Migration to new drive

I had a drive that crashed on me. I installed a new one and ran migration from a super duper backup. Yes which the bootable drive would not mount. It copied the user files over but under users my account has a "-" sign bottom left of some of the folder with a red circle. Also in sys/account the username does not show up. What do I need to do so I can login to my account and get all my config/bookmarks etc.. account info back?

Drag those folders to the desktop, click Authenticate, provide your administrator password, and move the contents of the folders on the desktop to the corresponding parts of your current home folder.
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Using TM to migrate to new drive

My original MacPro Hard drive is about 3 years old so I decided I would proactive a just install another SATA drive in my MacPro. I have a TM backup, can I use that to migrate or use migration assistant. MA wants a start-up drive to migrate to. This is a blank drive. I must be missing something.

Yes, but you must first install the Mac OS X system software on the new internal hard disk though. Use your Macs original OS X DVD to Erase & Install. During the installation you will be given the opportunity to migrate your user data over form the Time Machine backup.
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Data migration from rescued drive to new internal drive

Need assistance! I recently experienced a hard drive failure on my MacBook (OS 10.5). Apple replaced my hard drive with a new one (running 10.6), and a data recovery company was able to resuce the data from my failed drive; they put it all on an external drive. I then used migration assistant to get my old data back onto the new drive. The problem is that my old home folder was encrypted with File Vault, so that data would not transfer -- i.e., my photos, music, bookmarks, old emails, etc.
I've tried booting up from the external drive, but no dice. The laptop sees the drive and looks like it attempts to start up from it, but it just keeps spinning. Are there any other tricks to access my old home folder in order to turn off File Vault so that I may transfer that data onto my new hard drive?

I tried it and i got the runtime error with "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library"
When I tried a part of options, that is no problem at all. However, when i select all options, the memory usage is increase and then the error will be returned.
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How do I migrate files created in a Windows OS to a new external drive that is formatted as a MAC drive. I want to read and write these files back to the new drive.

How do I migrate files from an external hard drive created in a Windows OS to a new MAC external drive? I want to read and write these files to the new drive.

LKrzesowski wrote:
How do I migrate files from an external hard drive created in a Windows OS to a new MAC external drive? I want to read and write these files to the new drive.
If all you're trying to do is move the files from the Windows external to the Mac external, you can simply connect them both to the Mac and drag the files from the Windows drive to the Mac drive. If you want to move the files back and forth between them, you'll need to establish the format of the Windows external. Macs can read and write to FAT32 and exFAT (which can handle files larger than 4GB) formatted drives but can only read NTFS formatted drives without additional software. With the Windows drive connected, you can check its format with Disk Utility.

Migrating old information to new laptop with new drive

I tried searching for this but also wanted a specific answer.
Here's what happened: my old Macbook (first version, from 2006) failed, but I had all its information backed up on to a Time Machine drive. The drive was a firewire drive. When my 2006-era Macbook failed, I bought a new one. However, the new laptop did not have a firewire port. I used the laptop for a few months until I could afford a new, USB external drive. Now, I've got the new computer (with some new information but no firewire port), my old firewire hard drive -- with info, and a new USB hard drive, that is completely blank.
What I intended to do was find a Mac at my university's library with both a USB and firewire drive and copy all the information to my new drive from the old one. From that point, can I just use migration assistant to merge my new Macbook and the old Macbook's information? Will it make more sense to load any new documents on my Macbook onto a flash drive, wipe its hard drive, and restore from the old Time Machine backup then add the information from the flash drive?
I don't want to have two separate accounts, either.
Thanks for your help with this annoying dilemma! I miss all my old music, photos, and videos...

plourens wrote:
Thanks for the information. Instead of using a flash drive, would it work for me to partition the drive and place any new information on the second partition of my external hard drive?
Sure (if there's room). See #3 in [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Using Snow Leopard+ forum).
If there isn't enough room to make the partition, but enough total space, you can put the files in the same partition as your backups.
You must be careful, though, as that isn't generally a good idea. You must leave enough room for Time Machine to operate; it doesn't need a lot, perhaps a hundred MBs, but if you fill it past that, your backups will crash before they can start deleting old backups to make room for new ones.
Similarly, do not add anything that way while a backup is running.
And, be very careful not to move, change, or delete anything in your backups via the Finder, as that can corrupt them.

Install and migrate to a new drive part 2

Hi -- I know someone else asked and was answered a very similar question to this tonight, but I hope someone can add a little info.
I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on a 300 main drive. I want to install Leopard, and I want to install it on a new 500 gig main drive.
I think the answer to this is to take out my current main 300 gig drive, install the 500, then install Leopard via the discs. Then I should use Leopard's Migration Assistant, right? My understanding is that Migration Assistant typically facilitates the moving of info between an older computer and a new computer, right? But if I put my original main 300 drive in my second drive bay, will Migration Assistant let me copy everything over from drive 2 to the new drive 1?
Thanks!
jennie

Jennie Hale wrote:
Hi -- I know someone else asked and was answered a very similar question to this tonight, but I hope someone can add a little info.
I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on a 300 main drive. I want to install Leopard, and I want to install it on a new 500 gig main drive.
I think the answer to this is to take out my current main 300 gig drive, install the 500, then install Leopard via the discs. Then I should use Leopard's Migration Assistant, right? My understanding is that Migration Assistant typically facilitates the moving of info between an older computer and a new computer, right? But if I put my original main 300 drive in my second drive bay, will Migration Assistant let me copy everything over from drive 2 to the new drive 1?
yes, you can do it that way.
Thanks!
jennie

Install 10.6 New Drive Migrate from Original Drive

I have a Mac Pro running 10.5.8 on it's factory original drive. What I'd like to do is install 10.6 on a new drive and migrate my account with all settings and apps to that new drive. Both drives are installed internally on the Mac Pro ready to go, Leopard Install disk at hand and waiting.

A much better step would be to
1: Clone the existing 10.5 to a Disk Utility HFS+ journaled formatted external drive using the free Carbon Copy Cloner
2: Hold option and boot from the clone, check it out. Disconnect.
3: Upgrade 10.5 to 10.6 on the orignal drive using the 10.6 upgrade disk, see how everything works (if not you can hold option and boot from the 10.5 clone and even reverse clone if necessary)
4: If the 10.6 upgrade went well, then clone that to the new larger drive (formatted HFS+ journaled first of course)
The reason for this is you avoid ANY issue with using Setup or Migration Assistant, which isn't exaclty perfect or even close.
You also get a external clone as a backup.
If your thinking, "I'm going to install 10.6 so it's fresh" all that goes to HELLO when you use Setup or Migration Assistant, you migrate all the crap from 10.5
If you really want a fresh install of 10.6, you need to do 10.5 install first so you get your free iLife, then upgrade to 10.6, then install programs from original sources, finally just copy the files from the 10.5 drive.
If your doing what your doing to optimize/defrag the drive, cloning back and forth does that as CCC copies folders/files alphabetically via the root directory.

I just had to buy a new computer because my "vintage" Mac died. after migrating my backup drive over my Adobe creative suite no longer wroks I get a 150:30 error code HELP!

I just had to buy a new computer because my "vintage" Mac died. After migrating my backup drive over to my New mac book my Adobe CS no longer works. I get a 150:30 error code HELP!

You need to reinstall it properly, not use migration.
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I need to migrate Firefox profile settings from an install on a drive where the Windows 7 OS has been corrupted to a new drive and current Windows 7 install of Firefox is active. Is there any solution? Thanks.

Had to reinstall Firefox on new drive with new install of Windows 7.
Missing all of my profile settings.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
Your old Profile is located here in Vista & Win7: <br />
''drive'':\Users\''Windows login user name''\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\''profile_name''

Migrating system to new drive

my installation is lvm2 over luks. I wish to transfer my entire system to a new drive. if I first encrypted the new drive then used
dd if=/dev/<source> of=/dev/<destination>
, would the result be adequate or should I use first set up lvm on the new device then use rsync? would dd preserve my lvm scheme?
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It's not clear what <source> and <destination> are, so FYI you'd have to dd the old encrypted device to the new raw device or the old decrypted device to the new decrypted device. But since you've already set up encryption I assume you'd go with the latter.
But I also vote for the rsync method. Just make sure to use the correct flags; there's a wiki page on the topic IIRC.

Migrate .usage files to new drive

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Fixed - use central administrator, open Monitoring, Configure usage and health data collection, Log file location.
I had to temporarily turn the Sharepoint timer service off while the .usage files were being copied to the new drive.

Help moving pictures to new drive, Win XP

My current drive is getting full. I just installed a new drive and would like migrate the photos to that new drive. I am using Windows XP.
Is there any way to perform this operation with Lightroom, and if not how to re-import the photos, without losing the information already entered in Lightroom, like tags

There is a FAQ on this. Top of Forum List.
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TimeMachine question after OS upgrade & migration to new HD

Hi
I've just upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks and I'm a bit confused about how TimeMachine should now work.
I clean installed Yosemite to a new drive and used Migration Assistant to copy everything else using the Mavericks based TM backup as the source. I still have Mavericks on the other drive while I'm evaluating Yostemite (it's my work machine) and I've turned off TM backups for the moment.
My question is if I reenable TM on the new Yosemtie system what will happen? Will it continue to backup only the changes to my user account and system, or will it backup a completely new instance of the OS and user account on the TM drive? I doubt there's enough space even though its a 4TB drive.

Mine only backed up what had changed. If required:
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Migration to new macbook aluminum

I have recently purchased the latest macbook and its a happy upgrade from my ibook g4. My current problem is when doing the original migration over the wireless network after many hours, the connection failed. I then went to attempt the process again however this time via ethernet. When I went to do this, I was not prompted with the original page that asked to transfer from an old mac and went straight into the set up.
So my question is now that i have a set up macbook how do I do the migration from my old ibook?I would love to get the basics of music, pictures and documents from my old machine.
Thanks so much!!

You can, but I would suggest you simply transfer the files manually over the network. There are some caveats to consider when moving from a PPC to an Intel Mac. See the following FAQ:
A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
If you are migrating a PowerPC system (G3, G4, or G5) to an Intel-Mac be careful what you migrate. Keep in mind that some items that may get transferred will not work on Intel machines and may end up causing your computer's operating system to malfunction.
Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
Screensavers written for the PowerPC
System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
See also What Can Be Translated by Rosetta.
In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
If you migrate a user folder that contains any of these items, you may find that your Intel-Mac is malfunctioning. It would be wise to take care when migrating your systems from a PowerPC platform to an Intel-Mac platform to assure that you do not migrate these incompatible items.
If you have problems with applications not working, then completely uninstall said application and reinstall it from scratch. Take great care with Java applications and Java-based Peer-to-Peer applications. Many Java apps will not work on Intel-Macs as they are currently compiled. As of this time Limewire, Cabos, and Acquisition are available as universal binaries. Do not install browser plug-ins such as Flash or Shockwave from downloaded installers unless they are universal binaries. The version of OS X installed on your Intel-Mac comes with special compatible versions of Flash and Shockwave plug-ins for use with your browser.
The same problem will exist for any hardware drivers such as mouse software unless the drivers have been compiled as universal binaries. For third-party mice the current choices are USB Overdrive or SteerMouse. Contact the developer or manufacturer of your third-party mouse software to find out when a universal binary version will be available.
Also be careful with some backup utilities and third-party disk repair utilities. Disk Warrior 4.1, TechTool Pro 4.6.1, SuperDuper 2.5, and Drive Genius 2.0.2 work properly on Intel-Macs with Leopard. The same caution may apply to the many "maintenance" utilities that have not yet been converted to universal binaries. Leopard Cache Cleaner, Onyx, TinkerTool System, and Cocktail are now compatible with Leopard.
Before migrating or installing software on your Intel-Mac check MacFixit's Rosetta Compatibility Index.
Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
Intel In Macs
Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
Transferring data with Setup Assistant - Migration Assistant FAQ
Because Migration Assistant isn't the ideal way to migrate from PowerPC to Intel Macs, using Target Disk Mode, copying the critical contents to CD and DVD, an external hard drive, or networking
will work better when moving from PowerPC to Intel Macs. The initial section below discusses Target Disk Mode. It is then followed by a section which discusses networking with Macs that lack Firewire.
If both computers support the use of Firewire then you can use the following instructions:
1. Repair the hard drive and permissions using Disk Utility.
2. Backup your data. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there's some other problem.
3. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
4. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
5. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
If you are not able to use a Firewire connection (for example you have a Late 2008 MacBook that only supports USB:)
1. Set up a local home network: Creating a small Ethernet Network.
2. If you have a MacBook Air or Late 2008 MacBook see the following:
MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)- Migration Tips and Tricks;
MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)- What to do if migration is unsuccessful;
MacBook Air- Migration Tips and Tricks;
MacBook Air- Remote Disc, Migration, or Remote Install Mac OS X and wireless 802.11n networks.
Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to Macjack for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.
Revised 1/6/2009

Clean migration from internal drive to 2nd internal

My hardware and software have always been tidy compared to others (judging from questions posted here, elsewhere, and seeing/using other people's Macs). However, after upgrading to Leopard, a couple of quirky problems have been driving me nuts -- problems I've posted as questions here in these forums (namely, keyboard lockout after screen sharing and alias folder repositioning). Don't know if those are actually current OS glitches or if it's just my system. Also, a third party app is no longer printing certain fonts.
Now with a spankin' new hard drive arriving soon (for other reasons), I want to do a "clean install" and migrate everything from my stock 160GB, then reformat that old little drive for other uses. I figure I might as well tidy up some more while upgrading the internal HDD. It could help iron out any minor quirks in the process and streamline the MacOS.
But I've never used +Migration Assistant+ before. Don't know if it's relevant now. I've never done an +Erase and Install+ either from DVD, though I've been reading up about it. My DVD is a 10.5.1 retail version.
Question is:
*What's the most clever way to proceed?*
For example, should I:
1. Physically install new drive in 2nd bay, run +Disk Utility+ to reformat, insert Leopard DVD and do +Erase and Install+, then run +Migration Assistant+ ? This seems logical.
-or-
2. First use Leopard DVD to do +Archive and Install+ onto the current Leopard 160GB, then do physical install of new drive in 2nd bay, use +Carbon Copy Cloner+ to mirror all contents, restart from new cloned drive, then delete Previous System folder within same, then reformat the older drive? This seems more clever.
-or-
Other cleverness?

I don't see the need for 2. You can do 1. or you can use CCCloner to clone the current install to the new drive and then do an archive and install on that directly. This will leave the original drive intact so that in case of problems you can always go back to it.
Do keep in mind that whether you use Migration Assistant or do an archive and install some of the problems you are having now might get transplanted to the new install. The only really clean way to do this is via manual migration. it's pretty tedious but will produce the cleanest system.
You'd have to do an erase and install on the new drive and then migrate what you need by hand from the old drive.
see this post for the list of things to move.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507

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