I got rid of my old PPC iMac G5 2 years ago, but kept the hard drive.
I have been trashing stuff, but I can't seem to empty the trash. I'm getting this message:
There is no clue as to what I was doing before that came up, so I don't know what to do to fully empty the trash. I do wish the system would give me some kind of clue as to what I was ACTUALLY doing/did so that I could correct the situation.
The hard drive is encased in a caddy and connected to my current iMac via a USB 3 connecting cable.
Any help would be appreciated. Be advised: I don't get on well with technical 'jargon'. The key phrase is: keep it simple, please!
I've had a look through the trash, and yes, there are items that were originally on the old drive such as Epson
printer instructions in the form of gif's, but what I can't find are the backup files that I trashed, i.e. the ones with the umbrella icon.
For what it's worth, when I bought my current machine, it was already bundled with Mountain Lion, but a few months ago, I updated to Mavericks (10.9.1) which you correctly identified.
A large quantity of the stuff I trashed were photos. Surely those shouldn't make any difference? In fact, some of the photos that were on the old hard drive, seemed to safely migrate to the current machine without any problems.
Admittedly, there were some applications that wouldn't open because they were created in Tiger. If I trash those, would they be the reason why I can't empty the trash i.e. Tiger applications in a Mavericks Trash bin?'
Here's a screenshot from the trash of the folder 'Applications'. Notice the greyed out 'No Entry' logo over most of them. Those were from Tiger-based creations. One final question: would it be any easier just to have the hard drive totally purged and start afresh?
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My iMac died after 8 years - blank screen, loud fan noise, no way to erase personal info. To recycle should I remove hard drive, and anything else?
Removing the hard drive should suffice. Use Google to find takeapart instruction, using you iMac's processor description in the search.
At eight years old, it is probably a G4 (the "desk lamp" style with an articulated display arm and white hemispherical base). So the search string would be "iMac G4 takeapart." If it turns out to be some other processor, simply substitute that processor (G3 or G5) for "G4."
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I'm concerned that my iMac, purchased 5 years ago, is about the crash and I can't back up my files and programs to an external hard drive via Time Machine because the computer freezes after only a couple hundred MB and gets nowhere near the required amount.
How can I save these files and programs if the computer hard drive fails or has to be replaced without the backup being able to be done? I need to do something quickly, but I'm not sure what I can or should be doing.Get an external hard drive, some good ones that I like are the OWC, http://www.macsales.com Mercury Elite Pro drives...they are very good and reasonably priced.
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After you have formatted and named the external drive, click Restore in the main Disk Utility window, drag the name of the old hard drive to the Source box, and drag the name of the new external drive to the Destination box. DU will make an exact clone of the internal drive on the external drive.
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Have you tried to follow all the instructions here:
OS X Yosemite: Transfer your info from a computer or storage device
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Deauthorize all computers
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Hi everyone,
Before I set up my new iMac, I transferred all my important files from my old windows computer (pictures, documents, iTunes etc) onto an external hard drive. I had no trouble using and locating my hard drive on my old computer, however I'm having great difficulty finding it on my iMac. The external hard drive is plugged in with all wires connected and correct. I've tried all the USB ports and I still can't locate it!
I just want to transfer everything from my hard drive to the iMac!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413#3
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Using the Hard Drive from my old iMac
I have just purchased a new 2.8 Intel core 2 duo iMac and was wondering if I could somehow use the hard drive from my old iMac.
What I have done is buy a case for the hard drive from my old iMac thus making it an external. The question that I have is that since it [the old hard drive] is running OS 10.4 will my new Intel iMac even recognize it.
I would like to somehow switch ALL my vast iTunes library from the old hard drive to my new Intel iMac without have to resort to making as many as 15 data disk. If such a thing is possible how do I go about doing so?
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HOW do I go about wiping the old hard drive clean so that I can use it thus?
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http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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