John Carmonne <[email protected]> Mar 06 11:51AM -0800 ^
On Mar 6, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Migration Assistant. You SHOULD be asked during the setup for the new
Macbook.
I just thought of something I know the new MBPs no longer have FW
ports so how do you use Migration Assistant with a QS to a new MBP?
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
I first began by connecting my MB (on Snow) to my internet network
coming out of my G4 (on Tiger). I went to Migrant Assistant on both
machines. Yes there were instructions but I got cold feet because of
the length of time it said to do the job - need my G4 for work all
the time!
Truth is I just don't know how all this stuff works! I realised later
that I should not tick the apps for transfer, that would save much time.
Was going to go offline and try to connect ethernet cable directly
between G4 and MB when I had the idea of simply using the FW/USB
external backup I always use (on FW) to back up the G4 via
SuperDuper. So I grabbed the external HD and connected a USB cable to
MB and went to Migrant Assistant. Took less than an hour with Apps
not ticked! I unhooked the external HD then and looked at the MB.
The result? Confusion! At least confusion in me! It stuck most of the
transfer from the G4 into a folder. It did something to the MB
settings too because when I came to log on again with the MB there
were were new login accounts. When I went into the normal prior MB
user account, I saw no new expected bookmarks in my Cyberduck, no
usual expected mail boxes in Mail.
I have got half success by going to individual programs and trying to
tell them to import from this or that folder/file (which at least is
now on my MB due to the actions of Migrant Assistant). I got more
success by tracking down files from the G4 library and simply copying
them to replace things on the MB (stuff like "Favorites.plist" and
"Queue.plist")!
But I was hoping that somehow there would be a more global automatic
way of succeeding!
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