Q: How to migrate from 10.5.8 to Mavericks?

Thanks Barney. That might do the trick for the OP.

Will my photos in iPhoto 9 (8.1.2) migrate to Mavericks unscathed?  How about documents?  Will the restoration solve this?  Of course,  I do have old applications that I won't transfer (old version of GraphicConverter, for example).  I plan to buy a new version of that anyway.

If you copy over the contents of Pictures to the new computer, when you launch iPhoto it will auto upgrade your old library.

Yes, your documents and text files should all open in the newer versions that work on Mavericks.

Office 2004 for example is not compatible. You would need to upgrade to Office 2008 or Office 2011. Since Office 2011 is already three years old, you might want to get the subscription Office 365 since it will auto give you the upgrade when the next version of Office Mac is released. At that time you can decide whether to buy the boxed version or continue with the subscription.

See the App Compatibility Table to check what works under Mavericks.

http://roaringapps.com/apps:table

For bookmarks, you can bring over the Safari folder from your User's Library. Note the User's Library is now hidden.

How to enable the User’s Library folder

Thanks, Diane!

Thank you Barney! Seems to be doing the trick here, 10.5.8 to Mavericks. (BTW, only installs on 10.5.x OS.)

Hi,

Re your reply of Dec 15 2013 concerning transfer of data from Leopard to Mavericks, I have done exactly as you suggest. The problem is that I cannot open documents that have been transferred. I'm told I have to open them in Pages 09 which I don't have.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Jocaan.

Looks like others have encountered this, too.

Re: re-download pages 09, re-download pages 09