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    question on migration assistant

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Superczar, Oct 30, 2008.

  1. Superczar

    Superczar Notebook Consultant

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    So I have this 2 mnth old Macbook (white) that I am about to sell off and get a new one (alu :D) tomorrow
    Catch is,... the old one needs to go out tomorrow while the new one won't be in my hands till next week

    Now migration assistant requires the other Mac to be connected before transitioning the data out
    However, I need to backup my personal data from the existing mac to an external HD , clean it up before shipping it out and then transistion the entire personal data to the new one once it reaches

    What would be the most elegant method other than copying my personal folders and manually copying them back
     
    Superczar, Oct 30, 2008
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Well, for elegant (since you can't use the old Firewire migration assistant with the new aluminum Macbook at all - FW port is gone):
    If you're running Leopard on the MB, use an external HDD and do a full Time Machine backup. Then go here at the Apple website and look at the section in right column "Migration with style" for discussion on how to use Time Machine to do a disk clone from old to new Mac. This (restores) the new MB to an exact replica of the old one, and now in a new shell.

    Non-elegant:
    Burn all your personal data to DVDs. Copy them to the new MB hard drive when you have it. Still have to replace and reinstall all your other software and utilities, etc.
     
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  3. Superczar

    Superczar Notebook Consultant

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    gee, thanks
    I didnt realize migration assistant could use TM backups as the data source

    Seems like it should be simple enough..
    Tx again
     
    Superczar, Oct 30, 2008
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