WHERE is the migration assistant? I had assumed it would be under applications, but it isn't there. This is to be used to transfer files.
I have a MAC OS X 10.7.5 with 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3. I was trying to ask what seemed like a simple question about transferring files. When I got to the page, it says to use the MIGRATION ASSISTANT. However, this is NOT in the applications file, which is where I would assume I would find it. There is NOTHING in the instruction sheet that says where to go to get it. I see that others have asked the same question, however, I did not see it was answered (said file was "locked"). Have now spent over an hour trying to ask this (including time spent trying to login).
Choose it from the Finder's Go menu, or open the Applications folder and double-click it.
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I'm getting desperate and frustrated trying to get restored -- especially because I was supposed to deal with some mail that I can't get to.chuckbo wrote:
I have a time capsule on ethernet that has had two machines hooked to it, a PB G4 and a MacBook Pro 15".
While on vacation, the PB G4 wouldn't boot. So I have a new MacBook that we just got and want to migrate from the last Time Machine backup.
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So how do I actually do the restore?
I thought about just creating a new account and then restoring what I need (the address book, bookmarks, mail, and documents). But how would that work -- how would the new account find the files from the old machine?
On my older MacBook Pro, I've used the option command to "Browse other time machine disks," but all I get is an empty selection box with the title "Choose Time Machine Disk To Browse."
that should have worked. I don't know why it didn't.
If I select the time capsule in Finder, I see the two sparsebundles.
mount the sparse bundle by double-clicking on it.
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I had to reinstall Mountain Lion on my iMac. So I made a fresh backup with TM on friday, everything was fine with it.
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