Jeff Weinberger spake on Friday 30-Nov-2012@16:47:47 > Hi: > > Second question of the day (thank you for your patience and help!). > > I just ordered the new iMac, and hope it will arrive sometime this year (read > that sarcastically). > > Right now, I have an ancient iMac which was my main computer, but now barely > functions. It has many of my files, settings, etc. As it degraded, I started > to use my user account on my wife's much-newer iMac, which now has some of my > newer files and newer settings, and other stuff I want. > > The easiest way for me to start with a new computer is to restore it from a > (e.g. time machine) backup. > > Is there any equivalent process that can merge these two user account on > different iMacs into the one?
No. > or am I dreaming? Yes. Find the files you want on the old iMac and get them onto the newer iMac in preparation for the migration,. If you ordered a 27" model you have until Xmas or New Years to get it done. > Any ideas are very much appreciated! Alternately, create a new user (Jeff Alt) on the wife's iMac and migrate your old account now, then migrate both this accounts to your new machine. Select the alt account in the finder and under permissions add your main account with rw access and apply to enclosed folders. -- It would be a pretty good bet that the gods of a world like this probably do not play chess and indeed this is the case. In fact no gods anywhere play chess. They haven't got the imagination. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religions is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
