Migrating Tiger User Account

I am migrating a user account from an old Intel iMac to a fairly recent MacBook Pro. The iMac is running 10.4.11 and the MBP is running 10.5.2.
When I try to T-Boot the iMac onto the MBP the Firewire logo appears on the iMac screen but is very jerky and staggered. The disk never mounts on the MBP's desktop and Migration Assistant cannot see it.
When I T-Boot the old iMac to another machine running Tiger, it pops right up.
Is this some way of telling me that I cannot migrate Tiger User Accounts to Leopard?
Thanks
Sean

You're making things much more difficult than they have to be. Don't bother trying to use your iPhone to migrate your data. Just backup address book and ical, then import those into the new ones. Copy the iTunes library and have done with it.
Sync to iPhone was never intended to be a 2 way street.
I can understand not wanting to bring old junk with you when it comes to migrating your old user account and all the preference files and the like, but in the time it took you to try to find a way to get things moved via your phone, you could have done it manually.

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Migrating local user accounts/home directories to network user accounts

Hi,
I am planning on moving the user accounts from several Mac OS X client machines to a new Mac OS X Server machine (Quad core Xeon MacPro). I am very familiar with OS X client in a support environment, but do not have extensive experience with Server.
I read over the instructions in this article
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.4/en/c6um3.html
and it appears to be fairly straight forward, although I do have some questions regarding the existing data (home folders) and how to set the clients to log in to the network account.
Previously, in the event that I have needed to move a person's home directory to a new computer or recover from a corrupt OS (and Archive&install was not an option), in OS X client I would:
1) Back up the home directory.
2) Erase/reinstall OS X client.
3) Log in as Root.
4) Go into "Accounts" pref pane and create user with same short name as original/backed-up home directory.
5) Replace the newly created home directory with the backed-up home directory.
6) Go into Terminal and chown/chgrp the home directory to username/staff, respectively.
This would result in a perfectly migrated user account. All settings and files working just as they did on the previous system/install of OS X.
First Question: Could I employee a similar method to retain the content and settings from the local user accounts on the server as I migrate them to network users? Moving the user accounts to the server as described, then running terminal to set proper ownership...
Second Question: What do I do on each client system to tell it to recognize the networked home directory for each user? Do I just change the user's home folder path in Netinfo Manager to the automount location?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,
-David
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A network account is really existing only on the server but if you use "portable homefolders" (Tiger client and server) you could "migrate" the local account to a "server" one by:
Login locally as another user with administrative rights.
Change the name of the old account folder in /Users.
Remove the "old" account locally (woun't remove the "old" folder as you changed the name) only Netinfo data.
Login using the serveraccount login/password thus creating a homefolder on the server.
Logout and back in, enable portable homefolder.
Logout and then in as a local admin and remove the new user folder.
Change the name on the old userfolder to what the new one had.
I'm not a 100% sure Netinfo has the server account UID now (added by logging in and creating the portable account?) but if it does:
(http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-12077.html)
"Finding and changing UIDs across the filesystem is a one-liner command:
sudo find / -user UID -exec chown userName {} \;
(replace UID with the old UID number and userName with the new user name to associate file ownership.)"
(A portable account must have got some "kind" of UID?)
Let the machine "sync" with the server account.
If you want an "on network only" account I don't know what you need to remove locally afterwards.
HTH

Migration Assistant doesn't appear to migrate all user accounts

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There is a duplicate user which didn't get migrated (that's what I want) with a name beginning with "n". But other accounts with names beginning with letters after "n" weren't migrated.
Is there a way of making it migrate the other accounts? I suspect that it stopped when it found the duplicate user and didn't try to go on.
I really only need one of these accounts, who was my standard login account on that box,
I'll try to see if can copy a few items from that user's Documents folder to a new folder I create, <thatuser>'s Docs, and see if I have permissions to use them or not.
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That worked fine. I have one account (the Imight want to pull, that is, the account with the same username as what's on the machine I'm migrating to.
But I'll do that only if I see signicant stuff on that account, nd I'll create a temporary account, yank everything I can get from that user's account, and then bring over "duplicate-main" (that's not its name).

Migration Assistant & User Accounts

When using MA, for transferring a user account from an iMac G4 to a Mac Pro, I was going to transfer with the same Admin User name, bob on iMac and bob on Mac Pro. MA required that I change one of the account names. When migration was complete, I had two Admin accounts on the Mac Pro, of course (Wish I could have foreseen that!).
Now - what to do? Delete the transferred account and start over? Or, MOVE certain folders, apps, files and libraries to the Mac Pro's main Admin account?
If the suggestion is to MOVE stuff, what is the better way (I know that I will be looking at Permission changes)?
Also, will iTunes libraries, iMovie projects, Safari bookmarks be a problem to move manually?
Thanks in advance for any help . . .
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Hi Bob,
You won't be moving as much stuff as you think you will. Basically you'll just be installing apps that need to be on the boot disk because they put needed items in the system folder. There aren't really all that many apps that do that. Apps with code keys, well, you might want to try transferring preferences there, but I have a bunch and I just tracked down the keys again. Apps for me that needed a whole new install were PS4 and AE4, they tightly bond with the system, and can't be dragged from one HD to another. Most everything else, games, what-not, will work just fine dragged. Again though you need to know your codes, if applicable.
The bulk of your files from your old system you can hold on to any way you want to. You could keep them on the old drive or move them where you wish. You could do what I did,.. make a clone of your old system to an external drive and keep it around for awhile as a library of sorts. In the meantime you could wipe out the data on the old drive and have a nice new disk for daily use.
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Maybe your Mac can have two accounts with the same name, though I wouldn't try it. Since it's a new Mac why not just wipe out your disk and reinstall off the Install and Restore disks that come with your Mac? Then just start over again and make an account with a different name.
The problem as I see it with Migration Assistant is even if it goes without a hitch, can one be sure they are not importing things that will degrade the new Macs performance?
I didn't want to go the route I did, installing everything all over again onto a fresh system. But the more I tried to move my G5s "mind" to the Mac Pro, the more mentally disturbed the Mac pro became.
I guess peoples experiences vary, but in the end I felt good about the fact that I had a brand new computer without any of the miasma of my previous systems. And really, it's one of those things that are worse thinking about than actually doing. It's actually kind of fun and interesting to see how much gunk you thought you needed, but in fact, never needed at all.

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I had two user accounts on the Mac before handing it to the lab.
One of them I never actually used -I'll call it the secondary.
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I'm really really stressed and worried.
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clicking on the folders - I get the following notice - 'the folder xxx can't be opened because you don't have permission to see the contents''
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would appreciate any kind of help,
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thanks,
the thing is the Mac was behaving strangely - that's why I sent it to the lab in the first place.
This Mac is just over a year old but it's content was initially migrated from the older mac.
And it (the new Mac) wasn't working properly from the get go..
It took ages for it to start up and wouldn't start up if any external disk was attached (via USB).
I had to start it up and only then connect external disks.
In the lab - They couldn't find and HW issues.
So they formatted and reinstalled the OS - I think that's all they've sone in the lab
The idea was to start afresh and slowly reinstall softwares - only those necessary.
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Click Create User.
Click Use Existing Folder.
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OS X Mavericks: Restore a deleted user
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14081
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Snags40 wrote:
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Since I've migrated thru several Macs to get to the current state on the old MacBook, I suspect the UID has changed.
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Migration Assistant - Files Transferred, but no User Account

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You know, I think I knew that about the TC USB port at one point and just forgot. I'll put a Post-It on the TC to make sure I remember from now on.
Thanks for your patience!

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Source: Windows 2003 (OS) - Windows 2000 native functional levels (domain and forest)
Target: Windows 2008 (OS) - Windows 2003 functional
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1. You need to be able to authenticate as an administrator (if his current account is an administrative account this will work). Just go to accounts, click the lock icon, and authenticate with his password. Then delete the accounts.
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If so, that would have been Setup Assistant, not Migration Assistant. From the sound of it, I'm not so certain that is what you did. They are very similar, but may produce different results. Setup Assistant appears on the first boot of the new Mac. It is generally far more problem free than Migration Assistant. If you select the option to migrate later you get MA. Have you checked to see if you don't now have another User where all your settings now reside. This can be the result of using MA.
If you didn't use SA on the first boot, it might be far less time consuming and aggravating to simply reinstall the OS and the bundled apps. This will produce a brand new option to use SA on the first boot.

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