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Using Time Machine to set up new iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1803002" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>One caution on transferring over data. At the first boot of the new machine, there will be a prompt to migrate data. This prompt comes very early in the start up process, before the setting up of any accounts. The best way to migrate is to take that offer and let Migration Assistant do the migration for you. When it's done, there will be an account on your new iMac with exactly the same login and password as on the old one, with all of your data transferred and exactly where it was on the old. </p><p></p><p>If you don't take Migration Assistant at that time, but go ahead on the new iMac and create an account, even if it's the same name as on the old machine, when you do migrate the data it will NOT end up in the new account area, but in a newly created user area. (It's part of security, technically the new account does not own the old data.) Moving it is tricky and time consuming, although it can be done. It's much easier to just do it at the first offer and let it do what it does to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1803002, member: 396914"] One caution on transferring over data. At the first boot of the new machine, there will be a prompt to migrate data. This prompt comes very early in the start up process, before the setting up of any accounts. The best way to migrate is to take that offer and let Migration Assistant do the migration for you. When it's done, there will be an account on your new iMac with exactly the same login and password as on the old one, with all of your data transferred and exactly where it was on the old. If you don't take Migration Assistant at that time, but go ahead on the new iMac and create an account, even if it's the same name as on the old machine, when you do migrate the data it will NOT end up in the new account area, but in a newly created user area. (It's part of security, technically the new account does not own the old data.) Moving it is tricky and time consuming, although it can be done. It's much easier to just do it at the first offer and let it do what it does to help. [/QUOTE]
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