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Hi all.
I currently have an early 2010 iMac running 10.6.8. It's been a good friend and while there's nothing really wrong with it , it's kind of slow and don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading to Yosemite on this machine that has only 4GB of RAM and is out of warrantee.
I am purchasing a one year old iMac from a friend and I know it's in good shape. 1TB hard drive and almost two years left on apple care. My last back up is over 8 months old so I need to do a new one before taking ownership of the new computer. I will retain my old iMac for at least a few weeks after I get the new one.
I have an external hard drive but it's not time machine compliant for some reason. On the old imac I have tons of photos, hours of family videos and downloaded and ripped videos, and various work documents, PPT, XLS, Word etc. I also have a 45 GB music library in Itunes.
I am wondering if I should just copy the entire hard drive to my external hard drive and really start from "scratch" with the new iMac. I am almost positive I don't have any virus or malware on the old mac but you never know. I could buy a time machine compliant external drive but when I restore to the new Imac will I be also dragging over any problems from the old iMac? And if I do the Time Machine Option how long will 500GB take to restore? And will the computer look just like my old one? Same folder structure ? And as for my old apps like iLife and older versions of certain other programs that may not be compatible with Yosemite..will those move over and not function?
Basically I am just thinking of starting fresh and doing things manually over a week or two as my current imac is kind of all over the place with files here and there. But if everything moves over as it was on the old machine I guess I could take my time and do the same thing.
Really appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thank you!
Jackie
I currently have an early 2010 iMac running 10.6.8. It's been a good friend and while there's nothing really wrong with it , it's kind of slow and don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading to Yosemite on this machine that has only 4GB of RAM and is out of warrantee.
I am purchasing a one year old iMac from a friend and I know it's in good shape. 1TB hard drive and almost two years left on apple care. My last back up is over 8 months old so I need to do a new one before taking ownership of the new computer. I will retain my old iMac for at least a few weeks after I get the new one.
I have an external hard drive but it's not time machine compliant for some reason. On the old imac I have tons of photos, hours of family videos and downloaded and ripped videos, and various work documents, PPT, XLS, Word etc. I also have a 45 GB music library in Itunes.
I am wondering if I should just copy the entire hard drive to my external hard drive and really start from "scratch" with the new iMac. I am almost positive I don't have any virus or malware on the old mac but you never know. I could buy a time machine compliant external drive but when I restore to the new Imac will I be also dragging over any problems from the old iMac? And if I do the Time Machine Option how long will 500GB take to restore? And will the computer look just like my old one? Same folder structure ? And as for my old apps like iLife and older versions of certain other programs that may not be compatible with Yosemite..will those move over and not function?
Basically I am just thinking of starting fresh and doing things manually over a week or two as my current imac is kind of all over the place with files here and there. But if everything moves over as it was on the old machine I guess I could take my time and do the same thing.
Really appreciate any thoughts or advice.
Thank you!
Jackie