Swapping to a new machine

I'm about to have to give up my corporate macbook for an iMac. I have an external hard drive that has kept up as my time machine. Can I use this to move out and move in?

Excellent, that's reassuring. The Setup Assistant is I presume on the iMac - will I still be able to get to it if the corporate IT team have run it to corporize the machine before they let me touch it?
many thanks
Gary

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Can I swap my old macro drive into my new machine

I havea Early 2008 MacPro, and am just about to buy the latest (2010) model
Can I take the drive out of my old Mac Pro and pop it into the new one, to save transferrig everything across?
Johnny

It's a crap shoot. It probably won't work (different hardware). But it shouldn't hurt to try. Don't know what Linc is thinking about it not being "advisable". If it doesn't boot, or hangs with a gray screen, or hangs attempting to login, then you will know.
But you could boot in your new machine's boot drive and use migration assistant to move stuff from the old to the new.

Possible to just swap monitor profile onto new machine?

Might have to get some more horsepower in quick.
At the moment though, we don't have the time to set up the new machines beyond 30 mins or so... so is there any catch/problem to pulling off the monitor profile off an old machine and using it on a new machine if it's driving the very same monitor?
just wondering if there's some monkeying beyond that i'm not aware of... jumping from 10.4.11 to whatever the latest kitty litter is as well.
cheers

yep, that was my thinking mike.
if it was 100% safe i'd do it, but it means re-calibrating monitors, which we're happy with for the short term.
problem is that the calibration will monkey with the monitor's hardware, which makes back tracking impossible as well.
just wanted to add some horsepower onto a project without upsetting the apple cart.

Can not register a new machine with Updatemanager

Hi,
I just install a new machine with Solaris 10 using a Flash image and Live Upgrade. The original machine from we create the Flash image was registered succesfull using Update Manager.
Now, when I try to register the new machine, the applications ask me the user and password, but do not makes anything. The dialog freeze. The only way to stop the Update Manager is killing them (at the end is the full java error stack).
I try with sconadm,
sconadm register -a -r /var/tmp/registration.profile
Unsuccessfull too, with the same stack error (Caused by: javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: ).
I'm bored with the Solaris patch system: all the weekend was saying error 500 for all my other registered machines, and now I can not register a new machine....
This system fails all the time.. Is runing under W2K3 server???
Any Idea?
Thanks in advance.
H.
P.S: Error stack output:
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
        at $Proxy1.getInstanceName(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.scn.client.SCNClientSession.login(SCNClientSession.java:371)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.cacao.ClientLoginCacaoAdapter.loginAccount(ClientLoginCacaoAdapter.java:209)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.wizard.cli.CmdLineWizard.outCall(CmdLineWizard.java:1109)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.wizard.cli.CmdLineWizard.output(CmdLineWizard.java:773)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.wizard.swing.WizardPanel.isNavigationAllowed(WizardPanel.java:1337)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.wizard.swing.WizardDialog.okByNavigationListener(WizardDialog.java:583)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.wizard.swing.WizardDialog.access$100(WizardDialog.java:64)
        at com.sun.cns.basicreg.wizard.swing.WizardDialog$NextButtonActionListener.actionPerformed(WizardDialog.java:404)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1849)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2169)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5517)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3135)
        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5282)
        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3984)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3819)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1791)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3819)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:153)
        at java.awt.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:535)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
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        at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1349)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.getClassLoaderFor(JmxMBeanServer.java:1300)
        at com.sun.jdmk.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:285)
        at com.sun.cacao.agent.DispatchInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(DispatchInterceptor.java:548)
        at com.sun.cacao.agent.auth.impl.AccessControlInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(AccessControlInterceptor.java:427)
        at com.sun.jdmk.JdmkMBeanServerImpl.getClassLoaderFor(JdmkMBeanServerImpl.java:1130)
        at com.sun.cacao.common.instrum.impl.InstrumDefaultForwarder.getClassLoaderFor(InstrumDefaultForwarder.java:153)
        at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$4.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1308)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.getClassLoaderFor(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1305)
        at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:768)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:294)
        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:149)
        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:466)
        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:707)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
        at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:247)
        at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:223)
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Well,
The problem was a Memory problem: The swap file was misconfigured. Once the system reboots with the correct swap configuration I was able to register the machine.
Anyway, the problem to connect with SunSolve is continous, but it is other point of discussion.
I hope this solution can help people with similar problems.
H.

How to install Premiere CC (not 2014) on a new machine?

Just added a new machine to the studio, and am looking for a way to install Premiere Pro CC 7.2.x.
The rest of the studio still hasn't upgraded to 2014 (and, no offence Adobe, but your track record means there's a few good months of forum-watching standing between me and a site-wide upgrade to a .0 product from you )
This machine has a new license, but I've also tried swapping licenses with another suite so that this new computer is using a CC account from the 7.x era.
I understand I'm supposed to be able to click on "More Information" in the Creative Cloud app, but that's not an option for me. Only "View Tutorials". Note that only the Premiere Pro CC 2014, and not Premiere Pro CC, appears in my Creative Cloud app, presumably because of the fresh install.
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Generally speaking you can install recovery image on every compatible HDD so thee should not be any problem about it.
Please tell us what happen when you start recovery installation. Which error message is shown?
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Swapping HDs with new MBP: What to do with OS X?

I purchased a new MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i7 quad-core from the Apple Store Thursday morning with the 750GB 5400RPM hard drive. I now have time to set up the new machine but I am hung up on how best to deal with swapping hard drives. My current MBP has a 640GB 7200RPM hard drive with OS X 10.6.6 installed. I am a photographer so the faster drive makes a big difference with large photo catalogs. I had planned on swapping out the new 750GB 5400RPM drive for my current 640GB 7200RPM hard drive and then get back to work, however, I am concerned that the OS X installed on the 640GB 7200RPM hard drive will not be compatible with the new machine's processor. Should I do the swap and then boot up from the new laptop's OS X install disks and do a OS X only install? I have never done a OS X only install/update, will any other data be altered, any suggestions on how to proceed? Should I just swap, start up and then run Apple Software Update?
I would prefer avoiding an erase and install, cloning, migration, Adobe registration issues, etc and going the HD swap and OS X disk update route if it can work.
Thanks for your input,
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I found this discussing looking to do the same thing-ish.
I just bought a new i7 quad MacBook Pro (delivered today). Less than 4 weeks ago, I had picked up an i5 MacBook Pro. Since I'm still in my return window, I decided the buy the new one, do the hard drive shuffle and return the less new one.
I have a 500gb 7200rpm drive AND a 120gb SSD in the drive bay. I really never considered just swapping the drives into the new machine, but I thought I'd search and see if anyone had any success.
I had a couple thoughts on how I'm going to do the shuffle:
1) Superduper clone the SSD back onto my 500gb. I the system as it is now started life on the 500gb. Superduper (registered) will do a backup only updating the changed files which shouldn't be too bad. I have my user directories (separate from the startup disk) on the 500gb so SD won't have to copy any of those files. Then I figured I could use the migration software to copy all my 'stuff' (minus user directory) back onto the newly reformatted SSD with 10.6 installed onto the new MBP.
2) I was noticing that migration assistant can work from Time Machine, so I'll probably do that since my SSD time machine backup doesn't contain my gigantic user directory. I'll still do a SuperDuper backup just to be safe.
I'm tempted to throw my hard drive into an external usb to see if it boots just for the heck of it.

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I'm currently using a PPC Mac Mini, but recently purchased a used G5 to replace it. I'd like to have as seamless a transition as possible; I have an external HD enclosure which holds a SATA internal drive as my backup drive, and I'm planning on using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my Mini's startup drive to that external drive. Once that's done, I'd like to simply pull that SATA drive out of the external enclosure and mount it inside the G5.
From a software standpoint, is there any particular reason why that wouldn't work? I'm thinking back to the olden days, when system installs might come with specialized extensions or be custom tailored for certain pieces of hardware--is there likely to be anything in my Mini's system that would make the G5 say 'Wha?' and choke? Am I better off just using Migration Assistant, or could I theoretically just swap the drive in?
Any suggestions would be welcome! TIA!

I perhaps should have been clearer on the "new" machine--it's a dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 (PPC, not Intel).
According to these specs:
http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/PowerMacG5.html
...the G5 came from the factory with a SATA drive, and the diagrams in the manual's section on adding or replacing an internal drive certainly appear to show SATA connectors on the drive. Am I missing something on that front?
As for Migration Assistant, does that grab all of a user's settings (i.e. preferences files in the Library folder, etc.) and incorporate them into the "new" machine's Library, or does it just grab my files (i.e. Documents folder, Applications folder, etc.) and copy them for me and leave me to put the pieces back together?
The biggest issue I'm trying to avoid is going back and rebuilding all of my preferences--stuff like resetting my network settings, rebuilding window layouts in Photoshop, all of the stuff that really personalized my Mini to the way I wanted it to be.
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UsiTime Machine to move an old machine's file organization to a new machine

I have an Old 24" IMac and an newer imac. Time Machine is resident on an external HD, and I want to swap out machines, BUT while preserving the organization and files of the older machine.
Possible? Or must I reformat, port from Snow Leopard or Leopard and use the utilities==? restore option?
Thanks

Thanks,
nice to find more paranoid people...I learnt the hard way. When Time Machine was new I embraced it with relief told a machine about to be moved out of production to make a back up...it reported that it had. I erased the machine...successive 1s and 0s and then found Time Machine reported incorrectly, it made a disk image not a full backup. Sixteen years of data gone...three weeks to pice it together from network, thumb drives, CDs and Zip drive backups...never fully. After a go round with Apple support up the chain, Apple made a service and interface change so others could not do the same. The old adage: "I may be paranoid...but it doesn't mean that they are not out to get me" resonates here. Your procedure suggestions are helpful.
Yes, I have used Wikidot since Snow Leopard came out. Many problems are identified, including the one with the Adobe products. But not many fixes are posted unfortunately. The site has a neat little client for you own machine to scour problem software that one may have installed. I found it useful.
RE the new machine...it is brand new out of the box. Well new three months ago, I have not had time to put it in production till now. I am inclined to update to Snow leopard and then add files....living a bit dangerously. BUT I will not give up the full back up... just in case. (-;
Thanks also for the tip to Carbon Copy Cloner...I am will acquire it asap.
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I have an external drive for backing up my laptop and have been backing up with TM. However, I know I'm getting a new machine in about a month. Will I be able to continue my backups as a continuous stream where I left off?
I see two problems. First is that I'm probably going to change the name of the machine. Can I just change the folder name within Backups.backupdb to match?
Second, someone reported that a logic board swap caused the backup set not to be recognized
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1350465
This implies TM doesn't want to be fooled.
I could believe that TM doesn't want to make this easy today. But if there's no way to do this, then it's a serious design flaw. People normally upgrade their machines (particularly laptops) every 2-4 years, and saying that TM won't span an upgrade makes it a lot less useful (or will encourage people to hold off buying a new machine).

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New Machine - India (Components are costly here)

I know there is lot of information available for the same but as I reside in India and all the components are costly here I m raising same question again
I am building new machine for the semi-pro use (Not yet planned for commercial aspect of my Skills :-) )
so I want miniman good configuration setup for CS6
What I have came up after researching lot of places and looking at my pocket is
Type
Specifications
CPU
Intel Core I 7 3770 -   3D Generation    Cache Memory 8Mb 3.4 Ghz
Motherbord
INTEL DB75EN (8 SLOTS OF RAM)
RAM
16 GB DDR3 1333Mhz (8*2) (Will increase it later)
Key Board+ Mouse etc.
Cabinet
CM HAF 912 COMBAT TOWER (VIP SERIES)
Cooling System
Radiator unit, a High thrust Fan, piping goes to CPU and liquid coolant
OS LICENCE
Windows 7 64 Bit
DVD RW/BLUE RAY
DVD RW
Monitor
DCR = 50 MILLION : 1 / 1920 X 1080 RESOUTION FULL HD
Graphic Card
NVIDIA GTX-470/580 (680 costs way beyond my budget)
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500GB SATA 1st Solid State Drive (Operating System).
Hard Disk2
1TB SATA 2nd Hard Drive (More than 7500 RPM)
Hard Disk3
500GB in RAID0 for storing data files
Hard Disk 4
500GB in RAID0 for storing data files
SMPS(PSU)
1200W
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>CM HAF 912
That case comes with 2 fans, front and rear, and the pictures on Newegg show places to mount 2 more fans, top and side
Consider adding those 2 optional fans to blow more air into the box... cooler components generally last longer
>Windows 7 64 Bit
Make sure you get the PRO version to be able to go above 16Gig of ram
>500GB SATA 1st Solid State Drive
I agree with Harm that you do not need that large/expensive a boot drive... I have Win7 64bit Pro and CS5 Master Collection and MS Office Pro and all the "usual" My Documents stuff on my boot drive, and all that only uses 70Gig of space
Drive C space http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1007934?tstart=0
I also have my Windows swap/page file on my 2nd hard drive... find instructions at http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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I just migrated from an older iMac to a new one, and now when I try to open iPhoto I get the message "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto". I tried updating iPhoto on the new machine, but it seems to be up to date. The old library is VERY large (>35 GB), and I don't want to have to go back and deal with touching up all the photos again. Any ideas?

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I used Target mode to transfer files to a new iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 from an older Dual core Intel machine (EMC 2105) also on 10.6.8. but originally Tiger 10.4. The operation was successful and I ejected the disk icon from the new machine and po

IS THE SITUATION HOPELESS
I used Target mode to transfer files to a new i7 iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 from an older Dual core Intel machine (EMC 2105) also on 10.6.8. but originally Tiger 10.4. The operation was successful and I ejected the disk icon from the new machine and powered down the old machine. When this was restarted the next day there was a grey screen with flashing Mac symbol alternating with a 'no entry' sign and occasionally a question mark.Keyboard and mouse were unusable so k inserted the original instal disc (No.1 for 10.4. with installer 1.0.4) which came with the machine in 2006 in an attempt to boot from this. The ensuing window said this was not possible and now it cannot be ejected.I have tried everything ! It offers Disk Utility and other options like Terminal but that doesn't work either.I 'repaired disk' and that was pronounced o.k. None of the various keystrokes at start up will work, and the computer will only offer the installer disc continually.The only option would seem to be is to erase the hard drive completely from the disc in the machine.I don't want to do this as there is still material which I need to recover. I think the drive has in some way been corrupted by using it in target mode, and I don't know if there are any other options to try.
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Graham Giles wrote:
Have you seen this type of problem before? I think it could be a serious issue for anyone in a similar position.
No; but then, I've not had occasion to use TDM. I've been using firerwire drives for over 10 years, both FW400 and FW800, with no issues except a bit of instability using a B&W G3 machine.
TDM should be safe. Using cautious, manual copying of files from the Target machine to the Host machine should not result in unexpected loss of files or damage to the Target drive's directories. It should behave exactly the same as if it were an external (to the Host) firewire drive.
• I don't suppose there is anything I can do to 'put back' lost items from a separate Time Machine drive which has an up to date backup on it.
There is probably a way to do that - seems to me that's one of the reasons for a Time Machine volume.
On the other hand, if the Time Machine volume is rigidly linked to the now-absent OS on the original drive, there may be no way to effectively access the files in the TM archive.
I know that using a cloned drive would work well in this instance.
I have no experience with Time Machine, so perhaps someone who has will chime in with suggestions.
With the machine in TDM with the other machine, have you tried running Disk Utility to see if you can effect repairs to the drive?

How do I transfer all the information in my iTunes on my old mac book to my new mac book pro so I can sync my devices to the new machine with erasing all the data my iPhone and iPad?

I have just bought a new mac book pro and want to use this machine as the main computer to which I will sync my iPhone and iPad.
How do I transfer the information within iTunes on my old mac book so when I connect the devices the new machine will not erase all my data?
Thank you

Copy the entire iTunes folder within the music folder on your old Mac to the music folder on your new Mac.
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You need to combine all the links to one HTML file.
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