Hi Mark, I may soon be having to use the migration assistant so I was very interested in your experience of having done so. Can you outline the steps required to connect thee two macs via ethernet cable? I have a notion that one of them has to be started in a particular mode. Is this true?
Many thanks Andrew > On 2 Dec 2014, at 07:55, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
