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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1291948" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Personally, I always recommend using Time Machine when moving from one Mac to another. The migration assistant works well but it does have a few things about it that seem to confuse folks.</p><p></p><p>As far as starting over, I'm not sure you can do that because you restored to a new account on the iMac and then copied everything over to your old account. As long as the iMac has all your data from the MBP, I would leave well enough alone. Unless you're missing some important data from the TM backup from the MBP, trying to restore again may overwrite what's already there on the iMac.</p><p></p><p>It's probably best to wipe the external drive and start the backups all over again. I had to do that very same thing when I migrated from my older MacBook to a new iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1291948, member: 46727"] Personally, I always recommend using Time Machine when moving from one Mac to another. The migration assistant works well but it does have a few things about it that seem to confuse folks. As far as starting over, I'm not sure you can do that because you restored to a new account on the iMac and then copied everything over to your old account. As long as the iMac has all your data from the MBP, I would leave well enough alone. Unless you're missing some important data from the TM backup from the MBP, trying to restore again may overwrite what's already there on the iMac. It's probably best to wipe the external drive and start the backups all over again. I had to do that very same thing when I migrated from my older MacBook to a new iMac. [/QUOTE]
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