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Re: Migration assistant question

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Migration assistant question
Date 2014-07-27 13:10 +1200
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <270720141310286500%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References <1lpeh9k.1cma182y50yk0N%RonTheGuy@null.invalid>

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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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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

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