Leopard & Parallels - migration

I am considering migrating from Parallels to Leopard Bootcamp. I do not want to lose any of the files I have created and the email from the XP-Pro/SP2 instance I have running on Parallels build 5140. Before I upgrade to Leopard I want to make sure where I am heading with this decision. I could upgrade the Parallels to the new build 55xx that goes with leopard but then how do I capture and move the files and email in tact over to Boot camp and also the XP OS as well? Looking for ideas and guidance here.
Michael

You should probably post your question in the Parallels and/or Boot Camp forums rather than a forum dealing with the usage of OS X.
http://forums.parallels.com
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

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Hi:
I'm finally planning to get Leopard soon, like as soon as I get back from vacation next week. It will be installed on my macbook.
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http://www.virtualbox.org/
A free open source alternative.
http://forums.parallels.com/search.php?s=8fe4a6522da19c76b8ffa55107c58c02&do=get daily
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion
WinClone - http://www.twocanoes.com for cloning Windows
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Will windows os under parallels migrate to new mac using migration assistant

I have been using parallels 7 with windows 7 on a 2008 macbook pro. I have gotten a new 2012 macbook pro and plan to use migration assistant. Will windows install without my having to call Microsoft? I also have Office 2010 and wonder if I need to call Microsoft to allow me to use it on the new MacBook?
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Migration Assistant only migrates - it does not delete anything from the 'other' machine.
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First, you do not need to create a Windows partition on your new computer. You will use Boot Camp Assistant to do that - it can dynamically resize your existing Mac OS X partition without destroying it. (I initially used Disk Utility to create a Windows partition but it wasn't recognised properly by Parallels and also the Mac wouldn't boot from it).
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Hope this helps!

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How well does Parallels migrate into a new Mac?

Just bought an iMac and I'm planning on migrating everything currently in my Macbook, including the whole Parallels set-up, into the iMac. Just curious, does anyone here have experience with a similar scenario? Do the Windows / Parallels drive, setup etc. all migrate painlessly, or is there additional configuration to be done? Thanks in advance.

Yes, you must do a limited amount of configuration. Since Parallels is not an Apple product, I suggest you post further questions regarding Parallels on the Parallels forums:
http://forums.parallels.com

Keyboard Function Keys - Leopard / Parallels / Boot Camp

Hi. I'm two weeks into my first Mac experience, and am delighted with the difference Leopard makes to my workflow! Apologies if my
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System Preferences : toggled use Fn key flag. With the function key held down, I get the enhanced Expose functions to work without problem. Interestingly, Keyboard & Mouse shows no keyboard backlight settings, which I'm certain was there a few days ago. However, the toolbar app I downloaded to manually operate the keyboard backlight works well, so the backlight is both there and capable of being triggered.
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This issue is now beginning to aggrieve me, and I'm hoping that someone will be kind enough to help me sort it out. I have Time Machine backups, but I see that a lack of free space on my backup drive has resulted in the deletion of backups from the time I know everything was working, and in any case I've spent a lot of time installing and configuring software over the last few days and would really prefer not to have to start all over again.
TIA,
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Hungerford, UK

I spoke to Apple Care, who suggested I try everything I'd already tried, which was reassuring. Their next suggestion was an Erase & Reinstall, but since I had full Time Machine backups in hand, I thought I'd have nothing to lose by performing an Archive & Reinstall, which worked! Issue resolved, and Function keys now working perfectly in Windows and Leopard.
Darren

Should I wiat for Snow Leopard to migrate to new disk?

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Hi, again.
Nobody who's allowed to talk about it knows as of today exactly what's involved in the installation, but all indications are it's not a big deal.
Purely from past experience, however, I always recommend doing major things one step at a time. If you do one right after the other, you multiply the (small) chances of error, and may have no clue about which step caused any problems.
I'd say do the migration first. Start Time Machine (or other) backups immediately. Then use the Mac for a while to be sure everything's kosher.
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Snow Leopard, Parallels and the Day After!

Yesterday I installed Parallels 6 and spent several happy hours enjoying the benefits of that advanced and visually stunning operating system . . . . . Windows 7.
Everything seemed to work perfectly until I switched my iMac on this morning, when I immediately noticed 2 things.
1. My startup chime nearly deafened me! For the past couple of years I have had an app called "Startup Sound" residing in my System Preferences, whose job is to reduce the sound to a very low and pleasing level.
On checking in SP I found that the volume settings had not altered . . . . . . I thought they may have returned to the normal maximum setting.
Anyone know whether Parallels knocks out "Startup Sound"?
2. The actual startup process took twice as long as normal. This could be coincidence as occasionally this does happen. I suppose only time will tell, but it occurred to me that having 2 operating systems residing on one HD might account for the increased startup time.

Thanks for the reply Ross.
I decided not to wait until tomorrow, so I shut down and relaunched my iMac a couple of times.
The startup sound was once again suitably low and the startup time was much quicker, though still a little longer than the fastest I get of under a minute (I have a lot of "Login Items").
So it looks as though it was a one-off coincidence.

How to migrate user's data from Panther G3 to MacBook Snow Leopard?

Migration Assistant isn't helping at the moment. Over the network, it just spins saying "looking for other computers" even though I've seen and acted on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3253 -- although that doesn't relate to Panther so it isn't right for that. Anyway, so I forget doing it over the network.
I copy two users' entire directories on the Panther G3 machine to an external hard drive. I plug that into the MacBook, open Migration Assistant and choose from a disk. Now it just spins indefinitely where it's supposed to allow me to select the disk -- it can't even show the disk (the disk has mounted fine).
I'm now thinking Migration Assistant is completely useless -- better not touched?
So I haven't got a clue how to get two users from a G3 machine to the new MacBook. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Interestingly, it looks like a mounted disk image of a full system is recognized by Snow Leopard's Migration Assistant. Although the disk image is not bootable, it presents as a separate volume "with OS X installed", and apparently this is enough.
One of my external drives contains a sparsebundle disk image of my oid G5 Leopard Mac that I created with either CCC or SuperDuper just before that computer died. I just tried mounting it by double-clicking it, and then running Snow Leopard's Migration Assistant, choosing the option to migrate "From a Time Machine backup or other disk." The mounted volume was recognized as a "disk", and all its contents were accessible as items to migrate. I didn't actually run it.
CCC makes it easy, though, to protect the other stuff as you suggested and then clone to the whole partition rather than to a disk image.

I just bought a mac and I used the migration assistant so I could have all my files, but I got my account from Snow Leopard and now I don't have Lion anymore?

If anyone knows what my next step is, please help! Thanks

Are you absolutely sure that your new Mac had Lion installed? If so, are you now absolutely sure you are running Snow Leopard? What does About This Mac under the Apple icon in the menu say about what system you are running.
Snow Leopard will not install on top of Lion. You have to erase the HD to downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard. Migration Assistant doesn't have the capability of doing this.

Migrating data from 10.3.9 to Leopard

I want to buy a new imac with Leopard but want to be sure that I can migrate data (iTunes, folders, software, etc) over from the old imac 1Ghz PowerPC G4 to the new.
I've read that this is no problem from Tiger to Leopard using Migration Assistant but that it's more of an issue with Panther, especially as I'm moving to Intel.
Can anyone outline their experiences, the difficulties (if any) and how these were overcome?
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Thank you, Baltwo, for referencing my migration FAQ. Much appreciated. That version is a tad out of date. Here's a more recent version (which may also need some revision.)
A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
If you are migrating a PowerPC system (G3, G4, or G5) to an Intel-Mac be careful what you migrate. Keep in mind that some items that may get transferred will not work on Intel machines and may end up causing your computer's operating system to malfunction.
Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3 or G4 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
Screensavers written for the PowerPC
System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
See also What Can Be Translated by Rosetta.
In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
If you migrate a user folder that contains any of these items, you may find that your Intel-Mac is malfunctioning. It would be wise to take care when migrating your systems from a PowerPC platform to an Intel-Mac platform to assure that you do not migrate these incompatible items.
If you have problems with applications not working, then completely uninstall said application and reinstall it from scratch. Take great care with Java applications and Java-based Peer-to-Peer applications. Many Java apps will not work on Intel-Macs as they are currently compiled. As of this time Limewire, Cabos, and Acquisition are available as universal binaries. Do not install browser plug-ins such as Flash or Shockwave from downloaded installers unless they are universal binaries. The version of OS X installed on your Intel-Mac comes with special compatible versions of Flash and Shockwave plug-ins for use with your browser.
The same problem will exist for any hardware drivers such as mouse software unless the drivers have been compiled as universal binaries. For third-party mice the current choices are USB Overdrive or SteerMouse. Contact the developer or manufacturer of your third-party mouse software to find out when a universal binary version will be available.
Also be careful with some backup utilities and third-party disk repair utilities. Disk Warrior 4.1, TechTool Pro 4.6.1, SuperDuper 2.5, and Drive Genius 2.0.2 work properly on Intel-Macs with Leopard. The same caution may apply to the many "maintenance" utilities that have not yet been converted to universal binaries. Leopard Cache Cleaner, Onyx, TinkerTool System, and Cocktail are now compatible with Leopard.
Before migrating or installing software on your Intel-Mac check MacFixit's Rosetta Compatibility Index.
Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
Intel In Macs
Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
Transferring data with Setup Assistant - Migration Assistant FAQ
Because Migration Assistant isn't the ideal way to migrate from PowerPC to Intel Macs, using Target Disk Mode or copying the critical contents to CD and DVD or an external hard drive will work better when moving from PowerPC to Intel Macs.
Basically the instructions you should follow are:
1. Backup your data first. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there's some other problem.
2. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
3. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
4. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
4. Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (* This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ copy any preferences needed for third-party applications
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.

Migration Assistant (Tiger -- Leopard)

I just received my new MacBook yesterday...during installation, I was trying to use the Migration Assistant to take data from my older Mac (PowerBook G4 w/ Tiger) using the Firewire mode. After connecting the Macs using the Firewire cable, and then restarting the older Mac in Transfer mode (holding down 'T')...the older Mac has the Firewire display on the screen, but the new MacBook's Migration Assistant says that it cannot find any disks with Mac OS X loaded. I've also tried connecting through the AirPort with the same results. In addition, I tried running Migration Assistant outside of the installation process to see if there was any difference, but no luck.
Is there a known issue with Migration Assistant from Tiger to Leopard? Is there some reason that Leopard's Migration Assistant isn't finding my disks on the older PowerBook G4 (PowerPC)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Brad
Message was edited by: shoptb

My father has a new Imac running 10.5. We want to migrate from an old G4 running 10.4. The old machine is not recognized in the attempted firewire transfer in migration assistant (MA). No help is offered in the MA. I then tried migration via ethernet. The OS10.5MA describes settings choices in the old machine's MA that do not exist ("migrate to" choice does not exist in 10.4 MA) - a bug. APPLE ON-LINE SUPPORT WAS STUMPED and they insisted we take BOTH machines into an apple store - a huge burden.
APPLE SUPPORT - LOOK THIS IS AN OBVIOUS BUG, MULTIPLE POSTS, CAN YOU PLEASE PROVIDE ANSWER?
An IT professional recalled a similar case and thought there might be network settings issues. Another possibility is unrelated software interference - e.g. firewalls, backup software, anti-virus. Perhaps a hint about booting into a single user mode might help?
I note that cables and firewire read/write to extrenal drive were all tested separately and worked fine.
-B

HT5225 I have Mac OSX snow leopard , which I think is OSX10.6.8. I did as I was told and migrated to icloud having advised that not all devices were up to the Lion. I now find that the mobile phone receives the emails and so does the ipad, but not my desk

I have Mac OSX snow leopard , which I think is OSX10.6.8. I did as I was told and migrated to icloud having advised that not all devices were up to the Lion. I now find that the mobile phone receives the emails and so does the ipad, but not my desktoptop. I have received an email from apple saying I would be able to receive the emails. Why cant I? What do I have to do ? Surely it is not necessary to buy another upgrade???

10.7.2 is required for full iCloud facilities, but you can still use your email. In theory you should be able to access your email in Mail at the same server settings, but this hasn't worked for everyone: you can set Mail up manually to access your iCloud email:
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard
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