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Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite

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In article <120120151841194205%otto@bogus.address.com>, Otto Pylot
<otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:

> My wife's MacBook died (video cable) so it was a good time to buy a new
> laptop. She gets my mid-2011 MacBook Air (Mavericks) and I have a new
> MacBook Air (Yosemite) on order. I don't use Time Machine but do have
> my Mavericks Air backed up via CCC on an external HD.
> 
> Moving/reinstalling apps is fairly straight forward but my concern is
> Mail. When I moved up from the old MacBook to the Air, I used Migration
> Assistant and that was a real mess. It took Apple about an hour to get
> my Mail folders, etc migrated successfully to the new Air and setup the
> way I wanted. Being as I'm starting with a brand new, and clean system
> (Yosemite) I'd like to keep it that way and not move any items I don't
> want or have any use for. All I see is the Mail app in the Applications
> Folder and can't find anything else Mail-related that I could copy
> over. I don't even see a plist for Mail.
> 
> Is there a way to copy/paste my Mail folder to Yosemite so that all my
> received/sent mail and mail folders are still intact? Should I just
> create new folders and then copy/paste the contents from Mavericks to
> Yosemite, including my received/sent emails?


Why not use CCC the way it's supposed to work- start from the external
and clone it right back to the new machine? 

Or if you don't like the idea of wiping your new machine, plug in your
external the first time you start the new machine and use Migration
Assistant. It really does work well. I don't know why you had problems
before. You shouldn't have to move anything. Just when you start the
new machine, create a test user- don't use the username that you have
on the external. You can delete the test user later.

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m-m
http://www.mhmyers.com

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Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-01-12 18:41 -0800
  Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-13 18:26 +1300
  Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-01-13 00:35 -0500
    Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-13 19:03 +1300
      Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-01-13 15:06 -0500

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