New computer to backup

Hey,
I am getting a new mac. I have backed up all of my files on my old mac using TM. What do I do when I get my new mac to put my files from my old mac to my new mac using my external hard drive?
Thanks.

Then you can use the migration assistant. Mind you license limitations of some applications may force you to restrict use of their software to one machine or the other. Check with each application you have as far as that's concerned.
See this article:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25773

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Iphone: new computer, dated backup

Hi everyone,
I just had my old macbook stolen and had to buy a new macbook pro. I've gone through a lot of the discussions regarding how to move one's iphone to the new computer, but still have some questions. Clearly, it is ideal to use migration assistant to transfer all the contents from one's old computer to one's new computer, but since mine was stolen, this is not much of an option for me. I do nonetheless at least have some stuff backed up on my remaining on a small backup drive, but it is fairly incomplete and it is not very current (about three or four months old). I did manage to backup my iTunes folder (the one stored in my Music folder) by simply dragging it to my backup drive, and I have managed to transfer most of my iTunes library music and apps, etc. from my back-up drive over to the new computer by doing the same. Likewise, I have gotten all the pictures and video off my phone and onto the computer, so these are not an issue, but I am concerned about preserving the rest of the content that is still on my iphone (I have still not synced it with the new computer or made the new computer it's home): namely, 1) my Contacts, 2) my Calenders, 3) my Safari bookmarks, cookies, history, and currently open pages, 4) my Map bookmarks, recent searches, and the current location displayed in Maps, 5) my Notes, 6) My application settings, preferences, and data, and 7) my SMS messages, Mail, YouTube bookmarks, Contact Favorites, Network settings (saved wifi spots, VPN settings, network preferences).
My first question then is this: I know that iTunes backs up my iPhone whenever I sync up. Might I have a backup (albeit, one that is a bit dated) somewhere in my iTunes folder, or is that backup stored elsewhere? Please let me know if I might have access to any iphone backups if (so far as this issue is concerned) I only backed up my iTunes folder, and if so, how I might go about accessing that and possibly restoring that info to my phone.
Second, however, even supposing I had an old iphone backup, I'm not even sure I'd want to sync to it, since I have a lot of important information on my phone that is more recent than what that old backup contains. I'm worried, in other words, about erasing all the content on my phone that i have added since the last backed-up back up (three or four months of new Contacts, Safari Bookmarks, Map bookmarks, and a lot of Notes). If my back-up of iTunes contains a previous iphone back-up, in other words, it would be nice to access it, but since it is probably about three months old, I would want to be careful about syncing to it, since I imagine it could erase the last three months of content which have been added to my phone since that back-up. Is this correct? If syncing to that backup meant that I would lose the last three months of info, that raises the question of whether or not I would even want to use it and whether or not I would instead want to simply act as if it did not exist (choosing, instead, to at least get my current contacts and calenders to sync with the computer and to make note of everything else I might lose and re-entering it by hand). So, 1) do I need to be careful about an unintended sync with an old and incomplete back-up that might be hiding in my somewhere in my itunes folder, and if so, 2) where is it, how does it work, and a) can I use that incomplete back-up, if it even exists, to get back some of my info without erasing the more recent stuff that now resides only on my phone, or b) do I need to erase it in order to prevent the phone from accidentally syncing to it when i first sync it up with with everything else in my iTunes folder, and if so, how do I do this?
This then leads me to my next set of questions. For the sake of making clear what all my options are, let's assume that either 1) I don't have access to any previous iphone backup or 2) that, if I do, I cannot use it without erasing all the more recent info added to my phone since that backup took place. In this event, I would presumably not want to sync or restore the phone to its state when that backup took place, since I would lose a lot of info currently on the phone (correct?), and so I'd want to proceed either 1) by acting as if I had no iphone backup at all, and thus write down everything on my phone that I think I will lose upon my first sync and manually renter it later, or 2) syncing with that backup, but first manually writing down with a pen all the info on my phone since my last back-up, then second syncing to that old back-up, then finally by going back to my phone and adding in everything that I had written down by hand, right? If I proceed by the second course of action, I am assuming that I will lose any info on my phone that was added since that last backup. Alternatively, if I proceed by the first course of action, I need to think about what information I may or may not lose when I sync up to the new computer for the first time and what information will download from the phone to the computer. In this latter case, let me ask you what info you think I will lose. As I said, the music and pics are not an issue (they are already on the new computer). But my contacts and calenders on my computer are empty, as well as my Safari bookmarks (which have only those which come on the computer out of the box). I've read on the discussion boards that, even though I do not have any contacts on my computer any longer (this was one of the incomplete parts of my backup), there is no danger of losing my contacts or calenders that are on my phone when I sync, since so long as I enter at least one new contact and calender entry onto my computer it will prompt a sync that will transfer the contents of the phone to my computer just like it does whenever I add new contacts or events to my phone. Is this correct? And, is it correct even if I make the new computer its home? Next, what about my Safari bookmarks? Will they sync with the out-of-the-box bookmarks on my computer, thus erasing all my bookmarks on my phone, or can I transfer the bookmarks from the phone to the computer in some way? Is the only option to "manually" go in and add all my bookmarks to Safari on my computer before the sync? (Alternatively, if I use an old backup for my iphone, but the new computer still has the out-of-the-box bookmarks, while the phone sync to the out-of-the-box bookmarks anyway?) Finally, I also imagine that SMS, Mail, network settings, Map bookmarks, Notes, etc. will remain unaffected, but am unsure. I really don't want to lose my Notes.
I know this is a lot, and I'm playing around with several hypotheticals here, but I want to make sure that go about this in whatever way maximizes how much info on the phone gets saved. Hope this is something you all can give me some direction on.
Thanks a ton.

Disable autosync in itunes, connect your phone, right click on it in the device list and choose backup.
This will save data, pictures taken with the phone and settings to itunes. See what's included in this backup and where it is stored on your computer here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Transfer your purchases the same way to copy all apps and bought media from the Store to your computer.
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able the merge your calendars and contacts after your phone got wiped during the first sync.
The rest of the data can be restored from the backup you made.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

Help! Synchronising iPhone on New Computer (no backup done previously)

Dear all,
My old computer crashed and I purchase a new computer and loading a new itunes. Problem is whatever option i chose, the prompt says it will overwrite data on my iphone with the info in itunes.
Appreciate if someone can guide me to backup my phone data(contacts, music etc) from the iphone to the desktop itunes.
Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the discussions,
you'll need to back up manually before you sync the first time. Here's what to do:
Set up your iTunes account on the new computer and make sure it is authorized.
Disable autosync in itunes, connect your phone, right click on it in the device list and choose backup.
This will save data, pictures taken with the phone and settings to itunes. See what's included in this backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Transfer your purchases the same way to copy all apps and bought media from the Store to your computer.
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able the merge your calendars and contacts after your phone got wiped during the first sync.
The rest of the data can be restored from the backup you made.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Music is one way only, from the computer to your device, unless you bought the songs in itunes and transferred your purchases.
There is 3rd party software out there, but not supported by Apple, see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0

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So I have two Macbook Pros - one personal, one for work. The personal Macbook Pro died earlier this week. And so I need to sync my iPhone up to the work system.
I didn't have a backup for the iPhone -- my hard disk data, music library etc. were mirrored across both computers manually -- so no problem with lost files -- just wanted to figure out how to sync the iPhone to the new system? -- How do I make this the new primary computer and get iTunes to start backing up the phone here?
I've already authorized the work Mac, so purchases are syncing across both -- just don't want to do something that erases the iPhone memory - Address Book, Notes, Messages etc.
Advice, pretty please?

Best way: Back up your iTunes library (to DVDR's, Thumb drives, ext. HD, etc.) and restore it to the new computer.
If too late or unable to backup the old iTunes:
1. Authorize your new computer in your iTunes account and log in.
2. Disable automatic syncing on connection: iTunes Prefs > Devices > Disable....
3. Connect phone to a USB port directly on the computer (not an external port)
4. Right-click the device tab of your phone (left border of iTunes window) and select "Transfer Purchases." This will transfer all iTunes purchased music, media and apps to the iTunes library on your computer. Note that is will NOT transfer music/media not purchased from the iTunes store, which you had ripped yourself. You will now be sync the phone without losing your apps and iTunes media, but you will lose the non-iTunes store media on the phone.

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New computer, no backup, can I import from iphone?

My computer crashed and unfortunately I don't have a backup of my iphone. I downloaded Itunes to my new laptop and I'm afraid if I choose Sync I will erase all the contacts/apps/music on my iphone. Is this correct? And if so how can I import all music at least from my iphone to itunes? Will I lose all my phone numbers as well?
Thanks.

It will erase everything.
No backup is not good.
Authorize your computer for your itunes account.
Connect iphone. DO NOT sync.
Click File>Transfer Purchases
Then put in at least one unique contact and calendar entry on the computer. When you first sync, you should get the option to merge the data. Choose it.
Once everything is on the computer make a backup copy of your computer and always maintain it.

How do I selectively erase old data from old computers on my Time Capsule to make room for my new computer data?

My new computer did one complete backup on the Time Capsule now I get the message that there is insufficient room to complete further backups.
(128 GB available, my backup size is 170GB but the time capsule is 998GB)
I suspect that information from old computers is there. How do I selectively remove that information or do I have to erase the whole Time Capsule and start over with my new computer and backup again?

Check the info here.. but big warning .. it often fails.. if you want to keep your old backups archive them off the TC to USB drive.. then erase and start fresh clean backup.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

ITunes On New Computer Won't Sync To iPod Touch

A couple months ago I got a new laptop. I was able to transfer all my songs over from the iPod Touch (5th Generation) to the computer successfully (including plays w/ a program I downloaded). I made changes to the library since then (deleting some songs and adding some new ones). Today for the first time since I got the new laptop, I tried to sync iTunes (updated) to the iPod 3 times but it wouldn't make any changes. I've yet to update the iOS (my iPod is 2 iOS's behind). If anyone can help, thank you in advance.

You can only sync with one computer/iTunes library. To make this your syncing computer:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
If ll the synced media like apps and music are on the new computer, just backup to iTunes and restore from that backup
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes

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Sam,
Sorry, wasn't to clear on my description (and wrong terminology)
The old computer was an OSX machine running iPhoto and I had a library of photos as well as a series of albums associated with that library.
The new computer, also an OSX machine running iPhoto, copied over the library from the old machine using the "migrate" utility. I didn't run it on the first time I ran the machine, but I ran it after I had been using the new machine for a couple of days.
What I can see on the new machine is all the folders in the Photo folder in the User folder have been copied over into the iPhoto folder. All the jpg files appear to be there.
When I open iPhoto on the new machine, it opens right away, and on the left side I can see the albums have all been imported but they are all empty. The library is also empty.
Not sure what I can do to keep my album organization.
I guess I have the option to add to library and just copy all the jpg files into the new machine, but doing this gets everything into the new library, but doesn't import any of the albums.

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Hi,
The title explains what I'd like to do but am not sure how to accomplish this. The new computer is windows 8.1 64 bit. Any suggestions?

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I want to use two separate Lion Time Machine backups and use them to create two separate profiles on one new computer

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I have time machine backups on an external hard drive that has been connected via Firewire.
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When the internal hardrive is replaced - I want to use my latest time machine backup to create one profile on the imac and then use my son's latest time machine back up for a second profile. The end goal being to have everything from my current set up ie: apps, documents, itunes, etc existing in one profile and everything in my son's current set up existing in the other profile. We can both be administrators for the time being as well. I should note even though we both have some of the same apps, we both also have other apps that the other does not.
My profile will be using about 900 gigs of total space.
My son's profile will be using about 250 gigs of total space.
This is temporary until the new iMac is released. Then I will want to transfer my profile to that leaving my son's intact on the iMac 27 I5.
I realize that during the temporary period that Time Machine will be making backups of this entire two profile setup, which I am now understanding as I write this will create a new issue for me when I want to transfer only my profile to the new computer as well. But one bridge to cross at a time, I guess.
I need to do this because we must bring his current computer to my father - as his iMac G5 is inoperable. We have been doing this round robin hand me down in our family since IMac DV special edition :-)
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Thanks very much.

Hey Shootist000, Thanks for the replies. First off, I am actually okay if we both have each other applications so I am not concerned about that. It is still unclear from what you have said as to whether I can in fact, use these two separte time machine backup to create two separate profiles on the new hard drive. If that in fact can be done, then - will it create two copies of the apps we both have in the ROOT of the drive as well as placing all the ones we each have separately?
And reading your second reply, makes me think that maybe the partition is the way to go to begin with and then down the road - after I am in the new iMac, I could reformat the iMac 27 with only one partion and restore my son's latest back prior to the reformat thus giving him full access to the 2 TB of the drive.
If this is still making sense, does this mean :
replace the 1TB with a 2TB - but have it partitione - 1.5 TB & 500 GB.
Install(Restore using Time Machine) my latest back up prior to the 1.5 partition
Install (Restore using Time Machine) my son's latest back up prior to the 500 gig partition
Lastly, in order for us both to be using the partioned computer - I am assuming Switch user can no longer be used - so would we need to restart and select our respective partions in order to use the computer? And if so, how would we each be able to be using time machine to back up - two separte external hard drives - with each one dedicated to only one partition? Or ?
Thanks so much.
Ironically, I am only trying to do this so that I don't need to manually install all his apps, setting, games, blah blah for this temporary period. :-)

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Why would you do that, and not on your own computer? See the hassle it caused you?
can he just email me the folder
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See these 2 Links...
Syncing to a New Computer...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

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I have a Macbook running Snow Leopard which I back up to an external drive using time machine. If I purchase a new MacBook pro and transfer backup from time maching to MacBook Pro will it also transfer Snow Leopard as its is my preferred O.S.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
If the new computer did not originally ship with Snow Leopard installed, no, you will not be able to go back from Lion. Snow Leopard lacks the necessary drivers required for newer hardware.

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