Can I recreate my Timemachine Backups from my old MacBook on a new MacBook Pro?
My MacBook (white, 6.1, late 2009, 2,26 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.9.3) has a major problem with frequent crashes after some minutes. I have a MacBook pro 13" and intend to try to move all contents (pictures, music, mail and everything else of importance) to the MacBokk pro by recreate my TimeMachine Backups (stored on a external HD LaCie) from my old MacBook on the HD of the MacBook Pro. Will this work?
Thanks, Lukas
Not without knowing if the problem is hardware or software related. And software corruption may be copied over in your backup as well. You can piecemeal recover user data and applications, and maybe registration code preference files from your backup. But I would not do a complete migration from the backup without knowing where the crashing is happening.
I would clone the backup before proceeding, just in case there is a problem with the backup drive as well.
And only move over one application at a time and test it on the other machine before moving the next one over.
Backup the other machine to a separate location once you know you have something that works both before the migration, and after you start migrating.
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