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Migrating user data between computers

Migrating user data, accounts, applications between computers, often involving Migration Assistant on OS X.

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Migrating to new iMac, what does Migration Assistant actually migrate?

I've got a new iMac (Santa must have thought I was a good boy this year) and I want to move data from my 3 year old MacBook (Intel, running Snow Leopard). I realise I have a few options for this, but migration assistant is currently looking better…
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How can I transfer data from a G5 iMac to an i7 iMac?

Today's my mother's birthday, and hey gift is a new iMac. Her older iMac has a G5 processor, and is thus stuck on Leopard. She also has an older version of iLife. What will be the best way to transfer the data? Does the migration assistant work well…
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Transfer disk image from one MacBook Air to another

I'd like to migrate into a new MacBook Air I bought this week, from the previous version of MacBook Air. SSD size is the same. Can I somehow image my older SSD and "move" it to the new SSD?
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How can I migrate data when Migration Assistant doesn't recognize Time Machine external drive?

I'm trying to migrate my files from my time machine backup (external drive 500 Gb) to my MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.1. It has almost empty brand new internal hard drive 500 Gb. I can see the external hard drive in the desktop (is connected to my…
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Git missing after OSX migration

Possible Duplicate: Why is Git not found after installing OS X Lion? I've recently migrated from an old mac pro with leopard to a new mac pro with snow leopard, everything seems to have gone right so far during the migration process, however I…
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Migrating from one computer to another

The screen on my daughter's iMac went partially bad and so I just bought her an interim Mac (basically the same model that she had before). I'm in the process of trying to do the migration from the old one to the new one. Her old computer was…
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Migrating from Old to Less-Old Mac - any other specific issues?

Scenario - I have a new Mac, and am giving my old one to my father-in-law. He now has an old Gx Gumdrop iMac running 10.3 (I think), and the new-to-him mac is an older Core2 iMac running 10.6 From How can I transfer data from a G5 iMac to an i7…
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Peer-to-peer transfer during migration extremely slow

I have one 2019 MacBook and a 2021 MacBook Pro connected to each other via the Thunderbolt ports to do a migration. Given there are only about 700 files to transfer, I would expect it to take less than 2 hours tops. Instead it is transferring at…
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Moving from Windows to Mac...a few questions on data migration

I was using Bootcamp on an iMac27 (2017) for a variety of reasons I decided to go back to using Mac natively. I was backing up all my data from Windows to 2 external RAID Drobo devices (5C and 5D). My issue is that my original Windows bootcamp…
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User Data Migration from HFS+ Disk Image

I got the following source: the disk image of a iMac4,1 Intel32 from 2006 running the preinstalled 10.4.4 target: an iMac6,1 Intel32 from 2006 running the preinstalled 10.4.7 This use case isn't covered from the migration assistant, so: Is there…
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Migration Assistant: target computer freezes mid-transfer (screen black, unresponsive)

I am running Migration Assistant (over a network) to transfer an old Mac's setup to a new one. The process starts fine, but every time I try it the target computer freezes mid-transfer (at the moment the source computer has shown '9 hours 34…
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Mac OS X 10.6.8 server migration to new hardware (not Lion)

I have a aging iMac with 10.6.8 server, user accounts in OD, and user shares. We have a newer mac mini with 10.6.8 server that I want to transfer over to. Can you tell me the steps/document to help me accomplish this? I see the apple doc for xfer…
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Migrations Assistant - Best way to transfer data?

I'm thinking of using Migration Assistant to transfer data to my new Mac, but what is the best way to do this? I have a Time Machine Back up on a Time Capsule, but this would be over wifi, so slow? I guess target disk mode is out, as my MacBook only…
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I interrupted a transfer with Migration Assistant (wirelessly)...am I in trouble?

This is my first post...I was attempting to help a friend with my first-ever data transfer using Migration Assistant. Before I was expecting it to start copying (I was expecting it to allow me to name a transfer file on the target location), the…
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Migrating from one Macbook to another

I am planning on selling my Macbook Pro and buying a new Macbook Retina, however I'd like to sell my current one first before I buy the new laptop, so I need a way of migrating all my stuff from my current laptop to the new one without having the…
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