[X4U] Migrate without Firewire link.

[Neil Laubenthal]

Do you have a USB drive? That will work with Migration Assistant. You  
might also be able to start MA and then connect across ethernet to  
the old machine . . .although I haven't tried this.


On Jan 19, 2007, at 13:37, John Erdman wrote:

>
> My current iMac G5's Firewire ports died about 9 months ago and is  
> unusable. I expect a new Intel iMac to arrive today. All the  
> instructions for the Migration Assistant seem to assume that  
> Firewire is present and healthy.
>
> Both machine will have OS 10.4.8. Can anyone point me to a place  
> where I can find migration advice for the best way to do this.  
> Since I'm moving from a G5 machine to an Intel machine, it doesn't  
> seem like using one of the HD cloners would be a good way to go.  
> The Apple support pages haven't been very useful for this.
>
> Short of moving selected apps, reinstalling others, all by hand  
> which appears to me to be a multi-hour job,  Is there an easier way  
> to go about it?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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