Up-date 10.4 Tiger

I have a Mac OSX v10.4 Tiger. Is it possible to up-date to at least Snow Leopard?

If you've got an iMac rather than a MacBook you maximum OS is 10.7.5 Lion.
You can upgrade from 10.4 straight to 10.6 with no problems as long as you have at least 1gb of RAM. Any program that runs under 10.4 should run under10.6. See this list for third party programs compatibility with 10.6: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ You might have to upgrade some drivers for printers, etc....
And you will have to install Rosetta if you have any Power PC applications
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/snow_leopard_installing_rosetta/
Once you are at 10.6.8 Lion is still available from Apple. You will have to call Apple Customer Care 1-800-692-7753 or 1-800-676-2775. to purchase it. Then within 3 days you will get an email with a code which you can use to download Lion from the App Store. The price is $19.99.
Lion will require at least 2gb of RAM but really needs 4gb to run smoothly.
As for third party programs see this list for compatibility with 10.7 http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Also Lion doesn't run any Power PC programs. To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. When System Profiler comes up select Applications under Software. Then look under Kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC. Universal and Intel will run under Lion.
Before Mac switched to Intel processors in 2006 they used Power PC processors from 1994 to 2005. Power PC 601 through 604, G3, G4 and G5. Applications written for the Power PC processors need the application called Rosetta to run on Intel processors. This was part of the Operating System in 10.4 and 10.5 but was an optional install in 10.6. With 10.7 Lion Apple dropped all support for Power PC applications.

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Addressbook.data import from Tiger to Mountain Lion

Hello.
I have a backup of an addressbook.data file and other Contact related files that I am trying to import back into Contacts. The original files are from OS Tiger and I am wanting to import them into Contacts on OS Mountain Lion.
I do not have a working copy of Tiger on my iMac any more so cannot export them in the correct way.
I need to try and find a way of converting/importing the addressbook.data or other file to get at the information I need.
Any help anyone can give is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Basically you need to find a DVD reader that will work, since the only legitimate way to install Snow Leopard is with its DVD.
That can be another Mac, with which you could use FireWire Disk Mode to install Snow Leopard on your MacBook.
You do not need to upgrade to Lion first. You may upgrade from Snow Leopard directly to Mountain Lion.

Transferring apps/data/settings in Tiger upgrade

My iBook (which was running 10.3.9) is in for repair at the moment. When it comes back it will have a brand new hard drive (80GB) and 10.4.7 installed.
Could you advise me on the best way to restore all the apps, files, settings etc? Virtually everything that was on the old internal drive- plus a bit more - is cloned on an external, Lacie firewire back-up, making about 60GB in all.
I want to make sure it's a good, solid upgrade - so any recommendations/step-by-step advice would be much appreciated!

Hi, conran.
If you have a true "clone" (bootable duplicate) of your original hard drive on the LaCie that was made with a proper Backup and Recovery Utility, and the LaCie is a FireWire drive, then you'll want to use the Setup / Migration assistant to restore your former accounts, apps, data, preferences, etc. from the clone to your iBook and its new hard drive. This approach can copy everything from the clone except the OS, and, as you note that your iBook should return with a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.4.7 installed, you don't want to overwrite that by "cloning the clone" back to the iBook using the Backup and Recovery utility you employed to make the clone.
See "Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4: Transferring data with Setup Assistant / Migration Assistant FAQ." See also this page describing the new Setup Assistant.
In this case, you'd connect — via FireWire cable — and power-on the LaCie to your iBook. The iBook will probably start up to the Setup Assistant. Select "Transfer information from another Mac" when prompted. Then (here's the trick), when prompted for "How you would like to migrate?" select "From another volume on this Mac." In the next window, select your LaCie FireWire drive. Then continue to follow the prompts.
As FYI, if it does return with 10.4.7 installed, be sure they include a copy of the Tiger Install DVD. Otherwise, you won't have a bootable disc from which you can run Disk Utility, presuming the install discs that came with your iBook have Mac OS X 10.3.8 or earlier on them. See: "Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes."
Good luck!
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How do i install tiger on external drive?

ola, i have 2 dead 17" flatscreen (swivelhead) ppc imacs, i'm desperately want to resurrect one of them, having replaced the power supply (no thanks to apple and foxconn?) and it also has a faulty logic board (no thanks to apple?).... someone in cape town south africa, apparently can do component level repairs...... i have to ready the imac with an up to date 10.4 (tiger) OS from my mac pro running snow leopard.....
how do i-
1. install 10.4 onto an external drive and if possible
2. update leopard on the external drive before i put it back into the faulty imac?
thx
francois

Installing Tiger on a drive means restarting the master computer (MacPro) using the Tiger install disk. Since MacPro uses the Intel chip, I don't believe you will be able to restart that computer with the Tiger disk. If you can attach an external drive (using firewire) to a PowerPC computer, I suggest you use the Tiger install disk on the external drive to install 10.4. I would then attach it to the "dead" iMac (using firewire) and try and restart the computer while holding down the option key. Click on the external drive and see if the computer starts up. If it does, you probably have a corrupted operating system on your iMac. At this point you can try either to run DiskWarrior on the iMac or just use the Tiger install disk to replace the old system in the iMac (or reformat the drive and start fresh). Hope this helps.
JDB

Can I resize partitions in Tiger?

I'm rethinking my strategy of being able to restore from my TM volume to Leopard. Can I resize partitions using Disk Utility without losing data while in Tiger?

octafish wrote:
I'm rethinking my strategy of being able to restore from my TM volume to Leopard. Can I resize partitions using Disk Utility without losing data while in Tiger?
NEVER change any partitions on a disk without first backing up completely and testing the backup.
I believe Tiger will destroy data; Leopard claims not to but I don't trust my disk to a partitioning agent. Leopard states that you should backup.

OS X Tiger installation

Help! I think I've messed up. I just got my OS X Tiger upgrade pack and launched straight into installing (I did do a back up first) without checking out the discussions to see what I should do to prepare. It seems to have caused a few problems. Firstly I couldn't finish the Setup Assistant after installing as the install wiped all my wireless settings so I had to do a reboot to get that going again. Then when I had restarted I couldn't find the Setup Assistant anywhere to go through it properly. I am also now having problems with Intego Net Barrier which isn't launching when I start up and gives me a Diagnostics error message when I start up saying it could not load the login file.
I suspect I am going to find other problems as I try to launch applications.
Is there anything I can do to get things working properly again.
Thanks
Vivien

The available option you used/selected is "Upgrade Mac OS X" which is an easy or simple upgrade but regardless, the Setup Assistant should be provided or is only provided when turning on a new Mac purchase or when performing an Erase & Install of any OS X version.
Assuming you didn't check the hard drive for any directoy problems with Disk First Aid repair via Disk Utilities when booted from the Tiger install disc and/or you didn't disconnect any external peripheral devices except for an external keyboard and mouse (if used with your TiBook), check Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption for system troubleshooting procedures and when doing so, follow all steps/instructions in the order provided.
Is it also safe to assume you didn't create a backup of all important data before installing Tiger which should always be the first step before installing a major OS Upgrade such as Tiger and before installing any major OS Update to Tiger?

Upgrading from Panther to Tiger. Is it worth it?

Hi there. I have been debating this in my head for quite some time. It is worth upgrading from Panther to Tiger? What are the benefits?
Thanks,
dave

Hi dave!
If you do decide to upgrade, Tiger is available for purchase at The Apple Store (US).
Jaguar and Panther, are no longer available directly from the Apple Online Store, as Tiger 10.4.x is the most up to date OS.
A Full Retail Version of the Tiger Install DVD, can be purchased rather inexpensively, at some online Apple retailers, Amazon, eBay, AppleRescue, (as cornelius mentioned) etc.
Be sure not to purchase grey, upgrade or machine specific CDs or DVDs.
Additional info in these links.
Using OS X Install CDs/DVDs On Multiple Macs
What's A Computer Specific Mac OS X Release
Software Update, Upgrade: What's The Difference?
Once Tiger 10.4.x is installed, you can use the PPC 10.4.8 Combo Update, to upgrade to the most up-to-date version.
Tiger System Requirements
Mac Model Compatibility & Requirements For OS X
Additionally,
"Tiger ships on a DVD, but if your Mac doesn’t have a built-in DVD-ROM player, you’ll need CD media. When you buy Mac OS X Tiger, you qualify to purchase Tiger CDs for only $9.95."
Download The Order Form Here. Media Exchange Program
Shop Carefully, Examine All Documentation, And Good Luck!
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Update to Tiger HELP!!

Hey guys,
A bit of a problem I am in, I am trying to upgrade an old G4 tower (30 gig HD, 466 MHz PowerPC G4 with 10.2 currently installed on it) to Tiger OS. The tower does not have a DVD drive, just CD, so the copy I have does not obviously work. Second, I went into the towers utilites to try and find Migration Assistant, as I could do it this way and hook it up to an external bootable hard drive I have with Tiger, however, there is no MIgration Assistant!!!If 10.2 did not have migration assistant, how did they transfer stuff from old to new computer abck then??
Any suggestions??
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10) 120 GB HD, DL DVD, 640 RAM

1. You can contact Apple for a CD copy of the disk. (but it will cost you more money). 2. Try the option key on boot, and boot to the Tiger External. Then you will have migration assistant in Tiger, and will be able to pull your old data over. 3. Here is my suggestion... IF AND WHEN you get all your data over to Tiger.. use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy and completely clone the external and internal drives. Then Tiger will be on both, but warning, if you dont get everything over, it wont be there when you go back to look for it.

Install Tiger OS from external FW DVD drive

Because my G4 must be rack-mounted, I have removed it's superdrive to an external FW enclosure. Though it is the original drive, I am unable to startup from it with my full retail Tiger OS 10.4.22 disk.
The disk mounts just fine; running the installer shows a restart button but after the restart, boots from the 10.3.9 system on the HD, with the DVD mounted on the desktop. If I manually designate the Tiger OS on DVD in startup disk, on restart, it reverts to the 10.3.9 system on the HD as well.
I have tried C, X, option keys, These methods don't even show the DVD volume as an option.
What now?
G4 DP 1.42GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2G RAM

Thank you,
Though I have not yet solved the problem, you steered me in the right direction. My enclosure is no longer supported by Yamaha, the original manufacturer, so obviously it is suspect. I am currently waiting for a reply from OWC to see if their most up-to-date enclosures are Tiger boot-compatible before plunking down the cash. I have not been able to locate any database with this information online.
Patchburn reported my drive as ready to go, so I guess the boot issue is not addressed by it specifically.

Old Address Book on OS X Tiger

I now have Mac mini intel Snow Leopard but need to get my old address book off of my old power pc HDD that was OS Tiger.
I cannot import them into my new address book.
Any ideas please.

I'm not clear whether what you just said is that you copied the address book data from the Address Book data folder in your Tiger $HOME/Library/Application Support/AddressBook whilst solely in the Finder environment, or that you had exported the data from the Tiger Address Book application or if you mean you that you did is what I suggested you try. I don't think what you said you did is what I suggested. So how about giving that a try?
Can you boot into Tiger now?
IF so, can you launch Address Book?
If so, can you select a group and see a list of all the address cards that belong to it?
If so, can you select them all?
If so, can you drag it to the Desktop (or to a flash drive, or to the Snow hard drive)?
If so, what is it named? Something like "Alice Allison and 43 others.vcf?"
If so, can you rename it to the {name of the group}.vcf?
If so, can you now open that vcf file with Text Edit and read it?
Does it look similar in format to:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Alice Allison
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=HOME;type=pref:[email protected]
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK:[email protected]
TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:201-555-1212
TEL;type=WORK;type=FAX:402-555-1212
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Bob Baer
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
(Don't save when you close/quit)
If so, can you do the same with all the other address book entries in each of the other groups?
Now once you boot back into Snow Leopard can you open one (or more) of these {name of group}.vcf cards in Text Edit, can you still read it(them)? And they look like the same sort of format?(Again, don't save when you close/quit)
Once you open address book, have you manually created the new groups there in the application ("+" at bottom of left column, type group name)?
If so, can you drag the file icon of one of your newly created group "mega-vcf" cards into the Address Book window and drop it on top of the appropriate group icon (that you just created manually) in the left column of the Address Book window?
If so, can you now see the list of address book entries in the middle column?
If so, can you select individual address book entries in the middle column and read the card in the right column and does the data look correct?
If so, can you do the above with all the remaining group cards?

Switch from Leopard to Tiger

I am unable to fix the administrators name and password problem (invalid no matter what I try). Do I deinstall Leopard and reinstall Tiger or do I just reinstall Tiger over Leopard? Is there a possibility of losing everything on my computer in the process? Is there also the possibility of not being able to log in once I go back to Tiger (the same problem I have with Leopard)?

Well musichouse,
The news is not good for you. The only way to get Tiger back onto your machine is to erase the drive and install Tiger, so you will lose everything on your computer.
There are also other issues to consider. How old is your iMac? The newest models won't run Tiger. Did your iMac come with Tiger pre-installed? If it came with Leopard pre-installed you are (probably) one of the unlucky ones who cannot revert to Tiger.
Do you have the original restore DVD for your iMac?
Are you running Time Machine on an external drive? You can use the external for backing up your data before installing Tiger. Just delete a few (or all) of your back ups to create space if necessary. I just moved my files, music and photos to the external. I couldn't see any point in attempting to clone the system to change the OS.
You may be able to reset your password by using the Leopard install DVD. Insert the disc and restart when prompted. Hold down the option key before the chime starts and it will boot to the options screen. One of the options is to change the admin password.
I have just done the same thing and am currently reinstalling all my apps to bring my machine back to where it was before I installed the notorious OSX 10.5 Leopard. It's very disappointing to have to go back because Leopard is a wonderful OS (without the glitches).

Transfer from Tiger to Panther

If I am trasfering my files from a computer that has Tiger onto a computer that has panther, will it work? Do I do it the same way? Also, will I be able to move the Microsoft Office (on the tiger) to the other computer? or will I have to buy another? Thanks.

You can use Firewire Target Disk Mode to transfer data between Panther/Tiger Macs (actually as far back as 8.6).
Applications tend not to move well in this respect as many need proper installation to install the relevant components in the different directories within OS X. I think Office may be okay but remember that unless you delete Office from the original computer you're probably bending the law (Read the End User Licence Agreement).
kind regards
mrtotes

OSX Mail - Cannot send message using the server ....

Hi there,
Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.
*Can receive mail, but can no longer send email* using the program Mail.
Been getting the popup "Cannot send message using the server [shawmail.vc.shawcable.net] for the past 3 days. I hadn't changed anything about my computer, and have had the Mac for 2+ years. So this just started doing it on it's own.
I had a technical support guy from my service provider even interface with my computer, where he could see my desktop right over the internet, and he couldn't get it fixed either.
I googled this problem, and found solutions like:
1. Uncheck "Use SSL" (Done that, and it was never checked "on" to begin with)
2. Make sure Authentication is set to none, with no password (done that, and it wasn't set with a password to begin with)
3. Delete [user]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (done that, didn't do anything)
4. We even totally deleted my account, and started a new fresh one. Didn't work
The tech support guy did show me a way to email online, using the same email account. That worked, but it's a hassle to go onto a web-based email program -- it's not my preference. So, with great certainty, it's not my service provider, because I was able to send emails on this web-based email program using my email account.
So there, I'm stumped.
Hopefully someone can help. What's bizarre is that googling this problem, I have found many other people that say it happens arbitrarily, out of nowhere.

I can't believe how ridiculous this issue is. i have been searching for days for a solution to this. i have tried EVERY recommendation on these forums and nothing works. It appears that this issue dates back to TIGER. I had this problem back in January and just bagged figuring it had something to do with iweb. I bought a new html program and was able to send out my newsletter last month no problem. Suddenly, one month later- here i am again, unable to send out my newsletter with no help from Apple or verizon, or these forims, or anyone else. To think that a company that I have stood behind and loved so much can't be be bothered fixing such a simple issue that has been going on now through 5 OS's (I am using Lion but I had the issue using leopard as well) is a disgrace.

Installation big problem with Officejet 8500

My problem is the following:
I have a LAN on which are connected 2 PC's with XP, 1 PC with Vista and one with Windows 2000. I want to install a printer on the router using TCP/IP and cable.
The installation of the Officejet 8500 was without problem on the XT machines.
It went well on the Vista machine. Then it lost the printer. I had to go back to the pre-installation stage and do it again. Now it seems OK.
The problem is on Windows 2000. The installation process goes up to the point where the printer is found and the IP address and printer ID correct.
Then the sofware tries to configure the printer and it fails (the printer configuration has failed). I have tried again a lot of time without success.
The only way out is to proceed with installation and try to establish the connection to the printer later. I tried it also, without success.
The contacted HP support seems to be lost with the problem.
Can somebody help me?
Many thanks,

When you say that after half an hour it told you that you "could not" do you mean that the install process never began (no "installing..." progress bar) or that it did start but subsequently quit, reporting failure?
If the first, try booting from your G4's Tiger install disk & running its copy of Disk Utility -- don't do an install but instead choose that application from the "Utilities" menu of the installer application. Perform both the disk repair (first) & then permissions repair. Quit Disk Utility, choose the Startup Disk utility (from the same menu), select your G4's drive & restart.
If the second, your Tiger OS has been compromised with some (but not all) the Leopard components, which is why startup hangs. For this, start off as above but just run the disk repair from the Tiger installer disk, then perform an Archive & Install from its installer. This should restore the Tiger OS to a functional state, but you will have to reapply any OS 10.4 updates released after the release date of the Tiger installer disk. A good way to save time with that is by downloading the latest combo updater (10.4.11) & applying it.
In either case, it is a good idea to backup your home folder(s) from your G4 to prevent data loss should anything go wrong. Target disk mode, as already described, is a good way to access the G4's contents even if you can't boot it into an OS.

External Hard Drive Not recognized when trying to boot from it.

So I am trying to boot from my external hard drive through firewire but my computer doesn't seem to recognize the external. There is some problem with my Macbook not booting up correctly and I want to backup my data before reinstalling Tiger. They did this at the Apple store and ran disk utility on it my Macbooks hard drive. I could access all my data, but now when I get home and plug in my hard drive, hold down option after booting, the only drive that pops up is the Mac HD. I read somewhere to try partitioning the external drive as Mac Journaled and I did so with my working Macbook Pro. Any ideas whats going on?

Well i got most of my information off the old one, now I am trying to reinstall Tiger to the MacBook. Problem is I initially tried to do an archive install and the install kept failing after the second disc when it asked for the second install disc.
The people at the Apple store suggested that I try to do a wipe of the hard drive and install. Now when I put in the Disc 1 install disc and boot from the cd drive it just sits for a while and then ejects disc 1 and goes back to the place where the install failed from before ie: it keeps asking for the second install disc.
I can't figure out a way to get around this and just do a clean install on the machine. Any thoughts would be great.

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