06-23-2011, 02:31 PM
My wife's G5 iMac has been a bit temperamental recently and so I have bought a new (but old model) iMac, 21.5" Intel Core i3, 3.06GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB. The new iMac has Firewire 800 and the old one has Firewire 400 so a suitable cable was bought to connect the two. Started up the new one and when the option came to transfer details from another computer I followed the instructions. It said it detected a Firewire connection after starting the G5 in Target so clicked to the next stage where it says "Remaining Space: Calculating" and "Selected Items: Calculating" where the spinning grey thing in the middle of the screen just spun away for over 45 minutes until I thought this is too long. Phoned the shop to find out if there is something else I should know and they said that the G5 was too old to migrate to the new iMac. I'm sure the Apple Store seemed happy that it should be OK but just to test I connected my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard to see if it could deal with that (I wouldn't have carried on, just testing) but that also got through to this "Calculating" spinning thing and after 15 minutes I stopped that.
Question, this "calculating", should it take such a long time and so should I be letting it sit there for even longer than the 45 minutes I gave the G5 or could there be something else wrong?
Cheers
Paul
Question, this "calculating", should it take such a long time and so should I be letting it sit there for even longer than the 45 minutes I gave the G5 or could there be something else wrong?
Cheers
Paul