Looking to see if the entire hard drive contents in my old power mac g4 OSX 10.3.9 can be installed in a new mac so we can run pagemaker files still?
Thanks Ted
Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors), Mac OS X (10.3.x)
You can put its hard drive in an enclosure or use FireWire Target Disk mode, but very little if any of the software on it will run in Mac OS X 10.7 or newer.
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Thanks Niel- any chance there is a way to save pagemaker files in some way to get them to run on newer equipment?
Or, is there a way to install more juice into the old mac to get it up to newer speeds?
Thanks Ted
Pagemaker files can for the most part be opened by newer versions of Adobe Illustrator. You may want to check with someone who has a newer version of Illustrator to see if it opens all the information you need.
10.3.9 will not run on any Mac newer than April 28, 2005.
By newer I mean the hardware was revised after that date according to http://www.everymac.com/
2006 All Macs switched to Intel CPUs. No more Classic after that date for those new macs.
October 26, 2007 Mac OS X 10.5 was released and dropped Classic support for older PowerPC Macs.
July 20, 2011 PowerPC Macintosh applications for Mac OS X lost support with the release of 10.7. As far as I know there is no Intel version of Pagemaker, though Pagemaker for Windows could still run on newer Macs:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2741
Is a good place to learn about compatibility on newer Mac operating systems.
Thanks very much for the help!
It appears unless we cannot do what I wanted with pagemaker on a new mac or in adding more juice to the old mac.
Could you recommend an external harddrive that can save files from the 10.3.9?
We have an Imation M200 portable 320 GB drive that we use to save from our newer mac but it will not read on the old mac. Is there an older drive still available somewhere?
Thanks
Ted
To make the external hard drive able to work with the older Mac, you need to reformat it (and erase it) Apple Partition Map as described here:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3003
Alternatively you can setup a small network between your old Mac and new Mac, and share the content of the drive from the Mac that is able to read the drive. This tip explains more about that:
old mac files saved to new mac?
