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Heyyy there, My 2007 (80gb) macbook has just recently started to black-out. I’ve only used it (and probably the only reason I bought it) for the old GarageBand app, which I’ve managed to amass quite a number of tracks with. I’m told that due to costs I’d be better off buying a new one instead of fixing it. With the black-out I can’t use the mac and therefore want to transfer all the information to a newer model which, when I say newer, I mean a model made 2 to 5 yrs later, so ‘09-‘12. Again, I found I can’t do that as the software is incompatible, or unsupported. Can I just remove the Hard drive from the ‘07 mac and replace the HD in the other models with the ‘07 HD, and will it work inspite of the later models operating on slightly more updated OS versions? Another option, I’m told, is to put the old HD into a caddy and use it as an external one. With that, as straight forward as it is still leaves me with the whole software incompatibility issue.> Is there any way of making OS X Lion Garageband work with El Capitan without having to faff about too much? My Third question is this: My 2009 Mac (10.11), despite running Lion won’t play, or fully support the Garageband app from the 2007 mac - it indicates that there are instruments missing, probably meaning it’s own version of Lion is slightly more updated. Again, is there anything I can do to make the 2009 Lion Mac fully support the Lion apps from the 2007 Mac? Warm regards, Ell
Despite the fact that later machines are capable of running on later Os versions consider that Lion came out only in 2011, therefore until that date all machines would be able to start off your present hard drive with Lion installed. From there on, you would be able to further update your Os until the desired Os version. Since I’m not a musician I haven’t any idea on how Garageband would update or behave or whether would make your Mac’s old drive selfdestroy at sight. I hope somebody will be able to help with that, as that’s beyond my knowledge.
The best is to use Time machine to transfer data from an old hard drive to a new one. I would make sure you logged into the App store at least once. That way you can download the latest versions of Garage band and and iLife on a clean install.
While you can’t swap the drives within the system you can use Migration Assitant to move your stuff over either via Target Disk Mode or better yet taking the drive fully out and using this: Startech 2.5" SATA to USB adapter Here’s a good detailed YouTube: Using Apple Migration Assistant Once you get everything moved over see if it works then. You might need to open the app up to copy over the instrument file. The only risk is your older system is 32bit and your newer one is 64bit.
