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<FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>on 3/17/05 10:35 PM, Nick Scalise at nickscalise@mac.com wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Andale Mono"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><TT>On Mar 17, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Kansas Territory wrote:<BR>
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> On Mar 17, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:<BR>
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>> On Mar 17, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Kansas Territory wrote:<BR>
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>>> I've been using a G4/450 for several years now. running latest <BR>
>>> version of OSX.<BR>
>>> Got a new/used Dual G4<BR>
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>>> Is there some simple way.. I can take what I got on the old G4.. and <BR>
>>> move it ALL over to the new computer..<BR>
>>> I spent so long getting the old computer JUST HOW I WANT IT. And <BR>
>>> the idea of starting over just really bothers me.<BR>
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>>> I used to do this all the time with OS9, reformat a drive and start <BR>
>>> over. But with OSX, I've been updating this old G4 since OSX came <BR>
>>> out.. one update on top of another<BR>
>>> and it's been working great. Just want everything I got on the <BR>
>>> faster computer.<BR>
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>> What OS is on the newer computer?<BR>
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>> Mac OS 10.3.4 and newer came with Migration Assistant. You boot your <BR>
>> old Mac in Firewire Target disk mode, connect to the new one and the <BR>
>> Assistant does the rest. I hear it works pretty well.<BR>
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>> Or, you could boot your newer G4 in Target disk mode, connect to your <BR>
>> old one and use carbon copy cloner to clone your old drive to your <BR>
>> new G4.<BR>
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> thanks for the reply.<BR>
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> Where do I find this "Migration Assistant" ? I'm running 10.3.8 on <BR>
> both machines.<BR>
> Didn't see it in Applications or Utilities, or System Prefs<BR>
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It's called Setup Assistant (sorry, not Migration Assistant) and it <BR>
should be in the Utilities directory. But unless you bought 10.3 after <BR>
10.3.4 or so, you may not have it. It also started coming installed <BR>
with new machines at around the same version.<BR>
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However, it is only 160k, I might be persuaded to send you mine...<BR>
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I don’t have it with 10.3.8. Perhaps it only comes with the new-machine version?<BR>
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Regards, Jim Muckerheide <BR>
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