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Post #401,958 by rcareaga 5/21/15 10:55:18 PM Reply	migration At some point this year or next I will probably move beyond my trusty 24" iMac (vintage 2008, I believe) and acquire a more advanced model—probably still an iMac rather than a Pro—that will likely see me to the end of my career in 2019. But Apple has killed Firewire, and I have a couple of these drives (including one that has kept on ticking for a dozen years) here and at work that I'd like to let down easy. Looking for bridge solutions. cord-ially,
Post #401,960 by static 5/21/15 11:11:45 PM Reply	Apple sells such adapters. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #401,961 by Another Scott 5/21/15 11:13:22 PM Reply	Yet another $29 adapter. Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter. I haven't tried that myself, but it (or something like it) should work. There's a FW800 to FW400 coupler that might be handy, too. (I assume you have all the other cables you need already.) HTH! Cheers, Scott.
Post #401,962 by rcareaga 5/21/15 11:26:23 PM Reply	I'm oddly sentimental ...about the one Firewire drive that has meekly spun these past twelve or thirteen years after other, younger drives have failed both at home and at work. This one is more like the legendary Centennial Light in nearby Livermore. cordially,
Post #401,963 by Another Scott 5/21/15 11:43:11 PM Reply	Be careful turning it off. Things like that seem to like to die when going from power off to power on, at least in my case. We had an X-ray system die at work this month after it was turned off for the first time in several years (one of the power supplies that seems to die about every 10 years died again). :-/ No doubt you're going to tell me that you turn it off every day. ;-) Good luck with the transfer. Don't depend on it working though (have other backups)! Cheers, Scott. (Whose grandpa had an ancient light bulb on his porch, but it wasn't quite that old. Maybe 40 years?)
Post #401,966 by pwhysall 5/22/15 1:16:02 AM Reply	^^ This Take a copy of the contents of that disk whilst it's still spinning.
Post #401,985 by a6l6e6x 5/22/15 4:52:44 PM Reply	You could just use your USB attached Time Machine hard drive. Your OSX version on both machines probably needs to be current. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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