Well my old g5 1.6ghz bit the dust and I was finally able to upgrade. The only stuff I really want to save is the itunes music I have on there. The question is, how do I get it over? The g5 is running 10.2.8. Feasibly couldn't I just transfer all the music onto a flash drive and put it on the imac that way? Oh one more things, I don't have a monitor for the g5 tower... could I use the imacs screen for my g5? And yeah how would I do that. Thanks guys. Please excuse me for being so computer illiterate.
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Transferring stuff from a g5 to an i7 imac
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I think you would need to boot the G5 into Target mode and connect the two using a firewire cable. You should be able to boot the G5 without a screen.
Then migration assistant will pick it up. When going from my G5 to my new imac most of the applications I transferred did not work since they were PPC only versions so you may not want to bother transferring those.
Then migration assistant will pick it up. When going from my G5 to my new imac most of the applications I transferred did not work since they were PPC only versions so you may not want to bother transferring those.