Comments on: Damn you Apple hardware! Damn you to hell!

By: A Fool's Wisdom

A Fool's Wisdom — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:28:35 +0000

R.I.P. Web Apps?…

Tara Hunt in R.I.P. Browsers may be interpreted as suggesting that the computing environment of tomorrow is the desktop of today. She presents her assertions in the context of technical issues she regularly experiences. Pains caused by poor experienc…

By: Damn, where’d I go? at FactoryCity

Damn, where’d I go? at FactoryCity — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:05:50 +0000

[...] So bah, Apple, this is all your damn fault. I blame you! Here’s a tid bit of wisdom for the ages: if you’re going to buy an Apple, make damn sure you buy AppleCare. [...]

By: Jasmeet

Jasmeet — Sat, 06 May 2006 09:26:56 +0000

Carbon Copy Cloner works for me. Boot your old powerbook into Firewire target mode, attach it to the borked PowerBook, and have Carbon Copy Cloner back up to it. I would recommend using AppZapper to Zap your existing install of Carbon Copy Cloner, just in case.

Also, I think an emphasis/italic has been left open somewhere.

Hit me with an email if you need more help =)

By: moritz

moritz — Sat, 06 May 2006 09:00:37 +0000

ok, should have read the first comment more closely. hehe. tom raftery proposes the same. however i hope i was able to give some more detailed information. maybe this even works without a proper new installation. the migration manager is in your utilities folder in the apps folder. please note, that this might not work to good if the old machine has an older version of the OS than the broken machine. (this is usually no issue, because most ppl need the migration assistant to get data to their new machines…)

moritz

By: moritz

moritz — Sat, 06 May 2006 08:56:18 +0000

of course if you have a system cd and there is nothing of value on the old power book, you can reinstall the system on the old one, connect the two with a firewire cable, wait until the installation manager pops up the migration manager. follow all the instructions, which basically means, boot the broken machine while pressing T. T stand for target mode, which lets you run another computers disc drive as external drive of your current computer. the migration manager will ask you which files to copy. you tell himwhat to do and click ok. that’s it. the machine will do the rest for you. of course there is the problem, that most likely your older powerbook has a smaller harddrive than your new powerbook. that means you might not be able to migrate all your data. however, if you migrate your data like that, it will also copy your apps with correct registration and all your prefs.

moritz

warning 1 // do not forget to cancel your itunes musci store log in on the old machine befoe deleting it. otherwise your music is still registered for the old machine. there is some way to fix that, but i do not know how.

warning 2 // even though you can repeat this procedure, when you get back the powerbook, and again when you get your next computer etc. it is highly recommended to install from scratch once in a while. if there is any broken preference files for exmaple, these files are also copied and the computer will be slower and buggier. usually it is enough to have an install from scratch every 2 to 3 years.

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Fri, 05 May 2006 23:51:09 +0000

Second the recommendation of SuperDuper. It’s aces.

By: Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks — Fri, 05 May 2006 23:09:20 +0000

SuperDuper is what you want. What i really recommend is getting a small external firewire drive and backing up to that with SuperDuper, but doing it straight onto the other PB in firewire disc mode will work too.

SuperDuper is much easier and quicker than CCC, and when I had a glitch with it, the developer responded with a patch by return of email – can’t beat that.

By: Chris Casciano

Chris Casciano — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:39:01 +0000

(warning, the following comes from someone who still has 10.3.9 on his old powerbook so YMMV)

I’ve been very happy with Carbon Copy Cloner myself after trying a few other things. After months of using it the only “issue” i’ve had is that its not smart enough to notice that the FW drive i have designated as the destintation isn’t on so on that rare occation it runs when things aren’t hooked up it tries to write to /Volumes/drivename anyway. Kindof a pain in the ass but its a very rare occation.

SuperDuper (already mentioned) is next on my list to lookat if CCC ever makes me not want to use it.

I tried to use lacie silverkeeper (again, on 10.3.9) but it never seemed to setup / execute like i would have expected it too… maybe i’m just a “dumb user”… http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/

By: Julien

Julien — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:25:30 +0000

Just an app to easily manage your disk (save, migrate, clone, sync…) on your powerbook (it runs well
on my PB G4 with Tiger ) : SuperDuper !

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

And a big hello from a french geek who appreciate your blog and your mind !

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:18:34 +0000

Won’t the Migration Assistant do that for you?

I used it on my iMac to copy the contents of my PowerBook across. It copied everything. Down to the Browser histories. If I started to type a url – the iMac autocompleted the uri – freaky!