[iBook] NT: Moving from one Mac to another

[Richard McKay]

On 29/6/05 14:57, "Scott Warren" <sw at shelton.org> wrote:

>   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)...

I tend to move the entire ~/Library folder over to the new computer and
place it inside a new folder on the desktop for a few weeks to ensure that I
didn't miss something. For example the Keychain file that holds all the
posswords one needs or the mbox files from Mail.app.

You may wish to also include certain folders from the 'Your HD name'/Library
folder as well (for example from the /Fonts folder any fonts that you have
acquired...legally of course).

But really the best thing to do would be to make a complete backup of the
old systems drive and then *actually* check to see that it works and
everything is there before you migrate so that if you do indeed notice
something irreplaceable is missing you can still recover it!

HTH,

Richard
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