[X-Newbies] Migration Assistant

[Richard Ramsowr]

You lucky dog...what a problem you have there -  but
do have a happy holiday!

How about having the apple store folks do the work for
you?

rich
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--- Chris Walker <chris at mymac.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Santa came early so I've just got my shiny new G5 -
> dual core 2ghz with
> 1gb Ram.  I'm now looking at getting all my stuff
> from the old machine
> to the new.
> 
> The old machine has one account 'Mars' running as
> admin.  The new one
> will have two accounts Saturn' as admin and 'BigC'
> as user.  At present
> BigC is enabled as admin but this will drop back to
> user when all the
> installations are done.  My aim was to create a new
> 'clean' machine
> which will last for my usual 4/5 years.
> 
> I'm already having problems with permissions so I
> wondered whether to go
> the easy route and simply duplicate the old machine
> via the Migration
> Assistant.  Only problem is that all the accumulated
> crud (apps that
> were tried and not used, ancient prefs, whatever
> else that might be
> lurking etc) on the old machines comes to the new.
> 
> Anyone any experience with migration assistant or
> could suggest any way
> round the permissions problems?
> 
> All help gratefully received.  :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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