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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1690897"><p>Welcome to the forum. Your plan has a fatal flaw, I think, in that Yosemite is no longer available for download from Apple. Only El Capitan. </p><p></p><p>You can use TM for the backup or make a clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper!. Not a whole lot of difference, if the TM drive is directly attached to the MacBook, except that a full clone from CCC or SD! will be bootable and TM will not. A bootable backup is a nice insurance policy for anything that goes wrong.</p><p></p><p>Step 3 will leave you with an unbootable drive and no way to recover, so skip that step. Download the EL Cap installer, abort the install process and create the bootable USB stick or drive, then put in the new drive, boot from the USB stick and partition/format and install El Cap to the new drive.</p><p></p><p>When it boots the first time it will offer the option to migrate your data. Point to the backup drive and let it do its thing. When it's done, you'll be able to log in to the new machine with the exact same account as on the old. </p><p></p><p>If you only want "select" items, ignore that last step and tell it NOT to migrate, then create an account on the new system and go get the selected items and copy them to where you want them. This approach will probably require you to reinstall and reconfigure all the applications you had added to your system.</p><p></p><p>Remember, backup, backup, backup, before you start. </p><p></p><p>And if I were you I would wait a bit for more folks to chime in. They will have better ideas than mine, I'm sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1690897"] Welcome to the forum. Your plan has a fatal flaw, I think, in that Yosemite is no longer available for download from Apple. Only El Capitan. You can use TM for the backup or make a clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper!. Not a whole lot of difference, if the TM drive is directly attached to the MacBook, except that a full clone from CCC or SD! will be bootable and TM will not. A bootable backup is a nice insurance policy for anything that goes wrong. Step 3 will leave you with an unbootable drive and no way to recover, so skip that step. Download the EL Cap installer, abort the install process and create the bootable USB stick or drive, then put in the new drive, boot from the USB stick and partition/format and install El Cap to the new drive. When it boots the first time it will offer the option to migrate your data. Point to the backup drive and let it do its thing. When it's done, you'll be able to log in to the new machine with the exact same account as on the old. If you only want "select" items, ignore that last step and tell it NOT to migrate, then create an account on the new system and go get the selected items and copy them to where you want them. This approach will probably require you to reinstall and reconfigure all the applications you had added to your system. Remember, backup, backup, backup, before you start. And if I were you I would wait a bit for more folks to chime in. They will have better ideas than mine, I'm sure. [/QUOTE]
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