Hello Lisette, I have never made nor used any time machine backups so cannot speak to how it works.
However, when I purchased my new Mac, a couple of months ago, I simply connected it to my old Mac and the migration assistant worked perfectly, the first time. Since then I have used the Migration Assistant several times and each time it worked flawlessly. Once I connected the two Macs via Ethernet cable and once, I connected them via FireWire cable. Of course, I could have simply let them talk to each other via WiFi but doing so would have taken much longer to complete the transfer. Good Luck, Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisette Wesseling Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 9:57 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Migration assistant question Hi folks, Just wondering which method of copying data from one mac to another is most efficient or most likely to get everything across properly? I have a time machine back up, with everything checked. Is it best to use this time machine back up with migration assistant, or try to do it by connecting both macs up together. I want to try to get my VO settings and all other programme settings across, plus iPhotos I have imported and obviously iTunes and all my documents. Any advice gratefully received as I prepare to buy a new Mac and deal with the headache of getting it set up the way I like. Thanks Lisette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
