Migrating Assistant

[marissaleap]

We bought a new iMac with OS X Mountain Lion a few months ago. My old MacBook has Snow Leopard. Is there a way to use the Migration Assistant to delete everything off my MacBook and install Mountain Lion along with the other programs?

 

[marissaleap]

Nevermind, we have Lion not Mountain Lion on the iMac. Do we really have to buy 2 operating systems for our 2 different computers to stay up to date? Mostly when Mountain Lion just came out too.

 

[ycl1688]

once you buy the mountain lion, you are in control with 2 computers, the goal is snow leopard
can be directly upgrade to ML, so does lion to ML. You have it made.

 

[marissaleap]

What I'm wondering is, can I use my firewire to transfer everything from my newly updated iMac to my MacBook? I don't need anything on my MacBook. In fact the hard drive is way too full and is working slowly. We have already transferred everything to our iMac since the hard drive is larger. I just want to start all over with my MacBook and get Lion working on it with the other updated programs.

 

[ycl1688]

Here is what I believe your imac is lion osx run, macbook is snow leopard run.
migration assistant will not migrate osx, your goal is to make macbook lion osx run.
Unless you have the lion osx installer, nothing can be done to your macbook to become a lion osx run.
So the best solution is depending on your macbook spec can it be updated to lion or Mountain Lion. If can be upgraded to ML then buy the ML osx download and install to your macbook and migrate your imac data to macbook.
By the same token upgrade your imac to ML.
see the link what they mean by Migration assistant.
Mac OS X v10.6: How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac

 

[marissaleap]

So I have to pay $40 for 2 Mountain Lions for my 2 computers?

 

[ycl1688]

No, buy one you can install upto 5 macs,





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[marissaleap]

So why can't I use Lion on more than one computer when I just barely bought my iMac with Lion? I'd rather not spend the money when I only bought my iMac in April.

 

[ycl1688]

you missed the free upgrade to mountain lion by 2 months, you could have bought around june 11 then you are qualify for free upgrade to ML. Such is life. It is upto you to choose, you want ML or not.

 

[marissaleap]

I don't want/need ML I just want to get Lion on my MacBook. Is that not possible?

 

[CebuCity]

We bought a new iMac with OS X Mountain Lion a few months ago. My old MacBook has Snow Leopard. Is there a way to use the Migration Assistant to delete everything off my MacBook and install Mountain Lion along with the other programs?

I've got what you really want.

(NEW) iMac --- Lion
you want to update to Mountain Lion on App Store.

(OLD) MacBook --- Snow Leopard
you want to update to Lion using your iMac's Lion.

The first concern here is that the iMac's Lion is paid for your iMac which is pre-installed. If you want to re-install lion in some reason, you will not get that installer unless you will run recovery, connect to apple, apple will verify your iMac, Apple will let you download the installer and run automatically. But Apple still holds your Lion installer which is not in you computer.

Solution: click here. This will guide you how to get that installer from Apple and save it in your USB thumb drive then use that installer to intstall Lion in your MacBook. By that, you need not to purchase Lion.

Hope this helps.