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I just transfered all of my data from an external drive onto a new machine. The old data was from a MB running Tiger and the new machine has Leopard. What happened was that my original MB was replaced by Apple, so I didn't have it in hand anymore.
I had a really hard time with migration assistant b/c it doesn't have an option for an external drive, just for another Mac or a partition or Time Machine. None of which was my set up. My data was backed up using Super Duper, which isn't compatible with Leopard.
I thought if I even tried to use SuperDuper or just copied and pasted my files I could overwrite the Leopard, which was not worth risking.
So I called Apple and asked them how to do it. I was on the phone with them for almost 2 hours, not on hold at all! Talking the whole time! I had to make back ups of a bunch of library and preference folders. Then delete those files from the new machine and copy the old files into those folders. Then I hand selected and copied the Apps. Then iTunes, which they couldn't quite help me with, I figured it out on my own; same for Address book and Mail. And individually all the preferences for the other apps.
So was there a better way? I'm not sure I want to here the answer, lol!
Is everone else who's upgrading to leopard doing it with the same machine or directly connecting their old one to the new one? Seems like I can't be the only one who has to do this...
I had a really hard time with migration assistant b/c it doesn't have an option for an external drive, just for another Mac or a partition or Time Machine. None of which was my set up. My data was backed up using Super Duper, which isn't compatible with Leopard.
I thought if I even tried to use SuperDuper or just copied and pasted my files I could overwrite the Leopard, which was not worth risking.
So I called Apple and asked them how to do it. I was on the phone with them for almost 2 hours, not on hold at all! Talking the whole time! I had to make back ups of a bunch of library and preference folders. Then delete those files from the new machine and copy the old files into those folders. Then I hand selected and copied the Apps. Then iTunes, which they couldn't quite help me with, I figured it out on my own; same for Address book and Mail. And individually all the preferences for the other apps.
So was there a better way? I'm not sure I want to here the answer, lol!
Is everone else who's upgrading to leopard doing it with the same machine or directly connecting their old one to the new one? Seems like I can't be the only one who has to do this...