I have an old Mac that broke about three years ago. Is it possible to retrieve photos from this computer?

Probably. How old is it, and can you describe what's broken?

Knowing its model number will help. There are dozens of Mac models.

It's very possible. How tech savy are you and how ambitious do you feel? The easiest way to retrieve your photos is to transplant the hard drive from your broken Mac to a working Mac that is compatible with the old one.

If you like you can email me a picture of each of your computers and I can put together a guide to walk you through it.

I need to know the model of each Mac to determin if they are compatible.

Actually it depends what computer it is and how it "broke". Without that knowledge its impossible to know how to help him. If its an old Mac with a SCSI hard drive it would be monitarily unfeasable to retrieve them unless it has significant value to him/her.

Have a nice day, buddy. 🙂

Brianna,

One more bit of information would be helpful. Knowing the name of a large city near you would also help us identify resources. Mac User Groups have names of individuals who still have older hardware available for projects.

The real question is if the compter died or the hard drive died.

Ji~m

Jim,

Brianna's been gone almost a month. I think she's gone.

Thanx, Allan.

Yes it is possible, the how depends on what model it is. You can open it up, get the hard drive out and buy an external hard drive box with USB interface so you can connect it to your working computer.

Good luck 😉