Migration Assitant - Leopard 10.5.8 PPC

An experienced person on this forum posted a comment to the effect that he "never used Migration Assitant." I'm running Tiger on an internal drive on a G5 PPC and moving to Leopard 10.5.8. It's installed on a second internal.
I'd appreciate any opinions on 10.5.8 MA pitfalls and if there's a better way other than a fresh install. I'm overloaded as it is.
Thanks!

I had no trouble using MA from Leopard to get Tiger Users, Settings, Apps, etc.
The potential problems would be 3rd party things like Safari Internet Add-ons that wouldn't work in Leopard & likely would cause Safari not to work, but easily fixable by removing them.
Likewise other 3rd party startup & Login items may fail in Leo/10.5

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ignore my previous message

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Matthew Palm wrote:
I have had an iMac G5 PPC for about 6 years. The logic board just died about 2 weeks ago.
I am about to purchase a new 27" iMac Quad-core i7 machine, and I am wondering what is the best way to migrate data from the old machine to the new one.
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However, I have heard that it is not good to do a straight migration from a Power PC to an Intel machine.
Is that true?
automatic migration works well for most people but problems are possible both because of architecture and system differences.
I would ideally like to transfer all my email (tens of thousands of them), my iPhoto library, my iTunes library, iCal, many many documents, and some other random stuff.
What do you recommend?
you can try automatic migration first. if you are worried about possible problems you can choose to migrate user data only but no applications. this should reduce the likelihood of conflicts. but if you run into problems you can always erase and install and do manual migration. since you have a superduper backup this option is not going away and is always available.
see this link on how to go about that
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
Should I do an automatic migration using Set Up Assistant and my external hard drive with the SuperDuper copy?
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Best,
Matt

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I own a 2009 MacBook Air which came with Snow Leopard. I have upgraded to Lion but wanted to go back to Snow Leopard so naively formatted my HD. How do I migrate from my Snow Leopard iMac now that my MacBook Air is formatted (under Lion)?

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Him Pamela, no experience with the Air, but I think you you'll need to get a USB Drive, clone the MB's drive to the USB drive...
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http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
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http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
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thanks in advance!

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