Migrating from 10.6.4 MacBook to a 10.4.11 iMac, possible over network?

I've had an iMac for a few years but after getting a macbook this past xmas I rarely use it. I decided to get my iMac up to speed with my macbook using migration assistant. I used it to setup my macbook when i got it with no issues. So after running migration assistant to transfer back to my iMac it duplicated users. So I had 2 users with my name, 2 with my wife's etc. So I thought I'd be smart and I booted from the disc that came with my iMac (osx 10.4), deleted everything, ran all the software updates and tried using migration assistant again. My issue is this, Migration assistant on the iMac, under the from another mac option will only recognize a firewire cable. My macbook (came with osx 10.6) doesn't have a firewire port. Am I missing something? Is there a way for me to do this with a cat5/6 cable? I've tried having them on the same network and using file sharing uploaded the entire macbook HDD onto the iMac, but it wont let me boot from it. I also am unable to copy the macbooks HDD onto the macbook itself. What do I ned to do to get htis going, i've scoured all the forums I can find and have found no answers that work for me. I'm not a computer whiz and I've tried everything I know how to do.

Though I'm a little confused too, Migration Assistant is probably designed to use Firewire for a good reason, though creative network solutions might be possible. (I stopped using simple ethernet cable when Apple Talk stopped being supported.)
People are know by your computers as simple integers. They used to start with 501. So 501 on machine 1 could be 'Fred', 501 on machine 2 could be 'Jim'. I'm guessing it just converted, say, the incoming 501 account to 502. Don't know if that helps.
Firewire isn't needed for DVD transfers, is it? I've never tried this, but I should anticipate that it would stop and ask you to insert a new disc.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21992/burn
Copies MacBook.dmg to DVDs just by creating the image & dropping it on the 'copy' window. I take it you've tried rebuilding the iMac with 10.4.11, copying MacBook.dmg to the iMac's hard drive, and telling MigrationAssistant that that folder is a DVD folder? (Devices are all just folders to Unix.)
I've used this application only once, to move Applications from 10.4 to 10.3, and it worked perfectly. I archive or backup all other data, so I just copied it or restored it to the older machine.

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well no reply from the community. sniff- do i stink!? - probably a little bit. If i have lost all that data then I'm gonna really really pong.
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Migrate from G4 to new Macbook.. Not your typical question

Good morning.
My wife was using an iBook G4 for some time. Our 13 month old grandson one day made a quick move and pulled on the display, pulling it towards him. The machine now only shows a grey/white screen when booting. It sounds like it is starting (chime, you can hear the drives, etc.) but nothing on the display. I haven't tried connecting it to an external display as I haven't been able to find the mini connector.
In any event, I think it's time to get my wife a new MacBook. My question is, if she decides she wants to migrate from the old iBook and not start from scratch, is that possible without being able to "see" the activity on the old iBook? If so, what would I need to do?
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wyzard wrote:
Good morning.
My wife was using an iBook G4 for some time. Our 13 month old grandson one day made a quick move and pulled on the display, pulling it towards him. The machine now only shows a grey/white screen when booting. It sounds like it is starting (chime, you can hear the drives, etc.) but nothing on the display. I haven't tried connecting it to an external display as I haven't been able to find the mini connector.
In any event, I think it's time to get my wife a new MacBook. My question is, if she decides she wants to migrate from the old iBook and not start from scratch, is that possible without being able to "see" the activity on the old iBook? If so, what would I need to do?
Thanks.
I would actually recommend attaching an external monitor to your iBook and just transfer the data over. Unfortunately you might have to spend extra if you don't have the adapter. You can then use any ethernet cable, attach one end on the Mac and another end to your new one and then enable the transfer.
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I'm about the begin the process of migrating from one computer to the other. I have cleaned/tidied up my powerbook, tossing old files and making sure all is in order.
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Sign me, Thrilled with a new MBP with Leopard!

If you could copy you mail and ical data over and not use the migration software. You would have possibly a more stable machine.
If you was going intel to intel then migration would be OK, but you going PPC to intel and you dont want it moving over any odd PPC app. You really want it to run all intel versions.
You can copy the folder and pref files that are on your old Mac over to the same locations on the new one and it will all work OK, keychains you would need to just make a not of the passwords and add them again.
We tend to only use the migration as a last resort to ensure the best possible migration we copy only required data and files manually and re install any third party apps as most put to many files all over the place that makes copying them tricky. Then try and make sure you have all intel version of any of your old third party apps to stop ressetta kicking in and eating up your free RAM.
If you can do this then your not moving any redundant files across, a clean system is a better system.

Using MA to migrate from a G5 running 10.4.11 to a new iMac running 10.6.2

OK, So I'm an IT professional but I'm working on my husband's machine which introduces a whole new set of risks - like staying married
He has an old G5 running Tiger and I just got him the new i5 for Christmas. I'm getting ready to migrate everything over, but I'm second guessing myself. Any affirmation or suggestions would go a long way before I proceed. I plan on doing a complete back up as a precautionary measure, but should I upgrade him to the latest version of 10.5 first? Also, should i do a complete migration, or just move over his profile? We have most of the media for his apps with the exception of a just a few I can't locate. I would really prefer to not have to re-install all his software, as he's a media hog. Anyone willing to share best practice on this? Thanks

most people Migrate using Migration Assistant without many problems. I would not bother trying to install Leopard on his machine first. that just might introduce further complications. however, problems when migrating from PPC to intel and jumping over on OS version are certainly possible.
see this link for details on that
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
I do not necessarily advocate going straight for manual migration as this link suggests. you can try MA first. if it leads to problem you can always do a wipe and install and use manual migration.
before migrating make sure that all the apps are SL compatible.
rebuild all your mailboxes in Mail if you are using it.
also, if migrating applications leads to problems you can try migrating user accounts and data only but not applications. of course that will mean reinstalling all the apps from scratch.

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Open the Users folder on the internal drive, drag all of the other home folders to the desktop, and then move the files inside to the desired locations.
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Hi guys, sorry to bug in. I searched on the different discussions available and found yours to be closest to my query.
I hope you don't me popping a few questions regarding Migration Assistant.
I have had a MacBook Air for about 2 years now, and recently bought a MacBook Pro.
I performed a Migration of the content in MBA to MBP and it was successful as far as content transfer is concerned.
Now I have the database from the MBA in the new MBP, but none of the user setting or Applications were "installed". I tried to open "Applications", "Movies" folders, but I was not allowed to open them.
Is it possible to migrate the content and use as if it was in MBA? Or do I have to download and reinstall the various programs/applications I had in MBA again? (eg Handbrake, VM Fusion, etc)?
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Migrating from iBook G4 to MacBook Pro -helpful experiences?

Hi everyone
I'm switching to a MacBook Pro and would welcome the voice of experience from people who have made a similar switch from an iBook. This morning I went into my local Apple Store to ask advice and the guy I spoke to was really uncertain and suggested that I pay £79 (or whatver it is) to joing One to One and let the Apple store do it. However, I'm sure that there must be an easier (and cheaper) was to accomplish what I need - which is to basically transfer files, music, photos, email, accounts, and settings to the MBP.
I would love to hear from anyone who has achieved this with as much detail as you can spare about how you did this.
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I did it three years ago, switching from a G4 to an Intel-based MBP. I have a couple of suggestions:
1. Cloning your hard drive won't work as such, because the G4's OS won't boot on the Intel machine. What some have done, though, is to clone and then re-install OS 10.5 on the new machine. While that may work, it will most likely also result in your having some applications on the machine that won't work and may cause mischief.
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3. The most conservative approach (and in some ways the easiest) is to use an external drive or other media to copy your home directory from the old system to the new one, and then reinstall applications from original media or from the web.
4. Don't forget to update your OS at some point -- new hardware doesn't always come with the latest SW changes.
Good luck.

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Obviously I did something wrong when I migrated. Any suggestions as to whether to delete one of the user options on startup and what, if anything, to do to the dmg file would be appreciated.
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An ethernet cable should go faster. That's how I did it yesterday. However, even so the Migration Assistant said it would take 5 hours. So I drilled down into the options and de-selected my music and my photos and just moved apps and account settings. After about 90 minutes I was up and running. At that point I enabled File Sharing on my old computer, then logged into it using Finder on the new one. I manually copied over my music and photos into the appropriate directories while I continued to work. Despite what Migration Assistant said, it only took about 90 more minutes to do that while I was actually writing a document in MS Word on the new one.

Help with migrating from PPC G5 to MacBook Pro 2012

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BORING DETAILS: I'm jumping from a dual G5 Dual Power Mac (PPC, running Leopard 10.5.8) over to a 2012 MacBook Pro, (a 15" fast i7 quad non-retina, with 1 GB GPU and 16 GB RAM, running latest Lion). I have a lot of data and apps, including "pro apps" like Final Cut and lots of photo- and video-production software.
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Joshua Coventry and sig and others:
Thanks!
If you combine those last two pieces of advice and mix in the best of the earlier suggestions, that's pretty much what I wound up doing:
I used Setup Assistant to create a "NewGuest" account on the MacBook Pro, with minimal information submitted to Apple (basically, only my correct name and address, etc.). Then I immediately used the Migration Assistant to bring over ONLY 1) my main User admin account and its Home folder and 2) the computer settings from the G5 Power Mac.
Finally, I changed the "NewGuest" to a regular account (non-admin), rebooted the MPB, and deleted NewGuest and its home folder. Then began the long job of feeding appropriate software into my new MBP: installing or reinstalling the latest Intel versions of all of my key productivity apps and utilities.
So far, I'm getting very good results. No MBP indigestion, but it's daunting to look at a new Dock that's now almost totally populated by question marks (the G5's Dock had almost fifty apps)! There's one major benefit: a chance to reconsider whether I really needed all of that stuff to begin with, and if I need it now!
The need-it-now vital stuff is being pulled over via Firewire, and I've just bought an external USB 3 enclosure for the G5's main boot drive, and it will now be available as a handy source for various files, docs, settings as I need them, and for any "second thoughts" that I might have about what really belongs on the MacBook Pro's boot disk. All is well, and it looks like it will STAY well (but stay tuned!).
Thanks, y'all! Hope this helps someone else facing a similar challenge.

Tips for manual migration from iBook G4 to MacBook

I have tried to use the migration wizard 4 times and it always gets stuck from my iBook G4 to my new MacBook.. I have reformatted my MacBook and will do the migration via and external Hard Drive manually. The documents are easy. Photos and Itunes is easy. Now I need help with manually migrating the following...
1. Safari and Firefox bookmarks, saved passwords, etc.
2. Mail, folders, history and accounts.
3. Other programs, i.e. Office, Photoshop, etc
Am I missing anything. I am sure I am overlooking some stuff that will make my move to the new computer much better. Can someone please post a "how to" bullet point list for the Mac challenged. Thanks!

You'll get more info posting here
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1219
as this a forum for Servers.
But just so you know, I wouldn't recommend using migration assistant to move more than documents from a G4 to an Intel Mac.

Can I migrate from Mac Pro to MacBook?

I´m on older Mac Pro but with Mavericks and the disk set up is quite fresh.
I want to migrate the system and all app to a MacBook Pro (2013) and just ceep on working. Is it just to go ahead and do it or should I think of somethings? Is the Mavericks install the same for a workstation from 2007 as for a laptop from 2013?
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Migrating from Powerbook G4 to MacBook (late 2008)

Just got a new MacBook. I'm wondering whether I should use Migration Assistant or just copy my old files manually to the new MacBook.
My Powerbook has been through many OS upgrades that I'm thinking I should start "fresh" and just copy old files. I know that I'll have to reinstall all my third-party applications if I go this route. Which may be a good thing since I can then not install apps that I haven't used in a while.
Questions:
1. Does it really matter whether I do the migration manually or through the Migration Assistant? i.e., do I really need to start "fresh" without all the "junk" (if there really are any) from all the OS upgrades through the years on my old Powerbook?
2. Has anyone done a manual migration? If so, perhaps someone can share what they did -- e.g., how you moved things like email (POP), calendar, address book, etc.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.

Rustymusty wrote:
Just got a new MacBook. I'm wondering whether I should use Migration Assistant or just copy my old files manually to the new MacBook.
My Powerbook has been through many OS upgrades that I'm thinking I should start "fresh" and just copy old files. I know that I'll have to reinstall all my third-party applications if I go this route. Which may be a good thing since I can then not install apps that I haven't used in a while.
Questions:
1. Does it really matter whether I do the migration manually or through the Migration Assistant? i.e., do I really need to start "fresh" without all the "junk" (if there really are any) from all the OS upgrades through the years on my old Powerbook?
2. Has anyone done a manual migration? If so, perhaps someone can share what they did -- e.g., how you moved things like email (POP), calendar, address book, etc.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
I just plugged an ethernet cable from my two notebooks and started the Migration Assistant and it just transferred everything over. Remember to create a temporary user instead of an actual user that has an identical username as on your old system because I have ran into issues.
Only settings and software were migrated. No system software components were moved over for obvious reasons.
deltatux

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