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? Re: transferring data from old mac hard drive to new one
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1765655" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>I should mention that when you transfer an entire system's worth of data using Migration Assistant it can take literally hours. My recent transfer took something on the order of 10+ hours if you transfer everything. It will let you choose to transfer only certain things. </p><p></p><p>What version of OS X is on the hard drive that you will be copying the data from? If it is recent enough to be able to boot the new system it might be faster to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to "clone" things from the old hard drive to the new machine. It will also let you choose only certain things to copy.</p><p></p><p>Either way it could take quite some time to transfer an entire system's worth of data / applications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1765655, member: 131855"] I should mention that when you transfer an entire system's worth of data using Migration Assistant it can take literally hours. My recent transfer took something on the order of 10+ hours if you transfer everything. It will let you choose to transfer only certain things. What version of OS X is on the hard drive that you will be copying the data from? If it is recent enough to be able to boot the new system it might be faster to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to "clone" things from the old hard drive to the new machine. It will also let you choose only certain things to copy. Either way it could take quite some time to transfer an entire system's worth of data / applications. [/QUOTE]
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