On 1/7/12 7:15 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 7, 2012, at 8:42 AM, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Why not just use a file manager utility to move your wanted files?
The simple old fashioned way to batch process ?
Because tools like Migration Assistant take care of all the niggling little
issues of moving account information over and find EVERYTHING, doing
repetitive, mindless tasks like a gorram computer SHOULD, freeing up the human
mind for tasks better suited to our unique processing power ....:-)
Very well said. Having done this very same migration numerous times,
there is one gotcha - let Migration Assistant create the new user on the
new (target) machine and not update an existing account. Otherwise,
weird things happen with permissions.
Stephen
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