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.
There are a couple of solutions!

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How long should it take a well-qualified server admin to migrate from Tiger to Lion...

How long should it take a well-qualified server admin to migrate from Tiger to Lion...
For a small company, if the Tiger server is running on a G4 Tower:
-Roughly 500GB in user files
-Data resides on old-school ATA drives
-OD Master - Kerberized
-AFP
-Mobile Homes
-DHCP
-DNS (for 2 domains)
-FTP
-iChat
-Mail (non SSL)
-NetBoot
-Print Server
-SWUPD
-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?

I updated OS from tiger to lion.. my Dvd not functioning .. HELP--!!!

Recently i updated to os lion and after i di that my dvd drive stop functioning... anyone help please... i read it might be a software problem.. anyone knows what to do???? Thanks in advance.....

One of the reasons a brody and I are asking about "how you obtained Lion" is that you need to have the App Store in order to download it. The App Store is only available in Snow Leopard. The title of your thread states "I updated OS from Tiger to Lion". There is no way to download Lion from within Tiger (or Leopard for that matter). If you obtained Lion via other means, you may have an early build which may exhibit problems not found in the released version.
When you say your DVD drive is not working... Is it with one specific DVD, or have you tried other DVDs and they are also not working?
It sounds as though you have successfully installed Lion, but now your DVD drive is having problems. Do you currently have Lion installed and working?

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.

Migration from tiger to snow leopard problem on iMac

I got
Import Error
The doc is encrypted and can't be opened
error when opening a previous password protected spreadsheet with .xls file extenstion after migrating from tiger to snow leopard (10.6.3) on my iMac. Any help is appreciated. Maybe there is other thread talking about this already?

This is an error message from Numbers trying to open password protect Excel files, which it cannot do. Assuming you have Excel, use Excel to open it.

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:
iMac (Flat Panel), iMac (17-inch Flat Panel) - Technical Specifications
iMac (17-inch 1Ghz) - Technical Specifications
iMac (USB 2.0) - Technical Specifications
You'll need a F/W 400 to F/W 800 adapter, or a cable with a F/W 400 plug at one end and a F/W 800 plug at the other. Just so you know what they look like: http://www.amazon.com/elago-FireWire-400-800-Adapter/dp/B002TF0ZDQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie =UTF8&qid=1312562370&sr=8-1
Or, make a "clone" backup of the G4 on an external HD, with the Restore tab of Disk Utility (see #7 in Using Disk Utility), or CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, then connect it to your new Mac.

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.

Disk Migration from Tiger-based iMac to Leopard MacBook

A friend just bought a new MacBook (with Leopard). She wants to do a disk migration from her G5 iMac (running Tiger). Any issues I should know about when doing this? Or should I upgrade the iMac to Leopard before doing the disk migration?
Thanks for any input!

A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
If you are migrating a PowerPC system (G3, G4, or G5) to an Intel-Mac be careful what you migrate. Keep in mind that some items that may get transferred will not work on Intel machines and may end up causing your computer's operating system to malfunction.
Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3 or G4 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
Screensavers written for the PowerPC
System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
See also What Can Be Translated by Rosetta.
In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
If you migrate a user folder that contains any of these items, you may find that your Intel-Mac is malfunctioning. It would be wise to take care when migrating your systems from a PowerPC platform to an Intel-Mac platform to assure that you do not migrate these incompatible items.
If you have problems with applications not working, then completely uninstall said application and reinstall it from scratch. Take great care with Java applications and Java-based Peer-to-Peer applications. Many Java apps will not work on Intel-Macs as they are currently compiled. As of this time Limewire, Cabos, and Acquisition are available as universal binaries. Do not install browser plug-ins such as Flash or Shockwave from downloaded installers unless they are universal binaries. The version of OS X installed on your Intel-Mac comes with special compatible versions of Flash and Shockwave plug-ins for use with your browser.
The same problem will exist for any hardware drivers such as mouse software unless the drivers have been compiled as universal binaries. For third-party mice the current choices are USB Overdrive or SteerMouse. Contact the developer or manufacturer of your third-party mouse software to find out when a universal binary version will be available.
Also be careful with some backup utilities and third-party disk repair utilities. Disk Warrior 4.1, TechTool Pro 4.6.1, SuperDuper 2.5, and Drive Genius 2.0.2 work properly on Intel-Macs with Leopard. The same caution may apply to the many "maintenance" utilities that have not yet been converted to universal binaries. Leopard Cache Cleaner, Onyx, TinkerTool System, and Cocktail are now compatible with Leopard.
Before migrating or installing software on your Intel-Mac check MacFixit's Rosetta Compatibility Index.
Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
Intel In Macs
Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
Transferring data with Setup Assistant - Migration Assistant FAQ
Because Migration Assistant isn't the ideal way to migrate from PowerPC to Intel Macs, using Target Disk Mode or copying the critical contents to CD and DVD or an external hard drive will work better when moving from PowerPC to Intel Macs.
Basically the instructions you should follow are:
1. Backup your data first. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there's some other problem.
2. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
3. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
4. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
4. Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to Macjack for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.
Revised 3/12/2008

Severe Time Drifting after Migration from 10.5.8 - Help!

Hey everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out or shed some light on a very odd issue that came about this morning. I'm really having a hard time figuring out a fix.
I recently upgraded one of my old Mac mini servers to some new, (to me), hardware. The old server was a last-gen G4, and the new one is a late 2006 Intel.
The migration went totally fine, and all services are responding and working as expected. This server really isn't used for all that much, so I didn't anticipate any real issues in upgrading from 10.5.8 (PPC) to 10.6.7 (Intel). But after checking everything over this afternoon, I landed on a really weird issue.
I can literally watch the time progress slower on this server. Really. The seconds pass slower, and after about an hour, it will be up to five minutes behind all the other servers in my infrastruture. The server is setup to watch time.apple.com as it's NTP, and there's no change with another NTP server. I can grep the NTPd and it seems to be working fine. I've "started fresh" by removing ntp.conf and ntp.drift, rebooted, and had NTPd recreate them after setting new time and date preferences. That seems to have helped a *bit* but it's still persisting. Time zone information is correct. I've even turned off time sync altogether and it still persists, so it's got to be a local issue with the system.
Now, after some pondering, I believe I know what's causing the issue. The person I inherited the server from replaced the stock 1.5 Core Solo with a 1.66 Core Duo, which I've seen done plenty of times before, and never heard any real issues with. And I did physically check the upgrade, and everything seems to be perfect. The system sees both cores fine, and everything is stable. Except this very odd time/clock issue. This is the only root cause that I can possibly think of for it doing this.
And what's odd, is that if the time is wrong in the menu bar, and I go into the Time and Date prefpane, it instantly updates to the right time.
Now really, this isn't *that* big of a deal for this server. None of it's services rely on perfect time, (Kerberos and whatnot), but it's still rather annoying, especially for Time Machine backups. My main curiousity is if anyone knows how to increase the interval for NTP syncing with time.apple.com, so it'll check every hour or so, (I believe it checks every 12 by default. Correct me if I'm wrong).
TL;DR
After migrating from Leopard Server (PPC) to Snow Leopard Server (Intel), my system clock is running about five minutes slow per hour. Suspecting processor upgrade is to blame. How can I increase NTP syncing interval with time.apple.com?
Thanks in advance everyone!

You can add/modify the minpoll and maxpoll values in ntp.conf. This should allow you to set the time poll and reset a bit more aggressively.
The Xeon chips have been notorious for time skew. I've not seen the same with CoreDuo and Core2Duo.
You may also just want to periodically stop and start the NTP process. This can be down using systemsetup command: systemsetup -setusingnetworktime on/off
In corporate environments with Windows time servers that reboot frequently, I tend to automate a script that stops network time, waits a few seconds, and then starts it again. This will force a sync.
Hope this helps. Oh, and by the way, time is critically importation to Kerberos authentication and authorization from the client. Next the DNS, time is the most common cause of access denial. Keep DNS and time healthy.

Migrating from JavaHelp to Oracle Help for Java

Currently we have a product in which we have implemented Sun Microsystem's JavaHelp as the Help delivery system. However, after evaluating Oracle Help for Java we would like to migrate from Javahelp to OHJ.
My question is, how difficult would this migration be from the Development side? I have been reviewing the Oracle Help for Java Developer's Guide and comparing it against the JavaHelp documentation but I haven't been able to get a clear idea of how different the implementation is.
Thanks,
Theresa

Hello Theresa,
Thanks for considering Oracle Help.
There isn't much you have to do with your source content and control files. With the exception of the full text search index, the Oracle Help control file formats (helpset, index, map, etc.) extend the JavaHelp formats. So you can use the JavaHelp control files as is, or you can extend them with the Oracle Help extensions. For a quick overview of differences, see the following page in the Oracle Help Guide:
1. Go to http://otn.oracle.com/ohguide/help/.
2. Click "Oracle Help File Formats."
3. Click "Comparision to Javahelp File Formats."
To create an Oracle Help full text search index, run through the Helpset Authoring Wizard and remove the existing JavaHelp search view and have the wizard generate an Oracle Help Search index
on the following wizard page. For the Helpset Authoring Wizard doc:
1. Go to http://otn.oracle.com/ohguide/help/.
2. Click "Authoring Oracle Help Systems."
3. Click "Using the HelpSet Authoring Wizard."
Alternatively, change the helpset file by hand. For the doc:
1. Go to http://otn.oracle.com/ohguide/help/.
2. Click "Oracle Help File Formats."
3. Click "Helpset File."
Then run the indexer. For doc:
1. Go to http://otn.oracle.com/ohguide/help/.
2. Click "Authoring Oracle Help Systems."
3. Click "Using the Full-text Search Indexer."
On the development side, the APIs are different, but they are also very
simple. You create a Help object, add HelpSets, and associate topic-ids
with java UI components using the CSHManager as described in the
Oracle Help Guide:
1. Go to http://otn.oracle.com/ohguide/help/.
2. Click "Oracle Help for Java Developer's Guide."

HELP! - Cannot open old iPhoto library after updating from Tiger to Lion

I changed my Mac and now I am using Lion on MacBook Pro.
I am trying to open the iPhoto library that I used to have on my old PowerBook G4 with Tiger, but it does not work.
When I open the library, iPhoto says that the library needs to be updated and asking OK to continue. I press OK to continue and iPhoto starts to work though after hours (I tried to leave the mac to work for three days) nothing happens!
The library is very big, 39 GB!
Any help?

NowApple:
Sounds like a damaged database.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Migrate from Tiger (10.4) server to Lion server

I have a Tiger (10.4) server that I would like to retire and upgrade to a Lion server. Does anyone know of any documentation on how I can migrate user data and mail to the new Lion server?

bnowotny wrote:
I have a Tiger (10.4) server that I would like to retire and upgrade to a Lion server. Does anyone know of any documentation on how I can migrate user data and mail to the new Lion server?
Apple's official documentation is available here http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/resources/documentation.html the first choice is specifically about migrating.
You might also find this article useful, see http://www.macresearch.org/tutorial-backup-your-open-directory-server-using-laun chd and also my previous post on a similar topic which you can read here https://discussions.apple.com/message/16430995#16430995

Help - Migrating from Tiger to Leopard Server via Apple Maintenance Program

Hi, I'm to upgrade an Apple Xserve running Mac OS Tiger to Leopard. There was an Apple Maintenance Program purchased for this Xserve. I plan to do a clean install on the server, however, I don't know where to find Leopard's serial number or if I need one or if I can do a clean install via AMP.
This was the first AMP sold in my country I think and the VAR was a little clueless, it wasn't our plan to upgrade until now and I don't know who to ask.
I have the media, but it wasn't the one that apple sent, the VAR just made me a copy of a Leopard Server. I have the license program agreement, there it is stated the License Number (amp - xx -xxxxx format), the License Date, the Sales Order # and something label PO.
Could somebody please point me out how should I proceed? The server is being moved from its intended use so a clean install is no problem (and prefered).
Thanks in advance
Rafael

You should get the media directly from Apple complete with "xsvr-"serialnumber in an envelope in the (snail-)mail.
We have customers which didn't get the serial or DVD in the envelope so we had to contact Apple again.

Transfer iTunes Library from Tiger to Lion

What is the best method of transferring my Tiger iTunes library (9.2.1) to a different machine running Lion? Both machines are on the same network and I have the Tiger disk shared so that I can connect to it from Lion. Thanks.

I may have answered my own question. I found the following article helpful for making the transfer using home sharing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Any other suggestions? Thanks again.

"Controlled" migration from Tiger

Hi,
I would like if there is some kind of advice, resource, wiki or any other systematic source for helping me to migrate my old mac (MacBook with Tiger 10.4.11) to new MacBook with leopard. I know that there is so called migration assistant, but it probably offers only total copy of all junk and with all junk which is not exactly what I want to do.
I would like to SELECTIVELY move as some setting and data, such as network settings, Mail.app settings, rules, signatures and all emails, iPhoto with it's data, iTunes with settings and all music, iCal, Address book, Adium, Skype, Thunderbird, and some others. I expect as much control as possible, without pitfalls like resetting playcount to 0 on all my music in itunes.
I would not like to loose ANY settings cookies etc related to Safari, since there are sites where I am registered and I do not even know login anymore. It will be probably somehow connected to keychain too, right?
Is something like that even closely possible? Where would one go to find out, which things are used by which app?

Jirka Cech wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if one can select a checkboxes to copy lets say Keychains and certificates, Mail.app data, rules and setting, iPhoto library, iTunes library, iCal and address book, but not some unorganized apps, trials, downloaded data, temp files and other undesirable binary junk?
How would a programmer at Apple know what any user considers undesirable junk? Maybe half the Mac users I know use some other app instead of (for instance) Mail.app or iCal, so they would want those apps & their associated data & preference files to be included in the checkbox(es). Personally, I use iPhoto very little, preferring to store most image in ~/Pictures/ in my own organizational scheme, so I would want some checkbox options for fine control of what from my home folder gets migrated. The same is true for ~/Music/ -- only some audio files are in the iTunes library; others are intentionally not there to keep from cluttering that app with non-entertainment audio files. Many of the users I know do something similar.
IOW, the number of checkboxes would have to be very extensive to be of much use for fine control of what gets migrated, & even then I'm guessing many users would not see what they wanted.

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