i'm going through a very strange experience right now. a friend bought my 2010 11-inch MBA because he says his old ibook just won't cut it anymore; i offered to transfer his files. when i saw the ibook (which i helped him buy ages ago) i saw why it was due for a replacement: the screen was all crackled (you get that with really old laptops), but the thing still ran--on OS 10.1.5! i tried upgrading it to tiger because it wasn't reading my USB drives, etc and i thought maybe the ancient system was the problem, but it kept hanging, so i finally gave up on upgrading, and then i found that it worked with one of my 8-gig USB drives (this thing doesn't even have wifi, so forget about migration assistant). so i'm now copying the owner's user files to the thumb drive, thankfully less than 7 gigs of them (this ibook has a 40GB drive, i think)--but this is USB 1.0, and it will take more than 3 hours till the copying gets done i'm going out for coffee.... PS: thank god i remembered firewire! from 3 hours to 13 minutes....
Hi Penmanila I guess people say fate sometimes has a purpose for making things happen from one event to another. Or things happen for a reason. It was perfect that your friend just had exactly 7 gig files that fits in to your 8 gig flash drive.
i like the quote MacSonic... things do happen for a reason for penmanila, your friend is lucky to have someone like you
I don't understand, so just to clarify, you finally used a firewire equipped external hard drive to get his files in 13 minutes?
yup. the ibook had firewire, and it was a good thing that one of my external HDs still had a firewire port. firewire is blazingly fast! ha ha unfortunately even that didn't work--i pulled the plug when the transfer said it would take 8 (up from the original 3) hours using the USB 1.0 port. eventually i used firewire--took just 13 minutes.
Nice thread This reminds me of how much our beloved macs have evolved. When I first purchased a mac back in 2003 (It was an Ibook G4 with Panther), Airport, bluetooth and Superdrives (DVD burners) weren't part of the package. We did have a modem back then though By the way, Sir Butch, would target disk mode work with 10.1.5? Of course in your friend's case, it wouldn't matter because a Macbook Air doesn't have a firewire port but I'm just wondering. Lastly, does the Ibook have an ethernet port? I'm just wondering if you can do a direct connection somehow.
Couldn't you have just booted the iBook in target disk mode (if that model supported it), essentially turning it into 40GB external FireWire drive?
you didn't, but you will: that's the beauty of thunderbolt: anything you can plug onto a pcie bus, you can thunderbolt. coming soon!
