"Restoring" an old "Previous local iDisk"?

[antmit]

Hi

Whilst doing some housekeeping of old external HDs used over the last decade (and uploading to online storage because I'm worried they're going to fail soon), I came across some "Previous local iDisk for <<my iCloud / MobileMe>> files.

These were obvious left useless when the option disappeared, and subsequently replaced with iCloud Drive. But, is there any way in which I can access what is on these local copies?

I had the crazy idea of installing a new VM with a copy of Leopard or Snow Leopard (Lion?) to see if I could get at it that way, but I would bet there needed to be the service running on Apple's servers to even register that properly - and even then, can Parallels run another Mac computer?

I suppose it's not the end of the world if the data is lost, and presumably I would've sorted what was on the live drive at the time, but it would be nice to know. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[bobesch]

I don't know, if or how you'll be able to access your copy of the local iDisk, but here some suggestions about how to install the appropriate operating system:
If you have a new Mac, that doesn't support Leopard, you'll need to run Leopard or SL as a virtual machine. VMware Fusion does support VMs for Leopard-Server/SnowLeopard-Server. I don't know, if Parallels does support a non-Server-version. VMware Fusion unfortunately does require 40GB fixed space for those early OSX-VMs.
If you happen to have a Mac that allows installation of Leopard/SL, then I'd assign a separte partition for the installation. 20GB for just the OS would be ok - 40GB is a more realistic size.
Well, but unfortunately I can't tell you how or if it's possible to mount that old local iDisk ...
Good luck!

 

[antmit]

I think I'll give it a go with a VM (Fusion if Parallels doesn't allow Mac ones) and see what happens. Thanks for your help.