Migrate itunes to PowerBook without Firewire

How to migrate iTunes from a 10.4 iMac to a 10.7 PowerMac with no firewire connector? Both Macs connected to home router via Ethernet. Airport on both Macs is available. Only interested in moving the Music to PowerBook.

Charles Clark wrote:
This is almost exactly what I did. I dragged the contents of the old iTunes music folder into the MacBook iTunes icon in the Dock.
You should have dragged /Music/iTunes/ folder from old computer to /Music on new compouter.
You just dragged the media over and have created a new iTunes library.
Not a problem but this would have given you the same iTunes library with everything intact, exactly as it was on your old computer (Playlists, ratings, date added, coments, artwork, etc.)

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Can anyone suggest a way of using the Migration Assistant without firewire?
The firewire port on my iBook is fried and that's where my life is stored. I just got my new iMac and wanted to use Migration Assistant to move everything over to it. Without firewire is there some other way of moving all my data except piece by piece?

No, not that - but it is a useful app. Carbon Copy Cloner has good feedback too(mostly - some users here reckon it's rotten) - & it's free/donationware(?) I believe.
Being firewire-less, using such an app would still be slow & you'd have the same doubts about what to copy/overwrite as doing it totally manually.
Most of your home folder can likely be straight-forward copy/replaced - but I think I'd be more careful about the library folder & only copy folders from that which don't exist on the new mac. Bring the home/library/mail folder over complete - but just leave it on the desktop & use mail-file-import mailboxes.
Addressbook : I'd use file-export vcard after selecting all the addresses on the old mac - then import on the new. Unless you've got directories to retain, in which case copying the home/library/addressbook folder would retain these.
Before replacing any file/folder on the imac - close all applications & keep a backup of the file/folder in case things go pear shaped.
for apps - select the ones that don't exist on yr imac - & drag 'em over (all at once) into the apps folder on the imac. Some may not work unless you run an installer for them on the imac - but likely most will. Come right back if any apps have specific setups that you don't want to have to go through manually.
It can be easier to copy the whole hd over first - put it in a folder so you can't get confused - then you can leave the slow transfer to run. After that's finished, you just move what you want from the copy you made on the imac - which will be much much faster. It makes it seem much less frustrating imo.
Actually - don't drag/drop the hd icon - make a folder on the imac & drag the apps,library,users & system folders over into the folder you made.
anyway - don't trash, keep original imac files/folders somewhere until you're happy that everything works right. Then eventually trash them and the HD copy.

ITunes opens but without any text showing. Drop down menus have text but not the app itself. I have a Mac Powerbook Pro running Windows XP under Boot Camp.

Running under Windows XP, a few upgrades ago iTunes started opening without any text showing in the application. Clicking on PLAY will play music but no text shows to indicate what's playing and no text to show music library. Drop down windows show text but not the app itself.
Subsequent upgrades and reinstalls have not corrected the problem, When I run under iOS (Snow Leopard), iTunes opens with text and runs correctly.
Help!

Because I created FAT32 partition using Boot Camp tool few days ago I installed my custom copy of Windows XP with SP3, IE7 and WMP10 integrated using nLite (for WMP10 integration use RVM Integrator). I did not use Boot Camp tool this time - I just booted CD using Option key. Then I installed Boot Camp 2.0 drivers you can find on Mac Disk 1. After this I installed Boot Camp drivers 2.1 update. In Add or remove Programs I checked drivers - I uninstalled old drivers which call identical, but you can skip this. Everything works fine BTW it is better to format your partition to NTFS - you have much less disk errors, you do not waste time for disk errors scans during Windows startup, your data are much more safe. If you need NTFS write permissions use great tool Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX or open source NTFS driver.
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No Hard Drive Or Volume Icon In Powerbook G4 Firewire (aluminium) Disk Utilities: Reads Error: No Valid Packages (-9997)

Whilst performing a zero/erase install on my Powerbook G4 Firewire (aluminium) with an OSX Tiger install disk (Tiger was the OSX i had erased), I had to force quite the installer as it appeared to be stuck on the Chinese script install section. I crashed the Powerbook down using the power button method. Now, when i power up the computer, it stays on the grey screen and just beeps at me. If i insert the install disks (both OSX Tiger or the original Powerbook Panther ones) there is no volume found during the install process. In disk utilities no hard drive icon or volumes appear in the left hand list, just 2 headings regarding the OSX install disk. I have clicked 'Verify Disk Permissions' on these headings and receive this message in the action box: Error: No Valid Packages (-9997). All other options in disk utilities are not available to use (partitions section etc), as there is no hard drive recognized to perform anything on. I presume my erase install has wiped out my previous OSX Tiger without installing some essential on the Powerbook (receipts perhaps?). My Powerbook was working 100% before this install attempt. It's a very lightly used machine with no noises/whirrs coming from the hard drive that would suggest failure of some kind. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Many thanks for your advice old comm guy.
I have run the Hardware Test as supplied with the Powerbooks install disks and everything has passed. I presume i can put my mind at rest about it being a problem in any of those departments. I have been browsing for a couple of weeks now and think my problem could be a loss in receipts/permissions somewhere. I remember looking for a lost file awhile back using a hard drive search programme through Terminal. It filled my hard drive almost to the maximum with unwanted retrieved files, it took me hours to erase all this again (never found the document i was looking for either). Perhaps a receipt was erased/trashed at this time?. Sometime later (prob weeks) i performed a fresh OSX install to give me an uncluttered faster running machine (I do this once a year). I zero erased the hard drive (including free space) and it was during this install that i had to force quit. It seemed to be stuck loading the Chinese Script so i had no option. After this the problem as described above has been persistent. Is there a way to restore receipts/permissions through Terminal or something like that?. Or maybe a procedure that one has to do when installing a new hard drive?. A step by step guide from someone would be a real help as i am not really confident using these advanced procedures.

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We've finally decided to upgrade from our trusty Power Mac G4 tower (10.4.11) we've had since 2002 to a new 21.5-inch iMac. It arrives tomorrow.
I'm already anticipating problems migrating to the new system, tho'. The 20Gb startup disk seemed science-fiction large in 2002, but obviously we quickly ran out of space. Currently, our iPhoto library lives on a second internal SATA HD, and iTunes on an external FireWire drive.
What's going to be the best way to migrate all that stuff to the new iMac's 2Tb (science fiction numbers, again!) drive? Will the migration assistant find the iPhoto and iTunes files on those other disks?

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Do the same for iPhoto File > Add to Library while your connected to the G4.
Just for clarity's sake, you're talking about selecting the iTunes/iPhoto media folders, right? Not selecting each file individually, I hope.
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I have 2 macs. 15" Intel iMac and a 12" G4 powerbook. All of my apps are mostly the same on both machines. I have idisk for storage and what not. My question is this; can I use a fire wire cable and make my powerbook kinda like my portable iMac. What I ready want to do this transfer my iphoto, itunes, docs, and imovies over there too. Once I do that is there a way that i can continue to do this on a monthly basis to keep my powerbook updated with m iMac. hope this all make sense.
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I migrated iTunes from an iMac to a new MacBook and found that some songs that were purchased under an old AppleID are not authorized to play on the new computer. (I changed my AppleID over a year ago when I switched ISP's so the old email no longer exists.) Songs that I purchased under my current ID play without any problem. But when I try to play songs that were purchased under the old ID, iTunes prompts me to authorize them. Authorization fails because the ID "cannot be found". Authorizing the songs with my current ID doesn't help either.
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