Moving files in an iMac over to a new SSD

Hi all, I have a mid-2010 27" iMac, which I've just installed a new 256 Gb SSD (blazingly fast!!!) which I want to use as my primary hard drive. The 1Tb Hard drive which I'm now using will continue to be in the machine, but will serve as the document storage drive. I am using Lion and have everything backed up via Time Machine. The SSD has a clean install of Lion.
What I want to know is how can I move all of my applications over to the SSD while still keeping the documents on the 1Tb Hard Drive. Should I use my Time Machine with the Migration Assistant to do this? If I do, how do I then delete all applications off the 1Tb Hard Drive while keeping my documents? Although I have everything backed up, I'm worried that as has happened before when migrating over to a new computer, the Time Machine backup drive will not let me access previous backups once I migrate everything.
Thanks in advance for the help!

You should have thought about that before installing the SSD. Unfortunately when you have a configuration with more than one primary job, your backing up task becomes utterly more complicated. Now you need a mirror drive for both drives, and/or backups more than twice the capacity. Time to pair down the files you don't need frequently to some DVDs, or another drive*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
And I assume you are aware SSDs can't fully be erased?

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So now that's two of us. Hopefully, someone has an answer.

I just put a solid state hard drive in my mac book pro and used super duper to copy the hard drive and move the data over to thew new ssd, but most of my music isn't in iTunes when I turned it on? How do I get my music to show up in my new drive?

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Many thanks lllaass,
The Touch Copy third party software for PC's is the way to go it seems and although the demo is free, if you have over 100 songs then it costs £15 to buy the software which seems not a lot to pay for peace of mind. and restoring your iTunes library back to how it was.
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Moving files from old iMac to new iMac

I am about to buy a new iMac and wish to move all of the data from my old iMac to the new machine. I have backed up data with both Carbon Copy Cloner and with Time Machine. Which of these should I use to move my old data over to the new computer?

Last week I had to do this very thing. Both Macs ran 10.6.2, the old SL Retail; the new had a new 'SL Build.' (10C2234) (Only bought Retail a short while ago and now it cant be used on the 27" .. Duh!)
In the past I have had problems using MA because I did not migrate the User from the old Mac I created a new user before doing so.
In this case I booted the old Mac in Target Mode (on boot hold "T" key down until FW floater seen), connected it to the 27" via FW 800 and booted 27".
I checked migrate the lot. (There are many upgrades to previous basic SW so I didn't want to go through all these upgrades.)
1H49m shortened to 45m or so and all done.
I opened Eudora only to be told Rosetta wasn't installed! No invitation to 'Get IT?' I installed Rosetta from the Retail DVD.
I rebooted and got kernel panics.
I booted from SL (Cloned previously to a FW drive Partition on TM) and got KP's again.
I booted the 27" in Safe Mode (Hold Shift down on boot until spinning gear runs) and set about trashing all 3rd Party stuff in HD>Library>StartupItems Folder.
Stil got KP's when booting normally.
I ran DiskWarrior 4.2 on the 27" from the FW Partition after booting this Vol in Safe Mode, and DW got confused requesting to CD boot ... you cannot boot 2009 (Late) Macs from the 4.2 CD/DVD.
'Phoned Apple and found there was ANOTHER StartupItems Folder ... System>Library>StartupItems.
This had 3 Folders that were put there by Parallels 5 running on my old Mac. Copied (dragged) to DT, deleted from StartupItems, rebooted and no KP. (Thanks Apple Help!)
Trashed the copied Folders as they were of no use.
So far there have been no major problems; Camino quit 4 times, now stable? Snitch needed registering again.
Runs much cooler than the C2D iMac.
HTH

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What do I need to do to do this successfully? Please explain in the simplest of terms.
Here's the steps as far as I understand. Please correct where necessary.
1. Buy an external HD like an LaCie for example.
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I've read I need to be able to "boot from the External Hard Drive" after I copy my files there using Super Duper. What do they mean by booting from the hard drive?
Do I need to "format" my new LaCie Hard Drive?
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3. Buy or Download "Super Duper" software to copy all of the contents of my Hard Drive to the LaCie external Hard Drive. Does anyone know if the demo will do this or do I need the advanced features?

Thanks Japamac, Wel this is a very lengthy reply so forgive me but I feel like I am getting close to understanding this so please bear with me. Thanks! Well I see I have 2 options that both sound viable. I ran disc utility and under S.M.A.R.T. it said: Failure. The only application I can't open is Safari and the drive is still turning properly and semi-reliable though, so I may be alright to clone still. There is stil the issue of errors though. If there are errors I agree with you I don't want to copy themm over to a new drive but can I not run disc utility after I copy verything over to the new drive?
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So if i use Migrate Assistant do I need to copy over my system preferences too? I think if I copy my applications they will create new preferences when launched won't they. Also would all of my "Mail" information be copied over using "Migrate Assistant"
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1) Install the external HD and format it using "Disc Utility"
2) Run "Super Duper" and clone my hard Drive to the external Drive.
3) Disconnect the external Hard Drive
4) Disconnect the computer and install the new hard drive
5) Reconnect the external Hard Drive and Run "Super Duper" and transfer the information back to the new hard drive.
6) Run Disc Utility and fix any errors.
7) "Erase" the contents from the external Hard Drive
8) Done!
Method #2 (Using Migrate Assistant)
1) Use the mac G4 discs and select the "External Hard Drive" and Install the OS from the install disc directly to the "External Hard Drive".
2) Then use my Panther discs and select the "External Hard Drive" and install Panther to the "External Hard Drive".
3) Go into "Preferences" and select "External Hard Drive" as my "Startup Disc" so it will "boot" to the "External Hard Drive".
4) Use "Migrate Assistant" to migrate or transfer only software applications (Photoshop. Mail, Address Book etc.) from the "old" hard drive to the "External Hard Drive".
5) Disconnect the external Hard Drive
6) Disconnect the computer and install the new hard drive
7) Reconnect the external Hard Drive and Run "Super Duper" and transfer the information back to the new hard drive.
8) no need to run Disc utility as it's like a clean install.
9) "Erase" the contents from the external Hard Drive
10) Done!
Please tell me if I have missed a step or if a step is incorrect in the above 2 methods.
Q) I can't find my G4 install discs, can I use my Panther install discs instead?
Q) Does "Migrate Assistant" come with Panther or does it only come with the mac install discs?
Q) Will "Migrate Assistant" copy over my "Mail" application and it's setting or do I need to totally reinstall that?
Q) How long does "Migrate Assistant" take to transfer vs.. Super Duper?

Moving OS from old hard drive to a new SSD

Hi
I have an early 2009 macpro running OS X 10.7.5 with 6GB RAM and two original hard drives (640GB and 1TB). As the system is starting to run a little slow I have just ordered an upgrade for the RAM and have also ordered a new SSD hard drive.
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Whilst it is easy for me to transfer files over from one drive to another, how do I do this with all of the operating system and applications.
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CCC allows you to de-select user media sub-folders of your home user account.
SSD - 50% full is a good ballpark, even more free space if it will be used for any kind of cached scratch (adobe)
all your media and data files and libraries should not be on the boot drive even now
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Never used CCC or SD? might want to practice and try it out first just to get the feel - test and do a trial run, cloning should be a req'd backup strategy.
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jjb3272,
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Greetings,
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iTunes: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
iPhoto: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229
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I keep getting "error occurred while attempting to import file *******. The disc your are attempting to use is full." I have an external hard drive that I moved files over to, but apparently they're also still on my hard drive? HELP!

So you have backed up the content of the computer's hard drive, too?
That usually is a great idea since it is possible to lose use of the system
if parts of it have accidentally been removed or get over-written, or the
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after you made copies on an external hard drive or other device, then
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system automatically can use as much as is available, but it is better
to be sure there is plenty of resources available to include chip RAM
as well as unused or free hard drive capacity for use as VM.
If for some reason your files in Trash won't go away when you empty
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files in the content in the Trash, or the Mac may not start up later on.
You may have to boot the computer from the install-restore OS X DVD
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