Snow Leopard vs Yosemite

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Snow Leopard vs Yosemite

I have an old Mac Pro circa 2006-2008. On one of the 4 drives is SL along with my old Adobe and Apple software; Photoshop CS3, After Effects CS4, Final Cut 2, etc. Recently, I purchased a Mac mini (late 2014) with Yosemite 10.10.

I would like to set two partitions up on the mini whereby one would be SL and the other Yosemite. Is this possible? Would it be possible to run a cable between the two computers without blowing both of them up?

Thank you in advance!

Mac mini, OS X 10.10

Posted on Mar 9, 2019 5:36 PM

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Answer 1

lllaass

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Mar 10, 2019 12:25 AM in response to novanut

Yosemite is the earliest macOS version the 2014 MIni can run.

You can connect the two Macs together:

1 by starting both Macs normally and connecting both to the same network and setup File Sharing. . You can also use Screen Sharing so that you can use one Mac from the other Mac

2 Connect the two Macs via FireWire and boot one Mac in Target Disk Mode (depress T key during startup and use the disk in the Target Mac from the other Mac.

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novanut Author

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Mar 10, 2019 6:23 AM in response to lllaass

I’m confused (I stay that way most of the time). Niel says no and you say yes. But then I don’t know anything about Emulation and not much about target mode.

If I use an external drive attached to the mini with SL I couldn’t boot to that drive by pressing the option key?

Thank you both for your replies

John

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kahjot

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Mar 10, 2019 10:17 AM in response to novanut

No: the 2014 Mini will never boot from a Snow Leopard drive. No one is saying that it can.

There are ways to run Snow Leopard in emulation, using software such as VMware Fusion or Parallels, but you would have to find and buy Snow Leopard Server to do that (legal issue). It’s not worth doing, even if you bought a Mini with the maximum amount of memory (16GB). Your old Mac Pro is still more capable and far more flexible than the Mini.

You can connect the Macs via ethernet or in Target Disk Mode.

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novanut Author

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Mar 13, 2019 6:34 AM in response to Lanny

Thanks Lanny,

I must have had bad information. I have the disk but not too sure how to load it into the mini. Could I use the Mac Pro in target mode to do that? Too bad the other apps won’t work.

Thanks again!

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novanut Author

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Mar 10, 2019 10:47 AM in response to novanut

Never mind. That was explained earlier. :{

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lllaass

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Mar 13, 2019 6:47 AM in response to novanut

Yes, You can use Target Disk mode.

You can also use CD/DVD Disk Sharing. All you need is both connected to same network

Use the CD or DVD drive from another computer with your Mac - Apple Support

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Lanny

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Mar 13, 2019 7:05 AM in response to novanut

After Effects should work too. You’ll probably also need to install the Apple version of Java 6. https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572?locale=en_US

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Niel

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Mar 9, 2019 5:42 PM in response to novanut

Not on that Mac mini model. It's too new to run Snow Leopard outside of emulation.

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novanut Author

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Mar 10, 2019 10:45 AM in response to kahjot

Thanks for your reply. Guess I was hoping for too much.

But can I connect a firewire 800 with Thunderbolt adapter to the mini and transfer files? Or is that another no, no?

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Lanny

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Mar 11, 2019 2:07 PM in response to novanut

I not sure about Final Cut 2, but your Adobe software should run on Yosemite.

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novanut Author

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Mar 12, 2019 6:15 AM in response to Lanny

Thanks Lanny,

My software wasn’t able to be used by Lion. I guess that means Yosemite won’t work either.

Thanks again.

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Lanny

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Mar 12, 2019 8:31 AM in response to novanut

Photoshop CS 3 works with High Sierra and probably Mojave. So, I’m not sure where you’re getting your information, but try https://roaringapps.com/apps

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novanut Author

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Mar 13, 2019 8:10 AM in response to lllaass

Thank you for that advice. I’ll try and report back.

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