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Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac)

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In article <25CdnXIOmaZ9z9rPnZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2013.09.28 17:45 , Your Name wrote:
> > In article <xsqdnZZmyZ6-bNvPnZ2dnUVZ_uSdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> > <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> >> On 2013.09.28 11:05 , Király wrote:
> >>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> So it got here.  In the end I ran Setup Assistant - and wish I had used
> >>>> Migration instead.
> >>>
> >>> I really don't think so. Had you opted for Migration Assistant, you
> >>> would have had an identical list of issues that you reported here, and
> >>> then a whole bunch of other ones on top of that. Be glad you did what
> >>> you did.
> >>
> >> I disagree.
> >>
> >> Yes, the issues I had I would have had, but the file copy would not have
> >> brought any issues (the Empson replies regarding UID refer).
> >
> > Personally I never use either when setting up a new computer. It's far
> > easier and safer to simply copy the user's own documents manually and
> > reinstall the applications from the original installer. That way you
> > also avoid copying across corrupted files, garbage files, etc.
> 
> I used to agree with that, but I'd now say that most will work fine and 
> whatever breaks can be fixed easily enough.  The only post transfer app 
> issue I had was Thunderbird not logging in properly to one password 
> access account.  That took all of 30 seconds to fix.  Oh, and the 
> transferred sys-monitor app that didn't work (other post) and that was 
> just an issue of deleting it - hadn't used it in years.

If you have the space and are keeping both computers (at least for a
while), then it's often better to not copy anything at all. Just set-up
the new computer totally fresh and then copy across your own documents
from the old computer as and when you need them. Anything left on the
old computer after (for example) six months is probably never going to
be used again anyway.

The other option is to clone the hard drive of the old computer to an
external drive (or remove the computer's hard drive and put it in an
external case), and then use the above "copy as needed" approach.

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What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 08:25 -0400
  Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 10:54 -0400
  Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-09-28 15:05 +0000
    Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 11:09 -0400
      Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-09-29 09:45 +1200
        Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 18:06 -0400
          Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-09-29 11:31 +1200
        Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-28 21:00 -0400
  Re: What broke during Setup Assistant (new iMac) / last fix Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-28 13:31 -0400

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