Moving data G5 to core 2 duo

[Matthewdw]

Hello, New here.
Apple is replacing my old G5 with the new Imac due to some hardware issues. Apple Rocks! The problem is the old machine needs to leave me before the new one will be shipped (understandable). I just connected a 500GB Maxtor Onetouch4 to save all my stuff until the new Imac gets here. Looks like the hard drive backups movies,music,photos and documents automatically. My questions are what other things should I be aware of that need to be saved manually? I'm trying to think of things like bookmarks but am afraid after the old Imac is long gone I'll be missing stuff. And My wife is set up as a separate user to keep her Itunes apart from mine but after backing up both users when I look in the drive I can only find data relevant to which ever user is in play at the time?
Thanks. I know I'm mostly a flashing 12:00 and hope this isn't too boring.
Matt
http://www.matthewdwalker.com/

 

[Matthewdw]

G5 leaves tomorrow. Any suggestions?
Thanks .. Matt

 

[Discerptor]

If you had any separate folders for downloads from special programs or something, you should save that stuff as well. Really, if you have the space, I'd just back up the entire Home Folder.

 

[Matthewdw]

Thanks Discerptor. Your suggestion may have saved some stuff for me.
New machine here and I'm not pleased. No Appleworks!! We have many business documents made on the old G5 that this new advanced computer has no way of opening. And the migration assistant don't seem to work with my external drive. Looks like I'll be moving a piece at a time for a while and seeing what will open or not.
Thanks .. Matt

 

[the8thark]

If you ever get appleworks again use the info on this thread to make it work just fine. And remember to update it to the latest version too.

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90712

Plus also I think pages will open appleworks files.

 

[Matthewdw]

Thanks the8thark.
We have pages but when we try to get it to open one of the old appleworks documents I get the message "file name is not a word processing document".
Working on getting a copy of Appleworks now. It Would be great if I could figure out how to make the old documents work in pages.
We also have Office 2004. Office seems to want to open my old apple works stuff but I can't seem to find the right combination. I'm getting nonsensical documents filled with unrecognizable symbols Has anyone ever had any luck with this route?
Matt