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#269116 - 08/11/2005 14:18 New toy
thinfourth2 Pooh-Bah 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 _________________________ P.Allison fixer of big engines Mk2+Mk2a signed by God / Hacked by the Lord Aberdeen Scotland
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#269117 - 08/11/2005 16:34 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
matthew_k pooh-bah Registered: 12/02/2002 Posts: 2298 Loc: Berkeley, California	Quote: 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. Quote: 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. Quote: 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 Pooh-Bah Registered: 13/04/2001 Posts: 1742 Loc: The land of the pale blue peop...	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 _________________________ P.Allison fixer of big engines Mk2+Mk2a signed by God / Hacked by the Lord Aberdeen Scotland
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#269119 - 12/11/2005 06:40 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
thinfourth2 Pooh-Bah Registered: 13/04/2001 Posts: 1742 Loc: The land of the pale blue peop...	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 _________________________ P.Allison fixer of big engines Mk2+Mk2a signed by God / Hacked by the Lord Aberdeen Scotland
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#269120 - 12/11/2005 07:43 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
sein old hand Registered: 07/01/2005 Posts: 893 Loc: Sector ZZ9pZa	Quote: 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? _________________________ Hussein
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#269121 - 12/11/2005 11:42 Re: New toy [Re: sein]
thinfourth2 Pooh-Bah Registered: 13/04/2001 Posts: 1742 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 _________________________ P.Allison fixer of big engines Mk2+Mk2a signed by God / Hacked by the Lord Aberdeen Scotland
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#269122 - 12/11/2005 16:07 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	Quote: 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. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#269123 - 12/11/2005 16:25 Re: New toy [Re: thinfourth2]
drakino carpal tunnel Registered: 08/06/1999 Posts: 7868	Quote: 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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