How can I transfer files from a Power Macintosh 7100/80 to a more modern mac?

Briganti

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I recommend persevering with the network option. You will need to find some guides and spend the time to get it going, but it's very convenient once it's going. I use a Synology NAS which I'm pretty sure uses netatalk, and can connect to it from all my old Macs as well as my modern stuff. It's great.
Thanks Burgertrench, going to look into it.
 

Briganti

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You can still use AFP from the 10.5 box to pull all the data off your old PowerPC box. It's fairly easy, at the moment I can only offer the link my signature, it'll get better once I'm done with v.4.0.
Thank you Mk.558. Your site is an amazingly detailed resource. Just spent a few hours and tried a whole bunch of things and nothing came from it, sadly. Looked at your "AFP" table first, and humbly see that 7.5(.0)'s highest compatible match seems to be 10.2, perhaps? But based on your recommendation, I kept sifting through your walk-throughs, including the "MacTCP" and "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard" sections, and thought I was getting close. One thing I was not able to "see" was an "Options" button under "File Sharing" and the "File Sharing" checkbox, so looks like I'm somehow not able to share files using AFP. I proceeded to designate some folders for sharing but, alas, nothing is showing up from either mac to the other. Will keep reading through your work, thank you for being so detailed.
 

volvo242gt

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Does the PowerMac with 10.5 have a SCSI card? If it does, simplest thing to do is to open up the 7100's case, pull the hard drive, and plug it into the 50-pin connector on the SCSI card. Use one of the loose power connectors to power the drive. Copy the contents of the drive to a folder on the newer PowerMac's hard drive or to a USB thumb drive.

If you don't have one, I'd recommend the Adaptec APD-29160N. Works well in my G4 Digital Audio, running 9.2.2 and 10.4.11.

I did this for a client who wanted his data from his old PowerBook 180's external hard drive saved. Connected the drive to the G4, copied the data over to a 1GB thumb drive, then handed him that when I saw him the next time.
 

Mk.558

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Thank you Mk.558. Your site is an amazingly detailed resource. Just spent a few hours and tried a whole bunch of things and nothing came from it, sadly. Looked at your "AFP" table first, and humbly see that 7.5(.0)'s highest compatible match seems to be 10.2, perhaps? But based on your recommendation, I kept sifting through your walk-throughs, including the "MacTCP" and "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard" sections, and thought I was getting close. One thing I was not able to "see" was an "Options" button under "File Sharing" and the "File Sharing" checkbox, so looks like I'm somehow not able to share files using AFP. I proceeded to designate some folders for sharing but, alas, nothing is showing up from either mac to the other. Will keep reading through your work, thank you for being so detailed.

MacTCP does not provide AFP over TCP capabilities by itself. It's a common misunderstanding, and it doesn't help that people frequently associate MacIP with AFP over TCP/IP. It's a reasonable thing to assume, and as I don't want to confuse you, I won't go further into it without you requesting it.

The Chart has a few errors. The next major release version will look very similar to this:

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If you want to continue using 7.5, which would be smart for speed reasons, then you'll have to use FTP.

If you want to use AFP for speed and ease of use, the easiest thing to do is install Mac OS 8.1 with AppleShare Client 3.8.3, which will work just fine with 10.5.

Of course you may have a chicken and egg problem: how do I get stuff to the 7100/80 if I can't get stuff off it. FTP could come handy once again. If you have a working CD-ROM drive, you can install an OS that way.

If the 7100/80 has just 7.5 installed with Classic Networking (that is, it uses MacTCP) then you're stuck at 10.3 at maximum (Panther would mount the 7.5 box, not the other way around).

It would be helpful to know what is already on the 7100/80s hard disk for network stuff, such as FTP clients.

There's a couple of ways to go. To set up Ethernet, you just need the AAUI dongle attached, a straight RJ45 cable to the router plugged in. Head to Network control panel and choose Ethernet. Head to the Chooser, if AppleTalk is on, which it should be by default, then click AppleShare. Because 10.5 cannot share to systems this old, we'll have to get more information on how you'd like to proceed.
 
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