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Old October 11th, 2009, 02:10 PM
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Migration help

Hello,

Hoping I can find help here.

I have an old mac that is running 10.4. I just bought a new Mac that is running 10.5. I have an external fire wire drive to back up to. Does anyone know of an easy way to migrate all my apps, email folders, settings, docs, etc...? I used to use retrospect express in the past when I have migrated from one comp to another because it was easy... backup complete volume to external drive... restore complete volume to new comp from external drive, but in this case I don't have that option because I bought the new comp on ebay and would like to keep the new operating system with all my stuff from my old comp. I can't seem to figure it out with backup. Any help, please?
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Old October 11th, 2009, 02:20 PM
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Your best option is applications/utilities/migration assistant and there is no purpose in me saying the rest because you have a firewire so you just need to follow the directions when its launched. Your apps and data will be moved but it will all be moved to the newer OS. If you already created a user on the newer machine you will run into transfer issues if the user is the same as in the old machine.
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