if anyone can help me this, i'd be grateful. have had a frustrating few hours trying to answer this question. just bought a macbook pro, retina, running mavericks. i can't figure out if there's any way to get my data off my old computer, onto the new. i can't upgrade to snow leopard because my computer won't run it. whenever i have tried connecting the two computers via ethernet, the new computer won't recognize the old (though i think the old recognizes the new). i don't have a time machine backup, because my computer is so old and full, that it became corrupted. (which is why i got a new one). does anyone have any answers or suggestions on how i could do this? thanks. --nancy
Here's the deal. Firstly...a lot of time has passed between OS 10.5.8 and OS 10.9 Mavericks. What this means is...just about all (if not all) of the apps you were using on your old 10.5.8 Macintosh will not run with OS 10.9.
Thus if most or all of your old apps won't run under OS 10.9...then there's no need to transfer them. Now what you would want to transfer are:
- files you may have created with your apps (such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc.).
- photos
- movies/videos
- music/mp3's
- files you may have created using various Adobe apps.
Long story short...you would mostly be transferring all your files. photos, music, and videos...but not much else.
Of course you will want to double check (just to be sure) if any of your apps from your old computer will work with OS 10.9...but I'm guess there will be very few if any.
If none of your apps will run with OS 10.9...you could simply use a USB thumbdrive...copy all the items I mentioned above onto it...then copy them onto your new retina MacBook Pro.
HTH,
- Nick