New MBP...Want my old PBG4 data on new MAC
Last friday my PB G4 bit the dust. Took it to the Apple store genius bar and they were unable to fix the disk and told me it would have to be sent in. Since my MAC was 4 years old, I opted for a new MBP. I had been running OS X (10.5.4) with time machine back-up to a My Book 500GB. This morning I plugged the My Book into the new MAC but can't figure out how to get my old data on my new machine. When I open TM I see both machines there and if I open my old machine files my data is apparently there. How do I get all my old files, applications and data on my new MAC?
Thank you.
Aloha,
Bob
you can use Migration Assistant (it's in /Applications/Utilities) which allows Migration from TM backups. However, using MA to migrate from PPC to intel machines is very iffy. you can try it and see if it works. don't migrate any applications. migrate users only. reinstall the applications by hand.
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