Migrate files tiger to lion

I need help! I have an old Macbook that I've been using for several years and just picked up a new Macbook Air. I've never bothered to update the OS on the old one, so I'm still running Tiger 10.4.11 How can I transfer my applications & files from my old one to the new system. Migration Assistant does not work. I've been looking at multiple postings for answers, but it's now day 3 and I'm ready to pack up the new one and send it back. Worst case scenario - is it better to just take both computers to a Mac retailer and have them sort it out for me? I would prefer to learn and do it myself, but am frustrated enough now to pay someone else to do it.
HELP!!!

If you haven't had this done yet, here is a way if you use Time Machine.
Back up everything from your Tiger Mac onto your Time Machine.
Plug it into your new Mac running Lion, open up migration assistant, you should be able to transfer everything from the time machine.
It's actually faster then using your network, I did Lion to Lion migration (over the network) and it took longer than Tiger to Lion migration using Time Machine.

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How long should it take a well-qualified server admin to migrate from Tiger to Lion...
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-VPN
-Hosting website using MySQL
-User & Computer Management
Considerations/Hurdles/Challenges:
-Tossing old G4 into garbage, upgrading Mini client to Snow Leopard, adding Lion iMac client to the LAN
-Fresh OS installs on the Mini and iMac
-Upgrading from CAT5 to CATE on the LAN (not it the walls - just loose cables)
-All new hardware must be sourced out (take some time to price compare)
-Must find a way to transfer data from ATA drives to SATA drives or Lion Server
-Company must not have any email downtime (MX Records to be modified on DNS Providers site)
-Servers hostname goes from "companyserver.company.com" to "server.company.com"
-ISP blocks some SMTP ports
-DNS Provider doesn't support TSL/SSL SMTP
-Implementing a switch into the network
-Implementing a new router (for firewall and NAT) from ISP
Upgrading to Lion Mini Server
-All the same services
-Using SSL
-Implementing Mobile Device Enrolment and Deployment
That should just about cover it. I'll add any other details/hurdles as they come to mind.
Can you guys give me your best guesstimate as to how many hours you think this job should take? I'd appreciate any feedback as to how long you guys think it'd take you to make this transition. I'm trying to plan, and we're going to be down-and-out, the boss NEEDS to know for how long.!
Thanks in advance guys!

It's about a gigabyte, so if you have a slow connection, it might take some time.
But - you shouldn't be getting the beach ball - that's a different thing.
Can you do open Activity Monitor, or is it stuck completely?

Migration Assistant - Tiger to Lion?

I'm installing a new iMac for a client soon which currently has Snow Leopard on it. I'd like to upgrade them to Lion, but before I do I want to make sure that I won't run into any problems with the Migration Assistant. I believe they are running Tiger on their current Mac... I know there was just a compatibility update for Snow Leopard, but will I run into any problems using it from Tiger to Lion? How far back will Migration Assistant be compatible?

Patricia W wrote:
I'm attempting to do the same thing from an iMac G4 and I can assure you it does not have a Firewire port and it does run OS X Tiger. I cannot find out how to use Migration Assistant but I can assure you that you can connect your computers via a ethernet cable.
As posted several times here, you cannot use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant via network from Leopard or earlier to Lion.
But all iMac G4's came with either 1 or 2 F/W 400 ports:
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Migrating from Tiger to Lion - Help!

I am trying to use the migration assistant from my old MacBook Pro with OS 10.4 (Tiger) to my new MacBook Pro with OS 10.7 (Lion). It says that I need to update my old MB's migration assistant software. Can I just connect the 2 MacBooks using firewire? Would that solve the problem?

I assume so! They should 'network' together, and then if you enable Personal File Share in Settings on your older MacBook, you should then be able to view the older MacBook's drive in your new MacBook's Finder window!
If this doesn't work, you can just set up 'file sharing' on your older MacBook, set your whole HDD as the shared folder, and copy things over via wi-fi.
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HT4889 Is it possible to migrate from Tiger to Mountain Lion????

It seems that the Mountain Lion migration assistant on a MacBook Air does not see an attached iBook G4 via thunderbolt/firewire as valid volume. For Lion there is an explanation, that it only works via Firewire. What about Mountain Lion? I think the migration assistant should be able to migrate from any ancient OS X version...

No, you cannot migrate directly from Tiger to Mountain Lion as described in HT4889 - Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant are both broken in 10.8.2 and the procedure in HT4889 does not work.
What you can do is either upgrade your iBook G4 to Leopard and then migrate from Leopard to Mountain Lion, or migrate from Tiger to another machine running Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion and then to your new machine running Mountain Lion.
In theory it is still possible to purchase OS X Leopard directly from Apple as a special order if you call them or something like that. Don't pay $200 to scammers on eBay, please!!
The nice thing about using Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant is that it really seems to do a good job of migrating contacts/calendar/email and everything else, although obviously you will need to replace all of your old PowerPC apps.

How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from osx lion to osx snow leopard

I have MacBook with osx Lion and I need transfer my user acount to another mac computer (Mac mini) because my MacBook was broke and I send it to service. On Mac mini I have osx Snow Leopard. Is possible to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from osx Lion to osx Snow Leopard?

Sorry, but there's no way to "go back" with Migration Assistant.
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Migrated files to new MBPro w/Mountain Lion, Excel Files won't save

Just received my new MB Pro and migrated files from my 5 y/o MB Pro to the new machine using Migration Assistant. Now, none of my Excel files on the new machine can be updated and saved. Help!!
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Network file sharing in Lion

I have some folders shared in Mac OS that was easily available to my other computers in network and guest OSs installed on virtual machine on Mac OS host but since I've upgraded to Lion sharing stoped to work "normally". I still can see my mac machine in network group but it no longer allow to connect as a "Guest", so I can only explore my shared folders having entered my Mac OS user login and password but doing that I get an access not only to shared folders but to the entire mac drive and all subfolders... How can I fix that and is it possible to use network file sharing in Lion as it was in SL and previously?

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There are multiple ways to move content from fileShares to SharePoint.
Step 1: Create the SharePoint Information Architecture - create a site collection preferably chose a document center template, create document libraries and folders as per the network folder structure in your organization.
Step 2: Map your File Share as Network drive in your client machine, and same way map your SharePoint website document library as network drive too. Drag and drop files.
Note there are 2 issues for this approach,
1) your document metadata will be lost, the last modified by will change to the account with which you have logged into SharePoint while copying, and the last modified time will be changed.
2) Its a tedious manual approach if you have lots of files.
Now for retaining the metadata you will need to depend upon a 3rd party tools ( or this codeplex solution: http://f2sp.codeplex.com/ (I havent verified that this works with Sp 2013 or not).
Using 3rd party tools has the advantage of retaining metadata and any issues with file naming conventions will also be taken care of most of the prominent tools which otherwise needs to be taken care by administrator manually. - Note SharePoint has file
naming conventions - https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/905231?wa=wsignin1.0.
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finally do read this awesome blog post by Sean Earp and Andre Kieft before starting of with the project. http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2013/11/04/migrating-file-shares-to-sharepoint-online.aspx
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Just got a new MacMini. Migrated files using Time Machine. However, now, on Launchpad, I see several Firmware updates that were relevant for the old machine, but not for the new one. How do I get rid of these updates? They won't delete!

Just got a new MacMini. Migrated files using Time Machine. However, now, on Launchpad, I see several Firmware updates that were relevant for the old machine, but not for the new one. How do I get rid of these updates? They won't delete!

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Recently Migrated Files - Mail Accounts Grey out Randomly

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I have successfully migrated files from G3 to MacMini, but MacMini will not open files created with ApleWorks 5.0.
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Migrate my Library to Lion?

should i have migrated my LIBRARY when i got the migration options and if so is there a way to do this?
i seem to have only migrated Applications, Applications (Paralells), Desktop and Dropbox and I am now realizing that i have data in the Music folder (my iTunes library) and in Pictures (my Aperture Library) which I am going to move to another HD along with my DOCUMENTS, however I am realizing that I did not migrate my library...
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If you haven't had this done yet, here is a way if you use Time Machine.
Back up everything from your Tiger Mac onto your Time Machine.
Plug it into your new Mac running Lion, open up migration assistant, you should be able to transfer everything from the time machine.
It's actually faster then using your network, I did Lion to Lion migration (over the network) and it took longer than Tiger to Lion migration using Time Machine.

I have a new Macbook Pro - trying to migrate files etc from my Macbook Air using a Thunderbolt Cable between the two. I follow the directions but the two computers never "discover" each other. WiFi connect works but 70 hours is a rough deal.

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I follow the directions but the two computers never "discover" each other - using a WiFi connection works but 70 hours is a rough deal.
(Mac OS 10.8.2 on both computers)

Are you trying target disk mode?
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10725
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