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First question is; what is the best way to move ALL the information off the drive of one iMac (G5) to another iMac (Intel)??
One is a G5 iMac with iSight and the other is an Intel iMac (white) 2.16Ghz.
Second question; Is there a way I can remove a scratch on the glass of the iMac Intel?
Thanks
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#1 - migration assistant, unless you want to MERGE info between the account on the new machine and the account on the old machine.
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Both iMac's will stay up to date, ie, email, files, etc.
They will be in two different locations in the city. One for the weekday and one for the weekend.
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If that G5 iMac is running Leopard (10.5, the end of the road for PowerPC), then you should be able to clone that drive onto that Intel iMac and just boot it with everything staying exactly like it is.
You could boot the Intel iMac from a Leopard DVD, boot the G5 into Target Disk Mode, use Disk Utility from the install DVD to "Restore" the G5 volume onto the Intel iMac drive (if you select the option to erase the drive before the restore, it will be a very fast block mode copy).
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boot from a 3rd Mac, and put the other two in Firewire Target mode.
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You could use CCC to backup the source Mac to the target Mac with the setting to archive any differences.
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If the Intel iMac came with an OS newer than Leopard, you can clone, but the Intel Mac won't boot.
You are better off using Migration Assistant, or booting the G5 in Target mode and importing the data you want to the Intel Mac via Firewire cable.
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A tip if you run into any permissions problems with copied files:
My daughter's school (all laptop) inadvertently changed her numerical user ID a couple of summers ago, but left both her long and short User names the same. The numerical user ID is hidden - you never see it. But if it doesn't match, permissions on those files don't match, and they won't open in under the new User account.
Changing permissions with Get Info did not work.
What worked was to move the files into a folder created by the new User, then use Get Info to apply permissions to everything inside that folder.
Good luck.
- Winston
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Because you are moving from very different architectures and probably different OSes, you may run into a incompatibility issues. Doing a mass migration makes that much harder to figure out what might be causing them.
If you aren't under time pressure and have both machines available. I'd start from scratch on the intel imac (nuke & pave) and install what you need manually. Test each thing out, make sure it works, etc. It may take longer but it will minimize the headache if you run into a problem. Chances are you have stuff on your G5 imac that you don't need any longer, so why bring it over?
