Apple :: How Best To Move Files From An Old Mac To A New Ubuntu Box
Jun 10, 2010
Last fall I got a new Linux desktop computer from System76. Before that, I had a 1997-era beige G3 Mac. (This Mac is pre-USB plugs.)
I still have files on that old Mac that I need to move to the new machine. Some are text files and various other kinds of files, but mostly, they're image files, and there's a lot of them.
The Mac has a SCSI port and an Ethernet port. No Firewire, no USB.
My question: What's the best way to move the files from the old to the new machine?
(I think it would be a hassle to try to e-mail them, as I have quite a lot of image files on the Mac.)
Also, if some of the files (like text-files?) that are in Mac format can't be read once on a Linux OS, how would I make the necessary conversions?
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Aug 18, 2009
Being relatively new both to Linux and this forum, i am sorry if i make a post that already is, evn though i couldn`t find it.My problem is i can`t move downloaded files over to root filesystem, i have downloaded and unpacked them to files. to change it`s looks and downloaded a skin, i open root, go to usr---> amsn ---> share --> skins, now i am to copy the file of the skin over to the root directory, butI also tried alt+f2, writing sudo conqueror, as an advice i got, but there was noe difference.
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Dec 17, 2009
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May 5, 2010
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I would like to set up a keyboard shortcut, but I don't know what the command is to "move to trash" as opposed to simply removing a file. Anyone know how I can do this? I just want to get ctrl-del (I have command mapped to ctrl) to move files to trash like in OS X.
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Feb 20, 2010
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Feb 10, 2011
copy a list of fileswhich has some unique string e.g
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filename_3dec_2010.tar
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Jul 15, 2010
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Sep 11, 2010
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May 14, 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
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Nov 20, 2010
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Aug 21, 2010
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Jun 24, 2011
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for entry in `ls /root/shared_storage/input`; do
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run=`lsof /root/shared_storage/input/$entry`
ru=${run:0:5}
echo $entry
if [ "$ru" == "" ]; then
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