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I have been searching for an easy way to migrate from my old iMac to my new MB. Migration Assistant is not available for my iMac. I do have an external backup drive (250GB) that has a mirror of my iMac HD (13GB) and other files in a separate partition. I still have OS 9.x and apps that I will not migrate. I am thinking I need to hook up my external drive to the MB and move my HOME to the new MB and then select the other partition and put that on the MB HD. I can then reformat my external drive to a single partition and have that as my new backup drive. What am I missing?
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You run the Migration Assistant from the MacBook, not the iMac, and with the Leopard "Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update." you should be able to migrate over an ethernet cable, no firewire needed.
Leopard doesn't run OS 9 Classic anyway, so you're OS 9 apps won't be any use on the MacBook
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Originally Posted by ajprice 
You run the Migration Assistant from the Macbook, not the iMac, and with the Leopard "Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update." you should be able to migrate over an ethernet cable, no firewire needed.
No, he can't run Migration Assistant, as stated he's running OS 9 on the iMac.
He's right, he needs to hook up an external drive and move things over.
(I also think the original poster is crazy for still using OS 9 in this day and age.  )
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Actually, if I'm reading his post correctly, he's running 10.3.9 on the iMac, but intends not to migrate his OS 9 stuff since Classic won't work on the MacBook. Given this, I think the easiest thing to do would be just to run a FireWire cable from the MacBook to the iMac, start up the iMac while holding down the "T" key, run Migration Assistant on the MacBook, and then just trash the Classic stuff after the move.
edit: oh ****, it's a new MacBook... I misread the OP too.
(Last edited by CharlesS; Nov 2, 2008 at 05:02 PM.
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The iMac is running 10.3.9. On the MB I run Migration Assistant it asks if I want to transfer info from another Mac. It then tells me to go to the iMac Applicaitons/Utilities and to selett "To another Mac." And then to enter a passcode. Well as I said on 10.3.9 there is not an instance of Migration Assistant in Utilities.
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Crap, sorry about that. For some reason I thought I read in your post that you had a plastic MacBook instead of the new aluminum one. If you do indeed have the low-end plastic one, just plug a FireWire cable into the iMac, plug the other end of the FW cable into the MacBook, and start up the iMac with the T key down - it won't matter whether the iMac has Migration Assistant or not. If you have the aluminum MacBook, you don't have a FireWire port, and this is trickier.
Perhaps you could go to the iMac's Network preference pane and turn on File Sharing? I haven't tried this with Migration Assistant, though, so I don't know if it will be able to see it or not.
I suppose if all else fails, you could just drag the stuff over manually from the external hard drive backup.
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My external drive is connected to the iMac via Firewire. It does have a 2.0 USB connection. I have in fact connected the drive to the new Aluminum MB and saw both partitions of the drive. As I said I think if I just take the HOME icon from the mirror partition and drag it to the MB HD I hope it copies over all that I am currently using. Does that make sense?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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It will copy your old files to your new drive, but it won't magically transform an OS 9 account into an OS X account.
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I don't want the OS 9 stuff. I want my Panther mail/contacts and other applications to be moved over to the new MB.
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Originally Posted by stormyday
My external drive is connected to the iMac via Firewire. It does have a 2.0 USB connection. I have in fact connected the drive to the new Aluminum MB and saw both partitions of the drive. As I said I think if I just take the HOME icon from the mirror partition and drag it to the MB HD I hope it copies over all that I am currently using. Does that make sense?
Yeah, if you move over your home directory, you'll get all your settings, mail, address book, etc. from the old machine moved over to the new one.
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Originally Posted by stormyday
I don't want the OS 9 stuff. I want my Panther mail/contacts and other applications to be moved over to the new MB.
Oh, I'm sorry I misunderstood. Now due to the high likelihood that your old home folder has a lot of cruft (bad application support and preferences files) generated throughout many years of use, you may want to manually take your documents and important application support files over to a new home folder. Or you may just want to trust what you have and use the Migration Assistant or just manually copying the Home folder. If things don't work out afterward, you can just erase and reinstall and then figure out a better way to transfer things over.
(Last edited by Big Mac; Nov 2, 2008 at 06:54 PM.
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Why can't he just go over an Ethernet port again?
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Because you apparently need to have Migration Assistant on both ends for that, and his 10.3.9 system doesn't have it.
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