Milo Waye
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Q: Male to Male F/W to Thunderbolt Cable/Adapter Or Other Solution

Need a solution to copy files from my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 (OS X 10.7.5 ) on my late 2015 Apple Refurb Thunderbolt iMac. 10.7.5 isn't doing it, and can't, per Apple Support. Anything other than burning files to discs. Firewire adapters i've seen are female to male. need m-m to go from computer to computer. System Info states FW bus/built in hub is up to 800Mb/sec; Unknown Device is up to 400Mb/sec. Thanks in advance!!

Posted on Mar 23, 2016 5:47 PM

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Q: Male to Male F/W to Thunderbolt Cable/Adapter Or Other Solution

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  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,Helpful

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Mar 23, 2016 7:25 PM in response to Milo Waye
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    Mar 23, 2016 7:25 PM in response to Milo Waye

    There are three flavors of FireWire cables:

     

    regular FireWire-400 are six pin to six pin

     

    Firewire 800 cables are 9 pin to 9 pin (and a different shape)

     

    camera cables are Firewire-400 without the power leads, so they are four pin to four pin.

     

    to convert anything to anything, just buy the cables with the right plugs, and the cable does the conversions automatically. Or you can buy an adapter and use a standard cable, if you prefer. There is no electronics in the adapter -- it just has two different connectors on it..

  • by Duane,Helpful

    Duane Duane Mar 23, 2016 7:26 PM in response to Milo Waye
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    Mar 23, 2016 7:26 PM in response to Milo Waye

    Are they both connected to the same network? If you don't have a huge amount of files, use File Sharing to move the files. How to connect with File Sharing on your Mac - Apple Support

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Mar 23, 2016 6:21 PM in response to Milo Waye
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    Mar 23, 2016 6:21 PM in response to Milo Waye

    a USB thumb drive works if not too many files.

  • by BigGee42,

    BigGee42 BigGee42 Mar 23, 2016 6:25 PM in response to Milo Waye
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    Mar 23, 2016 6:25 PM in response to Milo Waye

    I'm pretty sure the 2006 Mac Pro supports Firewire 800 (or 9-pin)

     

    I would recommend you use a firewire 800 male-to-male cable (may be named 9-pin to 9-pin) and startup the Mac Pro in Target Disk Mode. There's instructions on the Apple Support site on how to do this. The cables are readily available online and at office / computer supply stores.

     

    If it doesn't have Firewire 800, you can use a Firewire 800 to 400 cable (9-pin to 6-pin) and follow the same procedure.

     

    Essentially, this will connect the Mac Pro's hard drive as an external drive for your iMac allowing you to copy files across easily.

     

    This link should help:

     

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201462

  • by Milo Waye,

    Milo Waye Milo Waye Mar 23, 2016 9:42 PM in response to Milo Waye
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    Mar 23, 2016 9:42 PM in response to Milo Waye

    Thanks guys. Appreciate your ideas. Just under 200GB of music files; and two computers with just USB 3 and USB 0 ports in common, and I doubt 3 is backwards compatible to 0. In just last half hour, I've found that Finder/Go To/ on one of two internal HD in my Mac Pro, has mounted my iMac drive, and am now copying files from the Mac Pro to the iMac. Ought to be done by morning. Thanks again!

  • by Duane,

    Duane Duane Mar 24, 2016 5:06 AM in response to Milo Waye
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    Mar 24, 2016 5:06 AM in response to Milo Waye

    In your original post you said "2006 Mac Pro" but you posted in the MacBook Pro discussion area so it is unclear what the older device really is. However both the 2006 Mac Pros and 2006 MacBook Pros have USB 2.

     

    USB 3 is backwards compatible with USB 2 and USB 1.

     

    They all have Ethernet.