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iPhone Backup Extractor for Tiger 10.4
Do you have plans to make an iPhone Backup Extractor for users of Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 ?
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Inappropriate?I do not have plans to build a Tiger version of this application.
The current version is heavily dependent on features that are specific to the Leopard 10.5 API and so the application would require a lot of re-writing to work on Tiger. I will however do my best to make sure that it works with the new version of Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard as soon as it becomes available.
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Inappropriate?Ok, so I have iPhone memory on my iTunes and I no longer have the phone. Since my computer is Tiger, even if I get Leopard I will have to erase everything on my computer in order to run it right? And there's no way to then get my iPhone files out?
Or can I install Leopard and not have a problem with iTunes old files?
Another question. I have 2 macs, a laptop running tiger and a g5 running leopard...can i transfer the itunes/iphone files somehow?2 Comments Add a comment
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Adriana-
You should be able to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard without losing data, although I would always recommend backing up beforehand, just in case.
Alternatively, if you would like to copy your iPhone data from one machine to the other, the iPhone Backup files are located in your Home folder, under ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup.
Within that folder, you'll find a folder that corresponds to each instance of an iPhone backup -- the folders are named with a long string of numbers and letters, and inside each folder is a series of .mddata and .mdinfo files, along with Info.plist, Manifest.plist, and Status.plist.
If you quit iTunes on both machines, copy the *folder* (the one with the long garbled number/letter combo name) that corresponds to the backup you wish to extract (should be determined based on the modification date/time stamp of the folder) from the old (10.4) machine into the same ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup location on the new (10.5) machine, then run Backup Extractor, you should be able to read that backup file and extract the info you need.
If that was less than clear, check out http://forums.macnn.com/103/ipod-ipho... -- they assist through that discussion in honing in on the backup file location as well.
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Ben is right, copying the folder between machines will work and is a far quicker process than upgrading to Leopard.
If you do choose to upgrade, I'd recommend going straight to Snow Leopard (10.6) instead of Leopard.
