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Q: How do I transfer data from Power Macintosh 7200/90 to a state of the art Mac today?

I have this old PowerMac, and want to transfer data to an updated iMac with OS X 10.8.5. How should that be done?

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Posted on Jan 18, 2014 1:37 PM

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Q: How do I transfer data from Power Macintosh 7200/90 to a state of the art Mac today?

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  • by A.F. Walton,Helpful

    A.F. Walton A.F. Walton Jan 25, 2014 8:48 PM in response to Einar51
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    Jan 25, 2014 8:48 PM in response to Einar51

    The short answer is to turn on file sharing on the PowerMac, and then connect to it by going to Go>Connect to Server on the new Mac. You can do this either by connecting the PowerMac to your network hub or with a direct Cat 5 connection between the Macs. The latter is likely to be a bit more complicated. You can also enable FTP on the new Mac and transfer data to it from the old one.

     

    The long answer is going to depend on what version of Mac OS the PowerMac is running, and whether I can remember where in the menus the various settings are.

     

    There are some other, probably faster options, but they require hardware you're not likely to have. If you have a USB-SCSI adapter, you can boot the PowerMac into SCSI Disk Mode and make a disk image of the whole drive (which is 1.3GB uncompressed, at most). You can use a SCSI and a USB Zip drive if you have one of each, but what are the odds of that?

     

    All of the above is assuming you can boot and operate the PowerMac, and that you have a monitor, keyboard and mouse for it. If any part of that is not the case, then you're going to need some additional hardware.