Moving from one iMac to another

So I purchased a newer/faster iMac and now I have to move my stuff over.

So I have Time Machine running on the old iMac using an external USB 1gb drive. Will that help me in the move or should I just share out the old iMac and move over what I need?

I sold the old make so I guess I will need to reload the OS to make it clean?

Any help - link - etc.. would be great!

Thanks,

DK

Boot from the installation disc, go through the process of installing OS X, when it's done it will ask you if you want to restore from a Time Machine backup.

Edit: Never mind, I just realized that you only have 1 GB of external memory for backups. Instead, just do it manually by copying over all the stuff you need.

Thanks...

I will give that a try.

Wow!

That was the most pain free thing I have ever had to not endure! I made all the connections to the new iMac including the 1TB external drive that I use for Time Machine and turned on the new iMac and it came up and asked me if I was moving from one iMac to another and so I clicked sure.. and then it asked if I wanted to restore from Time Machine and I said **** yes! then 1.5 hours later I am on my new machine like nothing has changed except now I have 3.06 speed and LED backlighting and a cool new wireless keyboard and this mouse that is very much like some sort of multi touch miracle! I am not missing one single thing?

Will it be this easy to erase the old machine???

DigitalKnight said:

That was the most pain free thing I have ever had to not endure! I made all the connections to the new iMac including the 1TB external drive that I use for Time Machine and turned on the new iMac and it came up and asked me if I was moving from one iMac to another and so I clicked sure.. and then it asked if I wanted to restore from Time Machine and I said **** yes! then 1.5 hours later I am on my new machine like nothing has changed except now I have 3.06 speed and LED backlighting and a cool new wireless keyboard and this mouse that is very much like some sort of multi touch miracle! I am not missing one single thing?

Will it be this easy to erase the old machine???

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Glad to hear the good results!

Take a look at this youtube video for a fresh install of SL.
Since you're selling your old one, just don't do the part where you restore from a T.M. backup...obviously.

MYmacROX said:

Glad to hear the good results!

Take a look at this youtube video for a fresh install of SL.
Since you're selling your old one, just don't do the part where you restore from a T.M. backup...obviously.

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Thanks for the link. It worked great.. sort of.. I had to erase the drive as there was not enough space to install the OS... or so it told me.. and then it gave some sort of error about not being able to copy or write the files to the drive and so I sorted over again with the blank HD and it worked fine the second time around.

So all is good and my step son will have a nice clean install on the old iMac that he can setup for himself using his own information.


Thanks for the help.

-DK