How best to migrate data to retina macbook

until the thunderbolt firewire adapter is available, what is the best method to migrate data to a new retina macbook?

I have to agree with Kappy. I've used Carbon Copy Cloner for every Mac migration I've done for the past several years. It's as close to a flawless piece of software as you'll ever find. Even though I use (and am a fan of) Time Machine using the Time Capsule functionality of a QNAP RAID NAS via WiFi, I also use CCC to make frequent clones of my two drive partitions. I typically use two partitions (3 now with Apple's recovery partition) – an OS boot partition and a data partition. For security and speed-of-recovery, the home directory for my primary user account lives on the data partition. While Time Machine does it's delta-based sparse bundle backup, I routinely do exact clones of each drive partition onto a like-partitioned external Go-flex Firewire drive. When my MacBook Pro was stolen last year, I restored from the CCC backup which was about three weeks old and then did a Time Machine restore on top of it. Since I was out of town when the computer was stolen, the Time Machine backup was current as of three days earlier (when I was home and TM ran automatically over Wifi). Considering they stole a new 17" MBP with a 500GB SSD, losing only three days of data was a godsend.
I've ordered a MBP Retina. When it arrives, I'll migrate to it the same way, using CCC. The cool thing about the Seagate GoFlex system, by the way, is that I can switch a drive from Firewire 800 to USB 3 by swapping a $19 adapter.

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/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder) /Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder) /Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder) /Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder) /Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder) /Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
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Credit goes to Macjack for this information.
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Edited by: 870587 on Jul 6, 2011 2:57 AM

Hi,
Thanks for you replying. But the 'copy to oracle' function still can't be work well. I will give some info about the table. I also search 'SPSSCMOR_CONTROLTABLE' in the target schema, and only find one object. So why say 'name is already used by an existing object'? Could you please give me some advice? Thanks!
What is the 'Build' version of your SQL*Developer ?
[Answer]:
3.0.04
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[Answer]:
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- what does describe show for the SPSSCMOR_CONTROLTABLE in Oracle ?
[Answer]:
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Edited by: 870587 on Jul 18, 2011 1:42 AM

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Thank you for your reply.
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Regards
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Oracle Migration Workbench Team wrote:
: Michael,
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: A67792-01
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as
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: Oracle Migration Workbench Team
: Michael (guest) wrote:
: : We have a web site based on Microsoft SQL Server 6.5.Now we
: plan
: : to migrate the database to Oracle 8.
: : We have redesigned the tables structure and created tables
: under
: : Oracle 8, so we only need to migrate data from SQL Server.
: : We've exported data from SQL Server to text files.
: : How can we import data from files and restore to Oracle
tables.
: : Is there a solution which let us to import data for
particular
: : table columns,not all columns?
: : We'll be appreciated if somene can give suggestions.
: : Regards
: : Michael
: Oracle Technology Network
: http://technet.oracle.com
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