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Getting It TogetherBy Francine Schwieder |
You've bought yourself a brand new Mac and you're now running OS X. You've even gotten updated programs that run in X. But all your old files are on your old Mac and you want them on your new Mac. What to do?
Your new Mac will have an ethernet port. If you're lucky so will your old Mac (both of my old PowerMacs did). Buy yourself an ethernet cross-over cable from wherever you get your computer gear, and plug it into the respective ports on your two Macs.
Let's assume your old computer is running OS 9. First go to the Control Panels in the Apple Menu and select AppleTalk. Select "Connect via Ethernet" from the drop down menu. Next click the Options button and select the radio button for "Make AppleTalk Active." Close the window. Now go back to Apple Menu-->Control Panels and select File Sharing. Click the Users and Groups tab and make sure you are listed as a User, in fact that you are the Owner, and that you have the same name and password as those you selected when you set-up your new machine. Thus, you should have an account as Joe Blow (Owner), password "my1pass" (whatever you use) that is the same as the Administrator account on your new machine. This will greatly simplify everything.
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If this is NOT the case go to the Start/Stop tab and in the Network Identity enter your Owner Name and password as you have it for the Administrator account (the one you created when you first started your new computer) in OS X. Go back to the Users & Groups tab and select the owner entry, click the "Open" button and verify the Identity. Click on the drop down menu and select Sharing. Check the boxes to "Allow user to connect to this computer" and "Allow user to see all disks." Close the window. Now click the Start/Stop tab of the File Sharing window and then click the File Sharing button to Start.
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Next select the drive icon on your desktop that you want to share. Do a Get Info on it and select Sharing from the Get Info window's drop down menu. Check the "Share this item and its contents" box, make sure you are listed as the Owner and that the drop down menu for Privilege gives you both Read and Write, ditto for the User/Group field. For good measure click the button to "Copy these privileges to all enclosed folders." That should allow you to do anything you want to the files on the old computer. |
Now fire up the new computer, go to the Apple Menu and select System Preferences. Click on the Network icon and in the resulting Preference Pane leave Location set for Automatic, for the Show drop down menu select Built-in Ethernet and then click the tab for AppleTalk. Click the box to make AppleTalk Active, leave Configure set on Automatic. Go back up to the Show menu and select Active Network Ports and make sure the box is checked for Built-in Ethernet; if you had to change anything you should click on the Apply Now button at the bottom of the Pane.
Click on your desktop to put yourself in the Finder, so that the Go menu is visible in the menu bar. From the Go Menu select the "Connect to Server" option, click on the AppleTalk icon in the left panel, it will look and see what is connected and should find your old computer, which will appear in the right panel. Click on that computer's icon and then click the Connect button. You'll get a new window where you make sure the button for Registered User is selected. If necessary fill in the name you entered when you set up your account on the old computer, and enter the password you used. Click the Connect button. A new window will appear with the icon for the drive (or drives or partitions) that you gave the Sharing permission for. Make sure what you want is selected and click the OK button. The drive will mount on your desktop. You can now navigate that drive, select any and all folders/files you want, and drag them to where you want them on your new computer. The copy window will open if you've selected enough things to take an appreciable amount of time to move and you can watch the progress. It should go very quickly. Ethernet is fast!
