Thanks Peter

I'll give it a try.

Is there any value of using anything other than Safari?

Stuart Breden
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On 29/03/2010, at 9:02 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:


On 28/03/2010, at 8:06 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:


Another issue with all this new stuff.

I've migrated the information from my old G5 iMac to a new Intel
21.5-inch: 3.06GHz 500GB hard drive iMac.

Not every thing migrated.
 migrated
Internet Explorer did not come.  That is easy to get.

Not so much. Microsoft discontinued development of Internet Explorer in 2003, and discontinued support at the end of 2005. It was removed from their downloads site in January 2006. While it was considered a decent browser int its day, it has long outlived its use by date. Perhaps one reason it wasn't migrated is that it is not supported even by Apple on Intel Macs. Some of the problems are outlined here <http://www.soft32.com/download_195159.html >. You're much better off with pretty much any modern Mac OS X browser. You will have Safari 4 already on your new Mac, or you can download one of a dozen alternatives such as Firefox.

However what did not migrate was OS Mail.


Suggestions?

When using Migration Assistance can you move individual applications e.g. Mail?

It is not normal for your mail not to migrate. It's difficult to comment further without knowing more about the settings you used when doing the migration. Mail itself would have been migrated since it's already on your new Mac. Your old mail files will still be on your old Mac in /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Mail. Your old mail preferences will be in /Users/Library/ Preferences (com.apple.mail.plist). Copy these two items across to their corresponding locations on your new Mac and every should work. Check to see that they're not already there first, though.




Peter Hinchliffe



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