I am upgrading from a G5 running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger to a new machine running Yosemite. The old machine and OS are so old, the migration doesn't work. Is it true that I can migrate to an intermediate machine running 10.6 Snow Leopard, and from there to the new machine?
In particular, I would like to migrate my mail, contacts and calendar.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Neither the new Mac not the old Mac will run Snow Leopard.
You should be able to migrate your mail, contacts and calendars over without using Snow Leopard in between.
Try OS X: Manually migrating data from another Mac - Apple Support
(I meant to say "migrate." I am migrating from the G5 to a new iMac.)
At best you can upgrade a G5 to Leopard 10.5.8, depending on exact model. If you want to upgrade to Yosemite, then you need to buy a new Mac.
I suggest you backup your files to an external USB HDD. Take the drive and connect it to your new computer and restore your files from it. Note, that you cannot transfer third-party applications since none of them are likely to work.
Yes, I have a new Mac. I'm trying to migrate to it.
I suggest you backup your files to an external USB HDD. Take the drive and connect it to your new computer and restore your files from it. Note, that you cannot transfer third-party applications since none of them are likely to work.
I copied my files onto the new Mac. Mail could not handle my saved mail; it gave an error. And Contacts and Calendar came up blank when I tried to Import my saved data.
Copying the files isn't the same as backing them up. For example, back them up using Time Machine. Then use Migration Assistant to migrate your Home folder.
I backed up to an external drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner, as Tiger does not have Time Machine.)
I told Migration Assistant to use that, but it says my stuff is too old to migrate.
What did you try to migrate? You should not have any issues with your Home folder, only. If you don't use MA, then use CCC and only restore the Home folder - Users/your_username/. In CCC you first uncheck the All box for the entire disk. Then scroll down to the Users folder and click on the little arrowhead/triangle to reveal the content, then scroll down to Users folder, click on the little triangle and then select the folder that is your "your_username." Set the Destination as your new computer.
If I were you I would first boot from your CCC bootable backup to do the backup restore, otherwise you will be restoring to the active startup drive, and that does not usually work well.
I did what you said. It repaired the Library; then, Mail, Contacts and Calendar wouldn't even launch.
Those are applications with OS X. They are not in the Home folder. And, what Library did you repair? I only provided a suggestion for transferring your old Home folder to the new computer. I don't think that's what you did. I think you did something else.
In my humble estimation, I did do what you said: use CCC to restore one home folder. I don't know why it had to repair the Library, or which Library. I don't know why the applications wouldn't launch.
But I do know this is never going to work: Apple says so.
I would like to get back to considering Migration. I would like to use Migration Assistant, first to a Snow Leopard machine, and from there to the Yosemite machine. Will that work?
I do appreciate your help!
Yours gratefully, Pen.
It will. But I would start from scratch on the Yosemite machine.
OK. I appreciate your help.
To be safe, I'd like to verify how to start from scratch on the Yosemite machine.
Is this correct?:
boot with cmd-R
use Disk utility to delete "Macintosh HD"
create a new volume (Extended, Journaled)
tell it to reinstall the OS
is that right? I don't want to delete the recovery partition.
migrate from 10.4 Tiger to 10.10 Yosemite?
