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Start-Up Problems With My Ancient iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1795772" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>+1 for what Patrick suggested. If you do NOT take the first opportunity to migrate the data, the migration gets more complicated. If you migrate at the FIRST opportunity to do so, you will find when it is done that there is a new account exactly like your account on the old machine, with everything where it was on the old account. If you don't take the opportunity, the next thing you will do will be to create a new account, but after that, if you use MA, it will NOT migrate into that account, but create a new one. And if you use the same name for the new account, the one MA will create will be some random name. Where it gets complicated is that the files migrated into that NEW account name will not belong to you and you will have to do some work to get them over to your account and to give yourself access to them.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line, use MA early and avoid the hassle. Once the migration is done, the drive you used on the old can be repurposed to be the backup drive on the new. You do know you really, really should back up, right? There are only two types of people in the world: Those whose drives have failed and those whose drives will fail. Before you move from the latter to the former, get a backup in place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1795772, member: 396914"] +1 for what Patrick suggested. If you do NOT take the first opportunity to migrate the data, the migration gets more complicated. If you migrate at the FIRST opportunity to do so, you will find when it is done that there is a new account exactly like your account on the old machine, with everything where it was on the old account. If you don't take the opportunity, the next thing you will do will be to create a new account, but after that, if you use MA, it will NOT migrate into that account, but create a new one. And if you use the same name for the new account, the one MA will create will be some random name. Where it gets complicated is that the files migrated into that NEW account name will not belong to you and you will have to do some work to get them over to your account and to give yourself access to them. Bottom line, use MA early and avoid the hassle. Once the migration is done, the drive you used on the old can be repurposed to be the backup drive on the new. You do know you really, really should back up, right? There are only two types of people in the world: Those whose drives have failed and those whose drives will fail. Before you move from the latter to the former, get a backup in place. [/QUOTE]
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