I'm not sure if this is related. But when I upgraded from my power pc mac mini to my mac pro I did the migration assistant and it worked perfectly. It treat the mac mini as an external FireWire drive. So I would think you could just clone to a FireWire drive and it would work just as well ad if you did a mac to mac migration.
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Jerry Freeman <x12 at insightbb.comic wrote: > i've not read any documentation as to specifically what migration > assistant transfers. you can direct migrate assistant to only import > your home folder, but that's where most of the junk resides. i will > migrate libraries and reset preferences by hand. i did a clean > install on a zeroed disk for tiger with everything installed manually > and had zero problems since. best...jf > > On Oct 21, 2007, at 4:51 PM, b3studios wrote: > >> would doing a clean install of Leopard then using migration >> assistant, bring over any undesired junk from Tiger? >> Specifiaclly, I would like to have all my mail, preferences, photos >> (keywords!), music etc. preserved, but would like as fresh a Leopard >> install as possible. >> I don't mind re-installing my apps, just not all the little user >> stuff I've gotten just how I want it over the past two years... >> >> Rick > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
