Migrating photos from Tiger to Mavericks

I'm attempting to migrate over 4,000 photos from Tiger 10.4.11 on my old G4 to my new iMac with Mavericks 10.9.1. I lose all of my keywords, events, etc. Is there any way to get around this? Thanks in advance for your help!

Does this involve iPhoto in some way?
If so:
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

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Greetings, All,
My wife and I have two new iMacs, and we are attempting to migrate thousands of photos from our old eMacs, which used iPhoto 4, to our new machines. We also have two laptops, a Mac Book Pro, and a Macbook, both of which use iPhoto 9. We each also have 320GB GTec external hard drives.
What is the best way to migrate our old iPhoto libraries into the new iPhoto to merge with the photos we already have in the new iPhoto? Thanks, very much, for any suggestions you can offer us! Take care, and God Bless!
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First you need to convert the iPhoto 4 Libraries to iPhoto 09:
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TD

Problems migrating accounts from tiger to leopard

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Archive the LDAP Database, do the upgrade/install to Leopard. Make sure your DNS config is the same as it was when the server was 10.4.11. Spend time on this and test this thoroughly. In fact don’t start any other service until you have this as it should be. Promote to OD Master, use the same details for the Directory Administrator (diradmin) account that you used before and restore the LDAP Database. All Users, Groups, Computer Lists, MCX and passwords should be retained.
The manual is correct in saying that Users passwords are not retained when exporting from WGM. However it should not be a problem (if the first method does not work) to select all relevant users and define a policy forcing users to change their passwords next time they login. Saves you the finger work. You could also inform your users what you wish them to use or the form the passwords should take.
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Migrate from tiger to mavericks

My friend has Tiger on an intel iMac and she is considering buying a new iMac, probably after Mavericks is out. Will the migration utility copy her files (mostly pics) from the Tiger Mac to the Mavericks Mac?

YUP! That is if Migration Assistant is also included in Maverick which no one except Apple knows!

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Transfer a photo from Macbook running Mavericks to iOS8 iphone

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Problems using Migration Assistant from Tiger to Snow Leopard

I want to scavenge files and apps from a Power Mac G4 (PowerMac3,5) running Tiger 10.4.11 before I turn it out to pasture. Most of them were migrated years ago to another system and have been updated and upgraded over the years, but a few apps have no modern equivalent. Now I want to do one last "pull" to pick up anything left behind all those years ago, particularly apps for which the install discs are in deep storage at best and possibly discarded.
I'm trying to use Migration Assistant in a nearly virgin Snow Leopard 10.6.8 system (installed fresh from 10.6.3 retail optical disc, updated over the network, lightly tested). It has a single admin account, no other user accounts.
Possible complicating factors: the Snow Leopard system is Server running under Parallels 10.1.4 on Yosemite 10.10.2 on an Early 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) with third-party USB3 controller in a PCI slot.
At present, I'm using a portable drive with both FW and USB interfaces as an intermediate storage (FW on the G4 to clone the system drive, USB on the Mac Pro to connect it to the virtual machine). SL sees the drive just fine, can copy files from it, and can even run apps from it. Migration Assistant sees the drive and offers to migrate from it.
Two problems:
1. No matter what user(s) I select for migration, Migration Assistant tells me it is a duplicate account. Proposing an account name never used before does not help. As a result, no user files can be migrated. (Obviously, I could copy them in other ways, but I think MA should do a more thorough job.)
2. Migration Assistant offers to migrate absolutely no applications. Even applications that SL will run from the drive cannot be migrated. (Some are PPC apps, but SL will run them via Rosetta. Others are Universal apps.)
Am I expecting too much of Migration Assistant?
Is the Migration Assistant shipped with SL Server (and updated through Software Update) not capable of running under SL Server?
Should SL MA refuse to migrate any applications from a Power Mac, even Universal applications?
Am I missing something obvious?
Is there key information I have omitted?

markwmsn wrote:
...It's not the twenty bucks, it's the principle of the thing.
Not sure what you meant by that statement. Although this "principle" may be more important to you than the twenty bucks, I know that my time is worth more to me than your twenty bucks!
What apps are you using?
markwmsn wrote:
I was able to install Snow Leopard (client) in a partition, and it was able to migrate users and many applications from the G4 clone on the portable drive. Some of the apps even run.
Then I went back to my SL Server virtual machine and tried to migrate FROM the SL client partition. Migration Assistant showed the same symptoms as importing from the clone directly (no apps offered, bogus "dup user" errors). I am forced to conclude that either (a) Migration Assistant 3.0.4/1.1 is broken when run on SL Server or (b) my new SL Server installation is broken. I'm either going to have to boot back and forth to run the old apps or find their installation media and reinstall them in my SL Server virtual machine.
Even worse, I realized that one of the antique programs I still haven't dug everything out of is a Classic application that had to be kludged to survive Y2K!
Thanks again, MIchaelLAX.
Anybody else have any clever ideas?
So, glad to see that Migration Assistant did work for you in Snow Leopard...
More clever ideas:
Install Snow Leopard client in Parallels and use its Migration Assistant:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
Here is a recent post I assembled for running Classic apps on Intel Macs:
With the newer Intel Macs, you have to run a Classic emulator such as SheepShaver, which requires you to extract the Mac ROMs from your older Classic Mac and then install Mac OS 9.
A related program is Chubby Bunny, which comes bundled with all of that included (google the term "Classic-On-Intel v 4.0.1 chubby bunny").
More information on SheepShaver:
http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup
and
http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/mac-os-9-classic-support-faq/run-macos-9-on- intel-macs.html
and more information about Chubby Bunny:
http://www.macwindows.com/OS9_on_Intel_Mac.html#092408b
and
http://hackthemac.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/chubby-bunny-old-virtual-machine.html
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Migration Assistant from Tiger Mac to new Leopard MBP can't see disk

Hi,
I just bought a new MacBook Pro and am trying to migrate from my Tiger-based (10.4.10) dual 1 GHz Mac (mirrored-drive door) desktop machine. The boot drive on the Tiger machine is actually partitioned into an emergency boot drive of a few GB and my main working drive ("Macintosh HD"). When I run Migration Assistant (MA) on my MBP (after connecting the 6-pin Firewire cable and restarting the Tiger Mac in target disk mode), the MBP sees only the emergency boot-up partition and not the main working partition from which I want to migrate.
I tried MA on my MBP connected to a different Mac with no HD partitions, and it sees "Macintosh HD" just fine, so I think all the new hardware is okay as well as the Firewire cable.
Any ideas?
-Eric

Thanks for the info. I do know something about this (being a HW engineer), but I would have thought that the IDE master/slave jumpers would affect all the partitions on the disk. Since my emergency-boot partition is visible, I take that to mean that the IDE master/slave jumper issue is a non-issue for me.
I don't know if this helps, but here's what Disk Utility reports about the disk (not the volumes residing on it):
Name : ST380021A
Type : Disk
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : ST380021A Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : ATA
Connection Type : Internal
Connection ID : Device 0
Partition Type : Applepartitionscheme
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : Yes
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 74.5 GB (80,026,361,856 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
Now, onto the partitions which I know less about.
Here's what Disk Utility says about the Macintosh HD partition:
Name : Macintosh HD
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk1s10
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:10
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : E6E9B335-60D0-3F06-97F9-2A9BAC522106
Capacity : 68.4 GB (73,411,137,536 Bytes)
Free Space : 819.5 MB (859,291,648 Bytes)
Used : 67.6 GB (72,546,123,776 Bytes)
Number of Files : 367,638
Number of Folders : 74,198
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 10
Here's what Disk Utility says about my emergency-boot partition:
Name : Clean Boot
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk1s12
Mount Point : /Volumes/Clean Boot
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:12
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 4A704075-200F-3CCB-B8ED-E7FEEDB655EC
Capacity : 5.9 GB (6,345,846,784 Bytes)
Free Space : 3.8 GB (4,133,232,640 Bytes)
Used : 2.1 GB (2,212,093,952 Bytes)
Number of Files : 76,846
Number of Folders : 19,664
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 12
I don't know how to determine from the above what the "first" partition would be. I don't know how to post an attachment here otherwise I'd show a screen shot, but when I got into Disk Utility's partition tab, the emergency-boot partition (called Clean Boot) shows up at the bottom of the space indicating all of the HD's space, and Macintosh HD shows above Clean Boot.
So what are my options? Can I repartition w/o loosing Macintosh HD (I'm willing to loose the other partition Clean Boot)? Any way to change the partition numbers?
I was thinking of cloning Macintosh HD to another HD and then migrating from that. Any experience with that?
Thanks, Eric

Network Printing from Tiger to Mavericks

I have an older printer ... HP 940c ... that works fine and better than my newer printers. I have this printer hooked up to my Mac Mini running Mavericks via USB. This works fine using generic or HP Deskjet driver from that computer.
How do I print to that printer over a network from a Tiger (10.4.11) computer? I tried using LPD, but couldn't seem to get it to work. The location name seemed to work, but not the printer name. I was able to see the Mac Mini on a menu using Windows printing, but I clicked on it and was asked for a username/password and my admin password didn't work.
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Greg -- check the printer URL on your Tiger machine in the web interface. My guess is that you will see the device URL contains "printers/Mavericks_queue". That is what is working here and the only way I can get it to work.
C G -- Try adding "printers/" to the queue name when you set up the Tiger printer. A screenshot of my setup is as follows:
As long as you are using a driver on Mavericds that is not identical to the one on Tiger (generic drivers may vary between systems), you will have to set up the Tiger queue as Generic PostScript Printer.
One thing not mentioned earlier in this thread is that printer sharing must be turned on on Mavericks and the printers you want to share must be selected on the Maverics machine.
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How to properly migrate data from Lion to Mavericks?

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Thank you.

Your most trouble free migration is using the Setup Assistant when you first turn on your new Mac.
At that point you have the oppurtunity to plug in the old machine for a seamless transfer.
"Setup Assistant opens the first time you start up your new Mac. It helps you enter your information about your network, and walks you through setting up a user account on your computer. If you don't use Setup Assistant to transfer information when you first setup your new Mac, you can do it later using Migration Assistant."
I do not recommend the Migration Assistant for trouble free.

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I have approximately 12,000 photos on a PC that I want to transfer to my MacBook Pro. My concern primarily involves the "date taken" info for each photo. Will that data transfer from PC to Mac, allowing me to organize my photos by date without having to manually date each photo?

Assuming the date taken metadata is in the Exif metadata of the file there will be no problem.
But why not import 10 to see?
Regards
TD

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