Transferring from Power Macintosh G3 to MacBook Pro

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Transferring from Power Macintosh G3 to MacBook Pro

I've been looking up discussions that would answer how to do this, but haven't been able to find a way that works.

My G3 is operating on OS 9.2.2, it has FireWire ports (FireWire 2.3.3), an ethernet connection, and some USB slots, but I can't figure out how to make any transfer way work.

My MacBook Pro is operating on OS X 10.6.8.

The closest answer that I've found so far is the following:

If you are running 10.6 on your Mac OS X machine, and 8.5 on your older G3, there is no common protocol for File Sharing.

10.6 got fussier about Apple File Protocol, and only wants to serve files using Apple File protocol version 3 (available in Mac OS X 10.2 or later).

8.5 could connect to more modern Macs, but only up through 10.5. If you upgrade to OS 9 and turn on File Sharing and also "Enable File Sharing Sharing Using IP", you should be able to connect to the G3 from a later Mac, including Mac OS X 10.6.

If you can get to any version of OS 9, there are free downloadable updates all the way to 9.2.2, but you must download and install each one in order.

——https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2225837?answerId=10551034022#10551034022

How do I do this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 30, 2011 12:58 AM

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Answer 1

K T

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Jun 30, 2011 1:06 AM in response to oidumaztak

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Transferring files between two computers using FireWire - Apple

Try starting the G3 in FireWire Target Disc Mode with it connected to the MB..

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Answer 2

japamac

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Jun 30, 2011 1:18 AM in response to oidumaztak

With File Sharing enabled and connected to an Ethernet network, connecting the Macbook Pro to the ethernet network should allow pulling the files that you want without problem (save the problems that old software created files create).

I find the ethernet method to be a much simpler, and faster, method of pulling old files to the new machine.

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Answer 3

Jun 30, 2011 10:56 PM in response to oidumaztak

If you have trouble getting the Finder file-sharing stuff to work, there are some other methods, FTP and HTTP based, which can be tedious, but do work pretty well for transferring small amounts of data.

File-Transfer-Protocol: set up an FTP server on your OS 9 Mac with NCSA Telnet/ Better Telnet or MacSSH

http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~rbraun/macssh/

you can access the FTP server from just about any OS using FileZilla or other FTP clients, like CyberDuck, or the built-in Finder (might be read-only) from the Go Menu, Connect to Server and enter ftp://local.ip.address.of.the.G3...

HTTP: Personal web sharing is built into OS 9, you can create disc images or Stuffit archives of things you want to transfer and put them in the public web shared folder, then download to the OS X machine using Safari.

Then there is the hardware method, just take out the hard drive from the G3, and use a bare-drive USB adapter cable to the new Mac. Put the drive back in the G3 when you are done.

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