ITunes 10 on older mac
My (vintage) Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 (using Mac OSX 10.4.11) has ALL my music (both tunes purchased on the Apple store and my CD collection) on iTunes ver. 7.6.
Do I have to upgrade to Mac OSX 10.5 (or higher) in order to use iTunes 10?
Am VERY reluctant to upgrade to a newer iTunes version.
Why?
When I went from iTunes version 7 to 7.6, all the tunes purchased from the Apple store disappeared.
Fortunately, Apple helped me recover most of them.
Am very afraid of losing all or most tunes again if I upgrade iTunes version.
Also, any suggestions on migrating music collection to a new Mac?
Thanks!
Do I have to upgrade to Mac OSX 10.5 (or higher) in order to use iTunes 10?
Yes.
Am very afraid of losing all or most tunes again if I upgrade iTunes version.
Get an external hard drive that is equal to or greater in capacity to your internal drive Clone your internal drive to the external. Make sure you can boot from the external (must be Firewire connection for G series to boot). Once you can do that you can try anything with impunity because you can always restore your hard drive from your bootable external. Some day your drive will die completely and Apple won't have a copy of all your files to restore.
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