Hello,
I am just setting my new Imac. I want to be sure I dont do anything wrong, so I am asking for some instructions.
I have a Dell XP Laptop with a 500GB external drive--on the drive are about 200GB of music and all of my photos and videos. We have one itunes account, and wife and I each have an Iphone. (4 and 3GS respectively)
My Imac is brand new out of the box, and has 1TB disc. My thinking is I should move (somehow--this is where i need the help) all of that music and other files to new computer--set up itunes at some point (before or after the move?) after everything is working on new Imac, then reformat HDD and copy music and files back to HDD for backup purposes.
Is this the way I should do this? If so how? And, as a side question, should I update both Iphones to OS 5.1 before I do this?? The windows PC has Itunes v. 10.5.2.11 already. Itunes is not yet installed on Imac (unless it is there by default)
Supposedly Migration assistant can do this, but it creates a different user account--I do not understand what limitations this new account will create, and if i can migrate info from more than one PC onto the Imac.
I know this is alot of questions--but I am new to Mac and dont want to screw up 200GB of music in the process. Thanks in advance for any help and advice.
Dave
I am just setting my new Imac. I want to be sure I dont do anything wrong, so I am asking for some instructions.
I have a Dell XP Laptop with a 500GB external drive--on the drive are about 200GB of music and all of my photos and videos. We have one itunes account, and wife and I each have an Iphone. (4 and 3GS respectively)
My Imac is brand new out of the box, and has 1TB disc. My thinking is I should move (somehow--this is where i need the help) all of that music and other files to new computer--set up itunes at some point (before or after the move?) after everything is working on new Imac, then reformat HDD and copy music and files back to HDD for backup purposes.
Is this the way I should do this? If so how? And, as a side question, should I update both Iphones to OS 5.1 before I do this?? The windows PC has Itunes v. 10.5.2.11 already. Itunes is not yet installed on Imac (unless it is there by default)
Supposedly Migration assistant can do this, but it creates a different user account--I do not understand what limitations this new account will create, and if i can migrate info from more than one PC onto the Imac.
I know this is alot of questions--but I am new to Mac and dont want to screw up 200GB of music in the process. Thanks in advance for any help and advice.
Dave