave everything else behind on this computer other than images and videos.
- will my old .mov files open with a new machine? Currently if I offload them to a hard drive and attempt to watch them the go through some sort of “converting” stage in QuickTime. If I open them on the old machine from the drive they open perfectly fine. I’m worried that what ever is causing this might create a migration failure with the files!
Thanks and would very very much appreciate any help someone may offer!
New here and not very computer savvy. Hoping I can find some help!
I have an older 27” iMac running 10.8. The computer is from I’m guessing around 2008. I want to upgrade this outdated machine to something new and I am not totally sure the best way to transfer over my pictures and videos. The machine is full of family photos and video from the last 15 years. The machine is still running with iPhoto and I believe it is too old to upgrade to any newer iOS. I don’t believe there is an appleID associated with this machine just a user name. My wife and I currently are using our Apple ids on our phones and MacBooks but this iMac has sort of been used for a storage for all of our old media (about 2tb worth). Ultimately I would like to have a new iMac, logged into my wife’s Apple ID and have all of this media integrated into her cloud (synced with her iPhone and macbook)
so I guess my questions are this.
- what is the best way to do this?
- can I bring over my iPhoto library and import it into photos with this much of an age gap between operating systems?
- I would like to leave everything else behind on this computer other than images and videos.
- will my old .mov files open with a new machine? Currently if I offload them to a hard drive and attempt to watch them the go through some sort of “converting” stage in QuickTime. If I open them on the old machine from the drive they open perfectly fine. I’m worried that what ever is causing this might create a migration failure with the files!
Thanks and would very very much appreciate any help someone may offer!