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Feb 1, 2016 1:53 PM in response to jabaroby Niel,Use FireWire Target Disk mode and drag your files over manually. If the Mac Pro is running 10.7 or newer, it's unlikely that any of the applications from the G5 will be able to run on it unless upgraded.
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Feb 1, 2016 2:00 PM in response to Nielby jabaro,That sounds kind of messy. I'm not worried about apps, but emails, contacts, calendars, photos, preferences and other related files. These files are not all in one place, and finding and copying them all would not be easy or foolproof. That's what I want to avoid.
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Feb 1, 2016 2:10 PM in response to jabaroby Niel,Drag-copy your home folder on the G5 to the Users folder on the Mac Pro, log into a different account on the Mac Pro, and swap the names of the original and copied home folder.
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Feb 4, 2016 8:27 AM in response to Nielby jabaro,I tried that, and the permissions are all screwed up. It won't import Mail messages because the Mail folder has read/write permission for the other account on the computer. That's as far as I got, but I assume calendars, address book, and others will have the same problem. Not to mention all the System Preferences are gone.
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Feb 4, 2016 8:51 AM in response to jabaroby jabaro,I fixed permissions, and now Mail just hangs, doesn't ask to import messages, nothing.
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Feb 4, 2016 8:16 PM in response to jabaroby a brody,Make sure your Mail and Mail Downloads folders found in your Users -> yourname -> Library folder are copied to the new machine's Desktop.
Then use Mail's Import Mailboxes to import Mac OS X Mail from the new Mail application directing to the Mail the Mail folder.
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Feb 7, 2016 8:44 AM in response to a brodyby jabaro,After more fiddling and multiple restarts, it appears that most everything has migrated successfully. The only thing, so far, that appears to have been lost are some, but not all, system preferences. I assume some were just not compatible. It worked, but it was definitely NOT as smooth a process as using Migration Assistant.