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| Started by | RonTheGuy@null.invalid (Ron) |
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| First post | 2014-07-26 16:48 -0700 |
| Last post | 2014-07-27 11:20 -0700 |
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Migration assistant question RonTheGuy@null.invalid (Ron) - 2014-07-26 16:48 -0700
Re: Migration assistant question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-27 00:25 +0000
Re: Migration assistant question Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-27 13:10 +1200
Re: Migration assistant question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-27 11:03 -0400
Re: Migration assistant question Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-07-27 11:20 -0700
| From | RonTheGuy@null.invalid (Ron) |
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| Date | 2014-07-26 16:48 -0700 |
| Subject | Migration assistant question |
| Message-ID | <1lpeh9k.1cma182y50yk0N%RonTheGuy@null.invalid> |
Got my daughter an MBP for college. She started putting photos and stuff on it before I had a chance to bring her files over from her old MacBook with Migration Assistant. If I use MI now, will it overwrite anything already on the MBP? -- _____________________________ Ron, the humblest guy in town
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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
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| Date | 2014-07-27 00:25 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <c3iv74F1vpkU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #62470 |
On 2014-07-26, Ron <RonTheGuy@null.invalid> wrote: > Got my daughter an MBP for college. She started putting photos and stuff > on it before I had a chance to bring her files over from her old MacBook > with Migration Assistant. If I use MI now, will it overwrite anything > already on the MBP? Is she using Time Machine? If so, you'd have a fairly easy way to restore anything that went missing during migration. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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| From | Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> |
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| Date | 2014-07-27 13:10 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <270720141310286500%YourName@YourISP.com> |
| In reply to | #62470 |
In article <1lpeh9k.1cma182y50yk0N%RonTheGuy@null.invalid>, Ron <RonTheGuy@null.invalid> wrote: > Got my daughter an MBP for college. She started putting photos and stuff > on it before I had a chance to bring her files over from her old MacBook > with Migration Assistant. If I use MI now, will it overwrite anything > already on the MBP? Not if you migrate the old data to a new user account, but then she'll have two user accounts and have to manually move files from one to the other ... which may not be a real problem since most people collect piles of garbage they never look at again anyway.
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| From | nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> |
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| Date | 2014-07-27 11:03 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <270720141103472494%nospam@nospam.invalid> |
| In reply to | #62470 |
In article <1lpeh9k.1cma182y50yk0N%RonTheGuy@null.invalid>, Ron <RonTheGuy@null.invalid> wrote: > Got my daughter an MBP for college. She started putting photos and stuff > on it before I had a chance to bring her files over from her old MacBook > with Migration Assistant. If I use MI now, will it overwrite anything > already on the MBP? you can migrate afterwards, but it will create a new account and you're likely to have permissions headaches.
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| From | Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> |
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| Date | 2014-07-27 11:20 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <lr3ftb$efn$1@news.datemas.de> |
| In reply to | #62470 |
On 2014-07-26 23:48:09 +0000, Ron said: > Got my daughter an MBP for college. She started putting photos and stuff > on it before I had a chance to bring her files over from her old MacBook > with Migration Assistant. If I use MI now, will it overwrite anything > already on the MBP? I'd just make sure that the user accounts on the new and old machines aren't the same and that all the file she's added are IN her new acccount's home folder. Migration assistant will then create a second account on the new machine and she can consolidate from there.
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