[Macpartners] Moving e-messages to a new Mac

[Brian Bulmer]

A nice trick I use on moving from an older to a newer Mac. If you have  
another admin account on the machine, or just create a temp one. You  
can go into the Accounts System Preference panel and delete the user  
you want to retain all info and settings for, while saving all data to  
a disk image.

Enter System Preferences -> Accounts Preference pane.
Select the user you want to preserve and choose the option to delete  
the user. (I know, I  know, it sounds foolish.)
When asked how you want to remove it, choose the option to "Save the  
users home directory as a disk image".
It will then create a disk image in the /Users/Deleted Users/ folder.

Now, if you burn that disk image off to CD, or DVD, depending on size  
of course, at any later date with the media mounted you can actually  
use the migration assistant to import the users "From another volume  
on this Mac". This will bring back all your preferences, mail,  
bookmarks, documents, etc. You can also restore it back to the same  
Mac if you have mixed emotions on abandoning the old Mac.

Note: This does not bring over, or preserve applications. This has to  
be done with the method of the Macs connected via firewire using the  
migration assistant  and Target disk ode.

I have to say, I've used the migration assistant many times, and  
almost always extremely pleased with the results.


Just my 2¢ worth......

Brian

On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Charles Leiserson wrote:

>> I have a new Mac... a Leopard instead of a Panther... and I'm
>> struggling with moving things in.  My boss picked up the whole Mail
>> program for me (among other things) and dropped it into my Leopard...
>> but as the weeks go by, I'm finding there are important pieces of
>> email that got left behind.  I still have my Panther, and can find  
>> the
>> information on it... but eventually I'll have to give up the old cat
>
> I know it's probably too late for this to help, but I always move my  
> entire home directory (at least) when I migrate to a new computer.   
> That way, I've saved all of my settings, mail (if I'm storing it  
> there), files, backgrounds, etc.
>
> Leopard will automatically convert older configurations when they  
> load, and they'll end up as close to the original as possible.  For  
> example, it will keep all of your Dock icons in the same order when  
> you upgrade.  It will also preserve all of your application settings  
> (like bookmarks), even though the app itself is new.
>
>
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> 					- Ricky
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