Migration assistant/Time Capsule-TM/ Superduper transfer

What would be easier: I am getting a new replacement iMac from Apple after I send back the iMac being replaced. Presently I use Superduper (back up software) to back up my system from my present imac to a FW 800 external hard drive. I also have a new Time Capsule that I have not set up for TM transfers yet since I'm getting the new iMac soon as was waiting for that to arrive to set up the Time Capsule: Would the Time Capsule be a superior way to transfer everything If I hooked it up to the Imac about to be replaced and backed everything up or can I transfer from the Maxtor to the new iMac after arrival. In the past I did Mac-Mac transfers but Apple requires me to send out the faulty (LCD screen) iMac before they send the new replacement. Sorry about the verbose query! It's late here in NYC. dennis

Afaik you could do either. Obviously it would be quicker to use your superduper backup not just because you already have it backed up, but also because the transfer back from your external drive will be MUCH quicker than from a timecapsule.
Your other option would be to setup the time capsule now, take your first back up then return the machine. When the new one arrives, during the initial setup you can chose to restore from a time machine backup there. I guess it comes down to when you want to do the waiting? Before you get your new machine or after =)

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Migration assistant + time capsule

Hello,
I'm having the following problem: I'm trying to run migration assitant to tranfer data from a Time Capsule backup to a new Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion).
As soon as I reach the "select system" screen, I select the backup disk, press continue, and then nothing happens.
Continue button becomes deactivated and migration assitant gets stuck.
Does anyone have an idea why this happens? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

Can you mount the actual disk in Finder..
When you use a different Mac to the one that is used to make the backup you might need to use a different method.
See our expert pondini's comments about using a different Mac.
Q17 http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
But read through 14-17.. restoring backups to a different OS from what was used to produce the backup can be tricky as well.

Migration assistent/Time capsule/mail

I just bought a Macbook Pro and wanted to migrate all my data from my iMac to the new Macbook Pro. First time I tried to migrate all my data from a time capsule backup everything went well, but Mail didn't respond. I thought it was because I had Snow Leopard on my iMac. Then I bought OS X Lion to the iMac, made a new backup with time capsule and then tried to migrate everything again. I got the message that the migration went well. I migrated 2 accounts but on one of them mail doesn't respond at all. Does anyone can help me on that?!

I just realised that the problem started on my iMac. I was so sure that mail was working properly before I did the backup. Now I can't access Time Machine to get back to when mail was working.

I have "migrated" my Time Capsule files to my new iMac and most of the files to me "I don't have permission to view files" I am they admin....will I thought I was. What gives?

I have "migrated" my Time Capsule files to my new iMac and most of the files to me "I don't have permission to view files" I am they admin....will I thought I was. What gives?

You should be able to change the permissions on the files.. this is yet another bungle by Mavericks I suspect.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13799
Sometimes it is because you Migrated wrongly.
http://pondini.org/TM/E10.html
It is not up to Mavericks because sadly the guy who wrote all this great info died recently.

Lost list of my wifi networks after using migration assistant / time machine

After using migration assistant / time machine to set up my new Mac I now miss the list of stored preferred Wlan/WiFi networks. So the passwords of wireless networks I. Used in the past are all gone.
Why is time machine not putting those on my new Mac as it does with many other settings?
How can I manually grab this list from my old Mac and out it on the new machine?
Will I find that time machine missed some other lists and settings as well?
Thanks for help.

I've been working through this procedure this week. It's pretty good, and when it works it appears to work quite well, but there's still some bumps in the road:
(1) Once you've migrated, Time Machine itself seems to be a little confused and future backups may fail. You might have to start again by changing to a new Time Machine disk on your new laptop. You may lose your older backups, it's not yet clear to me.
(2) You can't restore from a previous backup during the migration, only the most recent one. (You can restore from an older backup using tools on the install CD if you need to.) I suspect this won't be an issue for you.
(3) Migration Assistant once you've logged in a Migration Assistant while you're starting up a new machine seem to work slightly differently. For example, sometimes the newest copy of the applications in your Applications folder (say, iMovie) is preserved, sometimes it makes an exact restore of the old Applications folder even if it's an older version of the application.
Overall it's been a pretty good experience, and what you want to do does work, but be prepared for the possibility of some issues. I tried this back in 10.5.0 a few months ago and had a lot of problems, things seem better now under 10.5.2.
- Ert

Time capsule backups and transfer confusion

I recently got my new MacBook Pro and I decided to try and transfer all my files from my old MacBook Pro's backup on my time capsule, however, instead of transfering all the info in the beginning, I waited to do it after creating a new account. All the files transfered but they did not transfer as expected. I thought that the backup would transfer my entire backup into my new account but it didn't do that. I now have two accounts, the new one and the old one, my old one works fine but now I have this new one with only some stuff. I want to merge the two so I can have one. I planned on going through to restore my MacBook as if it was first booting but now I have two backups and i cant access either of them to restore the MacBook with. I have no idea what to do.

Yes, that's why it's best, by far, to use Setup Assistant when the new Mac first starts up. (We've asked Apple to change the wording on that window many times, to no avail ).
In theory, you can delete the new account and just use the transferred one. But that account most likely won't have permission to the older backups.
Your best bet is probably to start over, using one of the workarounds (probably #4) in the green box of Problems after using Migration Assistant. The pink box there will explain the permissions issue.
Alternatively, you might be able to copy the new items to the transferred account, per Transferring files from one User Account to another, but that won't fix the permissions problem.

Migration of TIME capsule backups

How do I migrate the old files to new TC so that I do not lose my previous revision history? (I bought a new 1TB time capsule to replace an old 500GB TC. I also want to start using the new larger TC by itself, and don't want to wipe the old TC files.

Information is in here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Lots of info there so I copy pasted the necessary part below. It's almost at the very bottom of the article.
Mac OS X v10.6: How to transfer your backups from your current hard drive to a new hard drive
If you upgrade to a new hard drive with a larger capacity, you may want to transfer your existing Time Machine backups to it before using it for regular backups. To keep your existing backups on your new, larger backup hard drive, follow these steps:
Connect your new hard drive.
In Disk Utility, make sure it has a GUID partition and is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If needed, reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended with a GUID partition. If you do not know how, see the steps in this article. Note: Back up any data on the hard drive before you format it.
Select the new drive's icon on the desktop and choose Get Info from the File menu.
Make sure "Ignore ownership on this volume" is not enabled.
Open Time Machine preferences in System Preferences.
Slide the Time Machine switch to Off.
In Finder, double-click the current backup hard drive to open its Finder window.
Drag the folder "Backups.backupd" to the new hard drive.
Enter an administrator user name and password, then click OK to start the copying process. This may take some time to complete because all your backups will be copied.
In Time Machine System Preferences click "Select Disk…"
Select your new hard drive, then click "Use for Backup."
Now, on your new hard drive, you will have all of your existing backups from the previous backup hard drive plus have more room for more new backups.
Time Capsule, Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later: How to transfer your back up from an existing Time Capsule to a new oneFor this process, you should leave your computer in the same room as the Time Capsules, or use one Ethernet cable to connect your Mac to the Ethernet port on the existing Time Capsule, then use another Ethernet cable to connect from the existing Time Capsule to the new Time Capsule.
Configure your Time Capsule for your network. See the documentation that came with your Time Capsule for information about setting it up on your network.
Open Time Machine preferences in System Preferences.
Slide the Time Machine switch to Off.
Open a Finder window.
Locate both Time Capsules listed in the SHARED section of the navigation pane on the left of the Finder window. Note: If you do not see your Time Capsules in that section, choose Preferences from the Finder menu and make sure "Connected servers" is checked under SHARED.
Select the name of the new Time Capsule in the navigation pane. The default name is "Time Capsule xxxxxx", with xxxxxx being the last digits of the ID printed on the bottom of the Time Capsule.
Mount the volume by double-clicking the name of the volume in the Finder window's main section. The default drive name is "Data".
Open a new Finder window by pressing Command-N, or by choosing File > New Finder Window.
Repeat the previous 2 steps with the other Time Capsule, to mount it.
Drag your backup disk image from the current Time Capsule to the new Time Capsule. This can take some time to complete because your entire backup will be copied.
Open Time Machine preferences in System Preferences.
Click "Select Disk...", then select your new Time Capsule.
Perform a Time Machine back up.
After the back up, you can remove the Ethernet cables if desired and configure your wireless network to your liking.

After Migration Assistant, Time Machine refuses to use old backups

I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed with Time Machine.
I just dropped $2,000 on my second-ever Mac, a 15" MBP (Core i7 2GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 5200rpm hard drive, the stock low-end 15" config). From what I'd heard about Migration Assistant, I believed it would easily move my stuff over to my new Mac. For the most part it did, but a few things didn't transfer. Other posts on the topic detail them accurately - Desktop icon layouts, some settings, Growl, etc.
I told Migration Assistant to use my Time Machine backups, which have been happening without incident for a long time. My oldest backup is December 2010.
Now that my new MBP is about 99% set up like my old MBP, I am having a problem with Time Machine.
I get the error "Time Machine could not complete the backup. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 355.61 GB but only 176.44 GB are available."
Looking at the Time Machine drive in Finder, I found that Time Machine is trying to create a new folder for backups and do a full backup. Where there was once one folder, "[My Name]'s MacBook Pro," there is now an additional folder, "[My Name]'s MacBook Pro 2." Time Machine is trying to back up into that second directory.
Now, I get it that this is a different computer. But really, if I use Migration Assistant to restore my Time Machine backup, I think it would be safe for OSX to assume that I want to continue using those backups. What is especially disappointing for me is, there were things that Migration Assistant did not restore properly. I probably haven't found them all. That makes it CRUCIAL that I have my Time Machine backups, but it seems that Apple thinks it's perfectly normal for me to want to FORMAT my Time Machine drive after Migration Assistant did a half-*** job of migrating my data. I need those backups now more than ever.
I do also have an online backup, but I still don't feel very comfortable destroying six months of local backups just to make Time Machine work again. Both MBPs were running the same (latest) version of Snow Leopard, so it stands to reason all that needs to happen is a very small incremental backup.
I have been Googling for hours. All I've found is a procedure for 10.5 that doesn't work in 10.6 where I get down into the Terminal and change a MAC address in a file on the Time Machine volume. But that's it. In fact it seems like there's no answer.
Come on Apple, you do everything else better than the competition. Why do I have to nuke six months of backups or buy a new 2TB external drive to make Time Machine work again? I assure you I want to continue making incremental backups against my old Time Machine backups, and promise to hold you not responsible should I screw something up by grabbing an old system file or something from February.
Would appreciate any help anyone could offer.

Did you use Setup Assistant when your new Mac first started up, or skip that, create a user account, then use the Migration Assistant app in your Applications/Utilties folder?
If you used Setup Assistant, when you started your first backup you should have gotten the message in #B5 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting. It sounds like you didn't (or chose Start New Backup). And no, the Leopard procedure doesn't work on Snow Leopard. That's what #B5 is for.
Usually, if you use Setup Assistant, Time Machine will still say it's going to do a full backup, and make room for it, but actually do an incremental backup (very, very slowly).
Either way, it usually deletes a lot of old backups. We're hoping that will be fixed in Lion.
Once it's decide to make a new backup, there's no known way to prevent it.

Migration assistant; Time Machine; extra external HD

Hello all!!!
I just got a new MacBP and I would like to migrate all my files/settings to my new one from my old one via Time machine back up.
My set up as of now is this: I have a external HD that I include in my TM backup and a HD exclusivly for TM backup (total of 2 external HD's).
Should I connect the exteral HD and the Time machine HD to the new MBP when I use Migration assitant or just my TM backup?
It makes sence not to connect my HD since I'm not messing with my external HD to migrate; all i'm moving is are my settings, apps, and files (all) that are in my TM backup.
Thanks
Eric

Good. In that case you can do the following:
Start up the new computer which will boot to the Setup Assistant.
Connect your Time Machine backup drive to the computer. Use Firewire if possible because it will be faster than USB.
Complete the registration in Setup Assistant.
You will get a screen in which you can opt to restore from a TM backup. Select that option.
Follow instructions for migrating your Home folder, third-party applications and support files, and system preferences.
Upon completion of the migration process you should be logged into your migrated account.
Also, see:
How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac
Migration Assistant tips and tricks
OS X Lion- How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac

Migration using Time Capsule

I'm planning for a new MacBook Pro and looking for alternatives to firewire for migration assistant. I remember one option being connect to Time Capsule last time round.
What are the pro's and cons of using a time machine back up and USB connection to Time Capsule to accomplish my next migration, if my new MacBook Pro no longer has firewire. Is there any advantage to connecting TC versus directly to my MBP?

FireWire will be much faster than your TC. You also can't partition your TC without hacking around a bit.
At least the TC can be placed in a different room, giving you more of a backup insurance policy due to a Flood/Fire, etc.

Trouble migrating from time capsule back-up

I am hoping to migrate data from a time machine back-up to a new mac. I connected the back-up disk (which backs up multiple computers) and initiated the migration assistant. Unfortunately, when I get to the point of selecting which details I wish to transfer, I am directed to a back-up from a different machine. How can I redirect the migration to use a different back-up file? I tried to copy my target back-up into the backups.backupdb folder but I do not have permissions to do this.

Read through Q14-17 here. So you can understand how to use TM.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Or look at the details here.
http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html

Permission issues after Snow Leopard clean install, Migration Assistant+Time Machine restore.

Hello, here's the situation.
I've done a clean install, for various reasons, I've got backups including one done just before the clean install. Following directions somewhere else I set up a user account called "test" just for the purposes of reimporting PART of my old system, since one of the reasons I did the clean install was to clean up my system (get rid of all those little ghosts of old programs, the old programs themselves, files and settings I not longer want etc.) so I didn't want to just import the whole thing. So I imported just the user account and a few folders such as music and photos that I knew I wanted back on. Then I restarted so that it would log back into my old user account that's been restored using Migration assistant. So far so good. I enter time machine and start restoring Applicatons, their associated support files, a few preference panes, some other files and folders I want back on, so and and so forth. Then I enter my old home folder and see that many of the subfolders I don't have access to, I check their permissions with Get Info and see that read/write access has been granted to my test account, which is ridiculous since it didn't exist when they were backed up. Some searching reveals that on the first Time Machine back-up after a restore like this it should as at the start whether I want to inherit he old backups, so I tell Time machine to do a backup, figure that it shouldn't take much, seeing as there's nothing new, and I've put it all in the same place as in the backup. It doen't give me any such prompt, instead just starts indexing/preparing hundreds of thousands of files, and tells me that the backup should take about 135 gb of space. I stop the backup, give up on working this out myself, and come here. Help?
Of note
The "harddrive" (it's a partition, I've got Windows on the other part) is not named the same as it was in the backups, would this affect it?

I'm not familiar with Lightroom.
Where is the "Lightroom 2 catalog" folder in the second message, and what are it's permissions?
Note that +Repair Permissions+ only repairs permissions on files installed by OSX or certain Apple apps, and you should use the version of Disk Utility that's on your OSX volume, not your Install disc. See: [About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452].

HT4889 Apple Store changed hard disc - created user account ("User"). I ran migration assistant / time machine. All files migrated but on "User" I can't open them. Help!

I changed my Seagate 1 Tb hard disc under the Apple Exchange Program.I received the iMac and the Apple Store created a new account on my iMac ("User"). I connected the Time Machine and ran the migration assistant. All files etc. have migrated. I can see the Macintosh HD and my old user account but am not allowed to open them. How can I get back to my old settings etc.?

what is the message that you get when you try to open a file?
1. You can try to change the permissions to see if they will allow you to write to the file(s).
2. Naviagte to your Home folder Macintosh HD-->Users-->Username and press command+i to get info and on the bottom of the screen click on the lock and unlock the security check, remove your current username and then re-add it and next to the minus symbol click and select apply to enclosed folders

Migration Assistant - Selecting which applications to transfer

Hi,
I have upgraded to snow leopard and want to use migration assistant to transfer some of the files and apps of my old installation. As far as i can see, there is not much room to maneuver around which applications and files will be transfered. Is there a way to manually which applications and files will be transfered?
One more question, if I select machine under the settings subcategory, what will be transfered?
Thanking you in advance,
Thanos

deltagr wrote:
Hi,
I have upgraded to snow leopard and want to use migration assistant to transfer some of the files and apps of my old installation. As far as i can see, there is not much room to maneuver around which applications and files will be transfered. Is there a way to manually which applications and files will be transfered?
you can only transfer all applications or none at all. MA does not let you pick and choose which apps to transfer. it does let you choose which data folders to transfer to some degree. you can click on the triangle next to your account name and select which default folders from your account to move.
One more question, if I select machine under the settings subcategory, what will be transfered?
machine? where do you see that?
found it. I'm not sure exactly what that is. the total size is very small so this is most likely some general computer settings like the computer name.
Thanking you in advance,
Thanos
Message was edited by: V.K.

Migration assistance won't work to transfer music on i tunes from my old Dell laptop?

does anyone have experience to share to enable me, new to an apple mac pro, to transfer music over from my dell laptop. the migration assistant says it is unable to do this when i try.

You followed this:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

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