[iBook] NT: Moving from one Mac to another

[Scott Warren]

The obvious "username" home folder that has:
- "username\music" holding your iTunes
- "username\pictures" for your iPhoto

  and the not so obvious username\library folder that contains:
--"applications support" containing your address book
--"mail" folder that holds your Apple Mail (if you use that)...

Typically, I setup my (a user's) new computer with the same user  
name, enable root just incase something goes bad, then copy over the  
entire home folder from the target disk, reboot and log in as me (the  
user) again to see the newly copied stuff, then disable root if it  
scares the user...


On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Charles Pearce wrote:

> Believe me when I say I'm not bragging (OK, maybe I am just a  
> little), but I just got a new desktop computer at work (G5, dual 2  
> GHz) and I'm strategizing how to get MY stuff off of my old cpu and  
> onto the new one. I can do the firewire target trick easily, but I  
> need to know what files (beside the obvious ones residing in my  
> Documents folder) need to be ported over to the new box. I want to  
> be able to keep my iCal settings, email, iTunes, iPhoto and so on.  
> I know this probably isn't the right list to ask this, but I also  
> know that there are some smart people on this list who have been  
> there and done that. Thanks.
>
> Charles Pearce (no relation to Brian, that we know of)
> charlesp at ksu.edu
>
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