[X4U] migrating from one computer to another-follow-up

[Richard Gilmore]

I'm going to be getting a iMac G5 soon and will need to move everything from
my G4. Can I connect the two machines via a FW cable and use this Setup
Assistant to transfer everything?


> From: John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:03:35 -0800
> To: <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] migrating from one computer to another-follow-up
> 
> On 03/18/05, Nick Scalise <nickscalise at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 12:13PM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/17/05, Kansas Territory <kansast at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Where do I find this "Migration Assistant" ?   I'm running 10.3.8 on
>>>> both machines. Didn't see it in Applications or Utilities, or System Prefs
>>> 
>>> BTW, if the Setup Assistant isn't in /Applications or in /Utilities, look
>>> in /System/Library/CoreServices/.
>> 
>> On 10.3.8 on my Pismo, the Setup Assistant in
>> /System/Library/CoreServices/ is the 'Internet' Setup Assistant. It does
>> not ask if I want to transfer files from one Mac to another.
>> 
>> Much different than the one I was speaking of.
> 
> I stand corrected. Since I don't have a "new" machine, there is no Setup
> Assistant in /Utilities and mistakenly thought the one in CoreServices
> would do the trick-apparently Setup Assistant is only available on the
> machines that shipped with 10.3.4 or later.
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