Migrating from G5 mac to Mac Book Pro: How to use the Migration Assistant?
Unfortunately, my G5 Mac died with a logic board defect. Fortunately, all the data are preserved as the harddisk is fully working (and ready to migrate)
Now to come to my question: I want to migrate the data from my G5 harddisk to my MacBook Pro using the migration assistant. My major interest is to preserve my preference settings as well as the application support folder within the library folder. Will I run into trouble as some of the applications won´t run properly on Intel Macs or will the migration assistant automatically sort those out. If not, it seems like a lot of manual work I´ll have to do.
How have others done the port from G4/G5 to Intel Macs (additionally, it will be from Tiger to leopard to make things even more complicated)?
Thanks a lot for your help
Wolfgang
Thanks very much for your help
Best regards
Wolfgang
Message was edited by: Wolfgang Fogel
Hi Wolfgang,
Using MA from a PPC to an Intel Mac can give you some trouble down the road. Usually, the problems caused by this are difficult to track down, so you are better off moving selected files manually.
Kappy has written a helpful guide for the PPC to Intel transition, which you can read in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6630396�
Hope this helps...
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