[Nobody]

Hello,
I failed the mission of transferring my iTunes from my old IMac G3 (Sonnet HARMONi upgrade) to my new iMac G5. I was using the Setup Assistant from the Utilities folder. I had a 6-6 Firewire cable connected between the two iMacs. I followed the Setup Assistant by restarting the old iMac I was transferring the iTunes from. From what I searched for help in the "More Info" in the Setup assistant, the Mac must have built-in Firewire and support Firewire Target Disk Mode and says "most do". Now that I gone thru the process and failed to transfer my iTunes files, I'm having a hunch that my old iMac upgrade with Firewire is the few of "some don't" support Firewire Target Disk Mode. Any ideas on my problem?
Spec:
Old iMac G3, Sonnet G3 HARMONi 500MHz, 512MB RAM, 6GB HD, OSX 10.3.6
New iMac G5, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, OSX 10.3.8

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
I could be mistaken but I'm willing to bet that FTDM is only available on Macs that have [Apple] built-in FireWire ports and "add-on" ones.

[Nobody]

I was hoping the problem is a small glitch I could easliy fix. I know the Firewire port worked before because I had a 40GB Firewire(FW) HD I had used for storage of my digtal Macworld mags and iTunes file backup and other miscellanous stuff before I bought my new iMac. I use the FW HD for my new iMac now. I still need my iTunes original files from the old iMac. The iMac G5 iTunes won't see the backup iTunes files in the FW HD. I have to launch the backup iTunes to get my account. That is actually the problem here. But fixing the FTDM problem is also good deal.
I had my new desk put together this weekend and I have both iMacs functioning and now needs to be network together. I bought fairly cheap Comp USA 5 port ethernet hub which I could probably use for file transfer but I had not figure it out it yet or put the network together.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
I'm sure the port works but I would believe that FTDM doesn't work on an "add-on" FW port.
To transfer the Playlists, play counts, ... Copy the iTunes Library files from /Users/short_username/Music/iTunes to the same location on the new iMac. Of course, your music will have to be in the same place as it was before, default is in the same directory but in the iTunes Music folder.

[Nobody]

OK, I try that.

[Arne]

OK, maybe it's just me, but...
FTDM only needs to be activated on one computer, which will then show up as an external drive on the other.
If you old iMac is a non-FTDMable machine, why not starting the new one in FTDM, connecting both and copy?
Does the old one necessarily has to show up as FTDM; why not the new one?
Puzzled,
arne

[Nobody]

OK, I just figured I don't backup my HD. I backup single files at a time. It's the drag and drop backup. The low tech non-retail sort of backup thing. And for that matter, iTunes absolutely refuses to get backed up that way. My original iTunes files are stuck in my old iMac There is no Firewire Taget Disk Mode and it won't function between the old and new iMacs. I think I blamed that on Sonnet's upgrade. They haven't supported Firewire for Panther. I assumed that is why my Firewire is not functioning in FTDM.
My other question is: Can authorizing another computer,in a sense my Firewire HD, could enable my new iMac use the iTunes files in the Firewire HD?
I'm getting worried here because I'm almost set to but a mini iPod. I'm missing out to listening to tunes. I could listen to tunes all day long. Day in day out, every day. My hears are going deaf without tunes. I'm tired of FM radio fade in/out, static, ads and the jocks attention and the guy that plays Mariachi on the radio all day long. Tejano is OK, but I rather listen to rock and roll pop music, babeee. I guess I'm going to beat my ears with FM radio for awhile.
The other question is: How does authorizing another computer works? I'm hoping this is the solution my issue.
The fact to matter is I gotta have this fix because I got cash flow going left to right under my nose!!!! In other words it seems I got a steady job.