PPC IMac G5 w/ OSX 10.4.11

I'm actually going to be selling my iMac having upgraded recently, so I've reformatted/clean installed it and loaded on some apps, but my Classic (which was working) is now gone.
As I recall I think all I had to do was drag copy an old System 9 folder over onto the HD, but is it more complicated than that?
I have an OS9.2.1 Install disk but am a little worried about trashing my OSX install if I run it's installer. I've tried searching about installing Classic but it gets a little mucky with so many different questions/scenarios being talked about. What's the simplest way to get it back onto my iMac?

OK, that worked - almost. I added a "Classic" folder then drag copied both the folders over - one called System and the other called System Folder.
I identified the folder in Classic/Preferences, but when I try to launch it, a couple of things happen.
1. It tells me I have OS9.1 and 9.2 should be installed
2. Another message comes up saying I have an old version of Quicktime and a new one needs to be installed (6.0.3)
The launch of OS9 in Classic mode just hangs on the startup window. I must still be missing a piece somewhere. I've downloaded Quicktime 6.0.3 but can't install it because it need to be run in ...you guessed it - OS9! :-/
I don't know if it makes a difference but the System Icon for OS9 in the Classic/System Folder is just a blank paper - no smiley Mac.

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I made a mistake.
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The temporary solution in my idea is using Firefox in the adapted version. Could you tell me which one?
Thanks for help.

Firefox 3.6.x is the last available from Mozilla for PPC Macs. <br />
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
For older Macs that aren't supported in Firefox 4+ versions, try TenFourFox for PowerPC's running Mac 10.4.11 & 10.5.8 . <br />
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/

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This migration has been far from straightforward and I wonder if someone can give me some tips to sort the remaining problems I am having out.
1 I can't delete old e-mails. The trash can on 10.6.6 is now compartmentalised into 4 trash cans, each one corresponding to one of my active e-mail accounts. In order to delete an e-mail, I have to use the Move to [Trash] command for each individual message in any of the mailboxes I have set up, other than the default Inbox. The delete command does not work!
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3 I cannot open my iPhoto library from the old PPC iMac 10.4.11. An error message tells me that I cannot use this version (9.1.1) to open my photos. This is a disaster.
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Barney-15E wrote:
Nicholas Law wrote:
OMG. This is more complicated than I expected.
I have iPhoto 9.1.1. Is there any reason I should get iPhoto '11? I can't see any reason, at the moment, to buy iLife 11.
You're not reading what I posted. You already have iPhoto '11. version 9.1.1 is iPhoto '11. You shouldn't buy iLife '11 as it came preinstalled on your Mac.
Sorry. I had misunderstood, and not realised that iPhoto '11 IS iPhoto 9.1.1 My apologies.
In Library/Events, I have a series of small windows, each of which bears the title of, corresponds to and holds the photographs of each old Album. These windows are NOT in alphabetical order. It would be helpful if I could get them into this order!
An Event is like a Roll in the old iPhoto. It is a grouping of all the photos imported at the same time. You can name events and split them up, also.
OK. Each Event (in new iPhoto) is thus effectively a grouping of all the photos imported at the same time AND appears to be named identically to each Album on the old iPhoto.
In Library/Photos, there seem to be two views:
1 Each old Album title with a downward pointing arrow next to it displays all the pictures in that album.
That sounds like you are talking about Events. If you have Events selected in the Library, then you are looking at Events, not Albums. You can still create Albums and move photos into the Albums. Do you have your old Albums in the Album list?
See above ie each (new) Event seems to correspond to an (old) Album. I do not have my old Albums in the new Album list (or indeed any Albums at all).
It also sometimes displays the WRONG information for the dates on which the photographs within that album were taken. For example, there are 78 photographs in one album that were taken over the course of a week (by me and other friends) and yet the date next to the album title implies the photographs were taken over the course of 4 years. Why?
If what you are looking at are Events, and not your original Albums, then the Events have extra photos in them since they are based on time of import and not your Albums.
Yes, I take your point about the dates.
Or, the dates on some of the photos may be wrong. If the image file does not contain the exif data for the date, it will try to use something else. My guess would be that some of the photos don't have the correct data in the exif data. If you find the ones that are wrong, you can Adjust the Date and Time from the Photos menu. You can also make Batch Changes to multiple photos. Check the help for that.
Some of the dates on the photos may indeed be wrong. I'll see what I can do about this later.
Library/Faces seems pretty straightforward. With 1,511 unnamed faces, it is going to be quite a job to name them all, but at least it is an optional task.
Library/Places has two pictures in it, although I have absolutely why those 2 specific pictures are there, and not others.
Those are the only two photos that had a geo-location tied to the photo (again, in the exif data). Some newer cameras have GPS location data. If your smartphone has location information (likely) it will embed location info in the photos it takes.
Neither my camera nor smartphone provides GPS location data BUT these photographs were taken by someone else using his smartphone which apparently does. Thanks for solving this mystery.
Recent/Last import shows the same views as Library/Photos above.
Yes, that would be the most recent import for this Library.
Recent/Flagged has no photos in it.
You didn't flag any photos, so none are in there.
Trash has no photos in it.
I hope that's a good thing.
Yes, that's fine. I haven't deleted any of the imported photos yet.
So I think I just need help with how to get the Albums, whether in Library/Events or Library Photos, or in Recent/Last import into
View menu, Sort command. Note that each selection in the Library has its own sort options.
In Library/Events, I used View/Sort Events 'By Title' and this has alphabetised the Events perfectly. Brilliant. Thanks again.
However, each (new) Event ie group of photos imported at any one time, is still named with, and corresponds to the title of an (old) Album.
I have created a single (new) Album while having a single (new) Event open. This magically transferred all the photographs from that Event to the Album. Problem solved easily.
The latter solution b) would be particularly useful as I find pictures most easily in their correctly named and alphabetised albums and not by date. I have not yet discovered any way to drag the imported old albums into alphabetical order, perhaps because they appear to have been imported as a single, for some intents and purposes but not others, block.
View>Sort Events>Manually.
PS I have started to read around this subject on the forums...there seems to be a lot of frustration on the general issue of migration of iPhoto from 10.4.11 to 10.6.6...but at least I was lucky enough to have a complete back up of ALL my pictures from the old PPC iMac.
A lot has changed since 10.4 and the version of iPhoto you used. You missed all the incremental changes as they occurred, so you are now trying to make sense of a lot of changes.
Right.
I think I like the Event structure better than using Albums; however, you can still use Albums like you did before, you'll just need to recreate them if you want to use that method. I'm sure there are reasons for using Albums, but I haven't played with it enough to know when/why.
I see now that Events are indeed almost alternatives to Albums and I will also just have to get used to using one or the other or both. But in any case, this seems solved now, thanks again to your tips.
Printing is a bit different. You might want to play with that a little before you need to print something in a hurry.
I'll get there.
I am still having some problems with iCal and Mail but will post them again in separate forums so as to be able to mark this iPhoto topic as solved.

How do I transfer contents of hard drive on PPC iMac G4 to a new quad-core Intel Core i5

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David JHS21 wrote:
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