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Dioneda · Jul 1, 2004, 02:08 PM

I have two pre June 9 G5 and recently bought a new post G5 with Setup Assistant. I would like to copy the Setup Assistant from the utilities folder to one of the pre G5s and then copy data from the other pre G5 to the pre G5 w/ setup Setup Assistant. I have already attempted this and when I launch the Setup Assistant it logs me out and runs through the first initial setup, user name, password, internet setup, etc. After that it takes me back to the login with a new user that i just created but no window or prompt to transfer files. Simply put it just created a new user.

Please help!

reader50 · Jul 1, 2004, 02:25 PM

I'm not sure what you are trying to do here. Are you trying to duplicate all your settings and preferences from one G5 to the other?

Dioneda · Jul 1, 2004, 02:51 PM

Originally posted by reader50:
I'm not sure what you are trying to do here. Are you trying to duplicate all your settings and preferences from one G5 to the other?

yes!

I have 4 user accounts on one of the pre-G5s and I would like to transfer one of the acounts over to the other pre-G5.

reader50 · Jul 1, 2004, 03:53 PM

Install TinkerTool and/or OnyX on the machine you want to copy to. Either utility will allow you to make all files visible in the Finder, including invisible files, which you will need in order to copy all the user's files.

Next, create a user on the target Mac with the same name/pass as the user you plan to migrate. You have probably already done this.

Log in as that user, then mount the old computer in FireWire Target Disk Mode. Get Info on that volume and set it to ignore permissions on that volume.

Copy the contents of each subfolder in the old home folder into your new home subfolders. Some of the old files will replace existing files. By copying the files in as that user, all the files will arrive owned by the new user. This may take a little time if the user has a ton of stuff across many folders.

Afterwards, boot from the OS X Install CD and do a repair permissions on the volume, in case some of the replaced files needed special settings (like the user's keychain).

There are no doubt simpler ways to do this.