[BigCanoe]

I need some tips on how to move my mail, calendar, contacts, itunes, etc to my new machine, anyone have some pointers?

Thanks!

[jessejlt]

Create a share for your PB and mount the volume on your other rig.

iTunes: Drag and drop the library from the old machine to the new machine.

Mail: Setup your accounts the same. If you want to import some mailboxes, than do so. They're in your library.

Calendar: Same difference.

Blah blah blah. Just import it all man. Most can be dragged and dropped.
jesse ;-)

[BigCanoe]

What do you mean library, I am pretty clueless heh.

[jessejlt]

Originally posted by BigCanoe:
What do you mean library, I am pretty clueless heh.

Mail: File -> Import Mailboxes... -> Mail for Mac OS X

Calendar: home -> library -> Calendar
You can pretty much drag and drop the calendars in that folder from the source compy to your PB.

Contacts: OPen Address Book, goto File -> Import -> Vcards
Then just import from the source to the PB

It's all pretty no-brainer. Apple makes it fairly simple to do all the migrating. Once you get your PB and set it next to your source compy, it'll all start coming together.
jesse ;-)

[Spheric Harlot]

Easiest method is to boot up your NEW Powerbook in Firewire Target Disk Mode (start it up holding down the "T" key).

You can then hook it up to your old machine as an external Firewire disk.

Copy over your entire contents of your home folder (/Users/yourname/) and whatever is in the /Applications folder that you installed yourself.

(If you want to be thorough, you can also copy over much of /Library for stuff like network settings, certain third-party hardware drivers, etc. If you don't mind entering those system settings over, don't bother with this one. You will probably have to re-install some applications, though, as some place support files in this folder.)

Drag the new machine's hard drive icon to the trash. Disconnect it.

Restart the new machine and once it's done, IMMEDIATELY open Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities) and repair permissions.

Done.

This will work with any new Mac, laptop or desktop, since they can all boot into target disk mode.

-s*

[skybolt]

Totally concur with Spheric Harlot! Just did this on my new 'book and it worked like a charm! I did not copy over my users folder as a whole. For one thing, I wanted to change the name. But I did copy over each folder within my users folder individually, and, I think, my keychain and some preferences. New machine was perfect! Good luck!

[Synotic]

Originally posted by skybolt:
Totally concur with Spheric Harlot! Just did this on my new 'book and it worked like a charm! I did not copy over my users folder as a whole. For one thing, I wanted to change the name. But I did copy over each folder within my users folder individually, and, I think, my keychain and some preferences. New machine was perfect! Good luck!

That's what he meant by "contents" You can just select all of the folders at once and drag them or do command-a and then drag them into the new Users folder instead of dragging them individually btw.

[Spheric Harlot]

We have an understanding.

-s*

[carney]

Just did this recently myself too. I didn't want my whole user folder, so I did it piece by piece. I second the advice here and just to clarify, have a look in your apple help at this:

Using your keychain on a different computer

Everything else is really straightforward drag and drop.

[typoon]

If you have .Mac you can just sync it with iSync. Then there is no need to look for all that stuff.

Or use backup and restore to your powerbook

[jimf_81]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Easiest method is to boot up your NEW Powerbook in Firewire Target Disk Mode (start it up holding down the "T" key).

-s*

That's a handy little trick I was not aware of. Thanks.

[typoon]

Originally posted by jimf_81:
That's a handy little trick I was not aware of. Thanks.

Hate to Say it but RTFM. I actually went through mine for my POwerbook this weekend just skimmed it to see if there was something I didn't know about plus I wanted to find out about plugging in to a larger monitor.

[sktrdie]

backup to external HD!
or to cds...
easiest way

[typoon]

Originally posted by sktrdie:
backup to external HD!
or to cds...
easiest way

I'm going to have to disagree. Use .Mac and iSync and Backup and then just restore everything. No need to to find which are the correct files to move for Mail and the like. Just check it and the backup will back it up for you. It also saves the Keychains as well. Then iSync and get back all your addresses, bookmarks and iCal stuff.