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#269116 - 08/11/2005 14:18 New toy
thinfourth2
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Registered: 13/04/2001
Posts: 1742
Loc: The land of the pale blue peop...
Okay my G5 dualcore finally turns up tomorrow allegedly.

Now quicky questions

How to get all the junk across i want to move from powerbook to G5

Is it worth partitioning the hard drive before playing as i am considering a second drive soonish

Whats the best way to keep e-mail etc synced between the two macs.

More questions to follow
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#269117 - 08/11/2005 16:34 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
matthew_k
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Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
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How to get all the junk across i want to move from powerbook to G5

When you first turn the powermac on, it'll ask if you want to copy everything over. All you'll need is a firewire cable, it'll walk you through starting up the ibook in "target disk mode" and copying everything. I've only used it once, but it worked flawlessly.

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Is it worth partitioning the hard drive before playing as i am considering a second drive soonish

I suppose this is a matter of personal preference, but I'd say no. Archive and Install works well enough that you can usually "reformat" without reformating.

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Whats the best way to keep e-mail etc synced between the two macs.

I beleive .mac has some provision for this, but I usualy just set one up to "leave mail on server for x number of days", and the other to "leave mail on server". However, this doesn't garantee that all mail will end up on both computers, just that one will have all of it, and one can check it when you'd like.

Enjoy the new purchase.

Matthew

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#269118 - 09/11/2005 09:52 Re: New toy [Re: matthew_k]
thinfourth2
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Registered: 13/04/2001
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well that was hard plug in the firewire cable have a cup of tea come back and everything is set up.

Isn't this how windows is meant to work well thats what the adverts say
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#269119 - 12/11/2005 06:40 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
thinfourth2
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Registered: 13/04/2001
Posts: 1742
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Here we go again

Okay converted all my MP3s over to ACC using iTunes it was nice and easy.

Now how the hell do i sort out the MP3s from the ACC i am sure there is a nice easy way using a script or something but i am a complete puter numpty.

PAul
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#269120 - 12/11/2005 07:43 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
sein
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Registered: 07/01/2005
Posts: 893
Loc: Sector ZZ9pZa
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Okay converted all my MP3s over to ACC using iTunes it was nice and easy.


Hey Paul.

Hope you don't mind me asking, but why did you do that?
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#269121 - 12/11/2005 11:42 Re: New toy [Re: sein]
thinfourth2
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Loc: The land of the pale blue peop...
so they can fit on the laptop that has weeny hard drive and the ipod that has extra weeny hardrive
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#269122 - 12/11/2005 16:07 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
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so they can fit on the laptop that has weeny hard drive and the ipod that has extra weeny hardrive


Isn't that what mp3's are for in the first place? I can't imagine the transcoding process has done anything but ruin the audio quality.
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#269123 - 12/11/2005 16:25 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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Now how the hell do i sort out the MP3s from the ACC


Edit menu - View Options, put a check mark by Kind, it's the 3rd option on the right side. Then in iTunes, a Kind column will exist. MP3 files show up as "MPEG audio file" and AAC files show up as "AAC audio file".

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