Transferrring from Imac to Ibook

I just got an Ibook, and would like to transfer everything in my Itunes to my Ibook. What is the easiest way to do this? Do I have to move it to an external harddrive (IPOD) or is there a way to connect them directly and sync them up?
Thanks
Kent

Check out the Apple Knowledge Base FAQ on using Migration Assistant:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773

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Sync iTunes from iMac to iBook

how do I sync iTunes from iMac to iBook? I tryed through Bluetooth, no luck. Any ideas?

To keep both libraries perfectly synced, you may need to find a script or separate application to do it.
If you're just interested in keeping the music the same (but not necessarily play counts, ratings, etc) you can just copy the music itself from one computer to the other (via network).
Perhaps someone with a bit more imagination/experience can provide a working solution? I've done something similar by using an external/network drive and a sym linked iTunes library, but the problem with that is your laptop won't be able to access the music unless it's on your home network.

Tranfer from imac to ibook

I am unable to transfert my web site (iweb) from imac to ibook. How can I transfer my hard drive from one mac to the other. This should solve the question as I want to transfer my outlook also and unable to do so. Am in a rush. Have to catch a plane . Many thanks as this is kind of an emergency

Hi Melanie
I haven't come across that problem before. It sounds like you're following all the right steps, and you're logging in to the other computer with the right credentials, so I'm not sure what the issue is.
However, providing that you're using an admin login, you can connect either way (iMac to iBook or iBook to iMac) to transfer files. An admin login will allow you to mount the entire hard drive of the other computer; an ordinary user login will only be able to access their own home folder. So if iMac --> iBook works for you, you can still copy files to the iMac that way. Make the connection, browse in the mounted iBook's folders, and copy across the files you want.
Matt

Transferring set-up for Mail from iMac to iBook

I just switched from AOL to Mail on my iMac and would like to have the same setup on my iBook. How can I do this without building everything from scratch a second time? I'm not sure where to look for the preferences or whatever that is saved for my Mail configuration. Any help?
Thanks,
Joanne

Joanne,
One easy way to make the transfer, unless the Mail folder is of extreme size, is to Network the iBook with the iMac. More on this in a moment.
What you want to do, by network, target disk, or burned media, is REPLACE the com.apple.mail.plist file (Home/Library/Preferences), and the Mail folder (Home/Library/Mail ) on the iBook with a copy of the same files from the iMac. Once you have done this, launch Mail on the iBook, and you will be set. The same can be done with the Address Book (Home/Library/Application Support/Address Book.
To do this while in direct network link do the following:
On the iMac, click on System Preference icon in the Dock, and choose Sharing. Next place a check mark in box beside Personal File Sharing.
Now, on the iBook, open a Finder window, and click on the Network globe in the Sidebar, and you will see your iMac listed. Double click on the iMac icon, and when prompted enter the administrator password for the iMac. At that point choose to connect to your Home folder on the iMac, and then an Icon for that home folder will mount on the iBook. Open it the same as you would open the HD, and then open the HD on the iBook, and locate the files you wish to replace with copies of those on the iMac.
Hope this helps.
Ernie

Migration from imac to ibook keeping the files intact on imac.

hi,
I have just bought a second hand ibook g4 osx10.4 and want to migrate some of my apps, documents and other files from my imac osx10.4.11. I will still be using my imac so want to know if its safe to use the normal migration procedure or will it delete the files and apps from their original place on the imac.
hope that makes sense!
really appreciate some advice before i go ahead and try it!
thanks

so want to know if its safe to use the normal migration procedure
Yes, it is.
(41580)

Moving iphone 4 from imac to ibook

Okay I had a iphone 3GS and it was linked to an imac 10.4.11 with itunes 9. Now I have a iphone 4 GSM. It needs a Leopard or better. My mom bought a used ibook that is upgraded with Leopard. We upgraded iTunes to 10.
Now we tried to move the itunes via backup drive to ibook. We got the apps but not the phone contacts. What did we do wrong?

jellis502003 wrote:
Okay I had a iphone 3GS and it was linked to an imac 10.4.11 with itunes 9. Now I have a iphone 4 GSM. It needs a Leopard or better. My mom bought a used ibook that is upgraded with Leopard. We upgraded iTunes to 10.
Now we tried to move the itunes via backup drive to ibook. We got the apps but not the phone contacts. What did we do wrong?
You can try moving the iPhone backup database to the new computer. It is in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync

Transferring from imac to ibook

Hi...my first computer was a blue iMac, originally released in 98 with a tray-loading cd....i have lots of pictures and files on there that i would like to transfer to my ibook G4 laptop before I pass the iMac onto a young friend for her first computer....how do I do that? The OS for the iMac has been upgraded to 9, I think...I haven't used it in awhile...I just remember that up/downloading pictures via email takes 25 min or more...do the two computers connect via ethernet cord? I basically want to save everything to the laptop and clean up the iMac for giving it away. Suggestions?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If it is Mac OS 9, it is as simple as my instructions here, if the iBook has Mac OS X:
http://www.macmaps.com/network9X.html

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How do I un-embed a youtube video? I deleted the youtube video from ibooks author on my iMac, but it won't delete from the ipad ibook view. It shows up in my book as a blank bar until I tap it, then it plays the video. I made a new page after deleting the original page in which I inserted the video; it still shows up. Only the advertisement from the video plays.

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re-preview to your iPad
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Printer Sharing with eMac, iMac, and iBook not working

Hello, everyone. I hope you guys can help me out with this:
I have an Epson Stylus CX4600 hooked up to my eMac via USB. My eMac prints fine with it. The eMac is getting its internet via an Ethernet wire going downstairs into my Linksys Router, which sends my Shaw internet to my iBook, my iMac, and my eMac.
I want to allow the iMac and iBook to access the printer over the network directly, so I can just print from those computers and have it come out the eMac printer.
I've looked at many articles on this. So far I've installed the drivers on all computers, plus they can all network to each other over File Sharing, so they are connected.
But I haven't been able to print yet. The most I've been able to do is get the files I try to print from the iBook and iMac to show up on the eMac, in its printer queue. Only it didn't show up for a LONG time. And when it did, the jobs automatically stopped and everytime I clicked start, it would automatically switch back to stopped again. The files would not print.
At this point, I want to get the iBook connected to it first. If I can do that, I'll try the iMac. But the iBook is first priority. I've tried making it connect to the Printer using IPP (IP Printing), and the result was... what I explained in the above paragraph. I also tried just ordinary Printer Sharing, but it said something close to this:
"Unable to locate eMac.local, Unknown host."
That hardly makes sense, because at that time I also tried getting the iBook connected to the eMac over File Sharing which worked. For some reason, the "eMac.local" and "iMac.local" files don't show up in my Network thing when I connect to them, or even when they're not connected. HOWEVER, I think they did at one point. I could swear I saw "eMac.local" and "iMac.local" in the Servers folder in the Network section of the iBook at one point. But it's no longer there.
Please help. I've described my problem as well as possible. What a long post. If there's any way to make my eMac, iMac, and iBook be able to print through my Epson Stylus CX4600 at any time directly, then I'll do it.
Help!

Yes. I did say that my eMac, iMac, and iBook are all
connected to the internet and networked to each other
over the Linksys router. I believe the router is
still on factory settings because we never really
"set" or programmed anything with it.
Mac OS 9.2.2 on the iMac, Mac OS X 10.4.8 on the
other two. IP addresses?
192.168.1.100 is what I would use to connect to the
eMac from the other computers.
This is the eMac's IP, correct? Did you type it into Network, or was it assigned by the router's DHCP?
192.168.1.101 is what I would use to connect to the
iBook from the other computers.
This is the iBook's IP, right? Again, fixed or DHCP?
192.168.1.102 is what I would use to connect to the
iMac from the other computers.
Same for this IP.
The iBook, as I've said, is wired. No wireless
connections to speak of.
Okay. Now, if the router is handing out IP addresses via DHCP, what range was it configured for? My Linksys, for example, is configured to hand out IPs in the range 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.254. It has the IP 192.168.0.1, so the IPs 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.9 are available for me to hand out as fixed IPs. If I was to hand out 192.168.0.100 as a fixed IP, the router's DHCP server would have a potential problem, as it might hand out that address too, and only one device can have a particular IP address on a particular network. If your router is handing out 192.168.1.100, .101, and .102 via DHCP, you could and probably do have a conflict if you've got those addresses set up as fixed IPs. In particular, if you have anything else on the network, including Bonjour-enabled devices such as printers, you're likely to have a conflict.
Best way to resolve a conflict, if any:
1 set all the Macs to either DHCP, or if fixed IPs are required, to a fixed IP outside the range of the DHCP range on the router. (Or you could just turn off DHCP on the router.)
2 check the router to be sure that DHCP is set the way you want it, and the DHCP pool is what you think it is.
3 shut down the Macs.
4 turn off the router, wait 30 seconds, turn it back on.
5 turn the Macs back on, one at a time.
On my Linksys, the way to set the DHCP pool is simple:
1 log into the router. (My router IP: 192.168.0.1. Yours would be 192.168.1.1.) Hit the 'Setup' tab. Verify the gateway IP. (Should be the router's IP. If it's not, something very strange is happening.) Verify the start of the DHCP pool. Verify that DHCP is on (or off, as you want). Verify the end of the DHCP pool. (My start is 192.168.0.10, and there are 245 IPs in the pool, so the end is 192.168.0.254. If I changed the number of IPs to 200, the end of the pool would be 192.168.0.209, and I'd be able to set the IPs 192.168.0.200 to 254 as fixed IPs if I wanted.) If your router allows for IPs to be reserved, you can set up reserved IPs for one or more of your Macs. (A reserved IP is an IP the router holds for a specific device. The network card in each computer has a specific MAC address; if that address is registered with the router, then every time that computer is turned on and connected it will get the IP that was reserved for it... so long as that IP is in the DHCP range and DHCP is turned on. Think of it as a fixed IP without your having to actually fix the IP.)

How to share and update one iTunes master library on an external HD between an iMac and iBook

Hi. I am in the process of consolidating and switching gears from storing my iTunes libraries (which have roughly the same files) on both my iMac and iBook (both OS 10.7.5) to creating one master library on an external hard drive (Canvio Connect 2TB) and sharing that between both computers, updating the laptop (which I use less frequently) when necessary. I wanted to know if this is possible and if so, how to go about doing this in a way where I don't lose any data and am able to maintain it efficiently. Thanks!

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I have a box with objects inside and a list inside with an updated inventory of the objects. I give the box to you. You take some objects out and put some in and make a note in the list of what you have done, then put the list back inside and hand the box to me. How do I know what changes you have done? Simple. I open the box and look at the list. It's the same list that was in your hands only moments before. I add a few objects and update the list, put it back inside the box and hand the box to you. How do you know what changes have been made? Simple. Open the box and read the list which was the one I updated moments before. The only copy of the list is in the box so neither of us is needing to keep our own copy of the list updated.
Everything iTunes needs to generate your library listing is in the iTunes folder, but it doesn't have to be on the computer. In your case it will all be on the external drive and each copy of the iTunes application on each computer will look and use the same identical library file on the external drive as you pass it from computer to computer. Once you have set this up you can delete the entire iTunes folder in Music from your computer because the application will no longer be using it. The only thing "iTunes" left on the computer will be the application itself, but each copy will have been told to use the library on the external drive.
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Controlling iTunes on iMac via iBook

Hi all,
I have an iMac G5 and my girlfriend has just ordered a nice & cheap refurbed iBook from the Apple store. We have a wireless network set up already. My question is this:
If I bought a AirPort Express Base Station, could I stream my iTunes library from my iMac (upstairs) to the Airport Express, but control playback from the iBook?
At the monet I stream rom my iMac to a Windoes laptop, but have to have an audio cord pulged from that into my amp downstairs and would love to go completely wireless.
Thanks in advance,
GeoffShoulders

Hi Griffs
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping it would be simpler than that. At the moment I simply share my iMac Itunes library and pick it up using iTunes on the Windows laptop downstairs.
I was hoping that I could continue to share the files via the iTunes, but rather than have an audio cable out from the new iBook, wirelessly stream the music to an Airport/Airtunes connected to the stereo.
Anyone else know if that would work?
Cheers,
GeoffShoulders

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