[craigthomas]

Hi, I'm migrating to a new 1Ghz Powerbook, that will hopefully be here next week, from a 800Mhz PB. I'm using 10.2.2 and would like to make the conversion as painless as possible.

I heard one post say that he used firewire target disk mode to transfer his "Users" file to the new computer. Another person simply draged his applications to the new computer in firewire target disk mode. Sounds nice and easy compared to starting from scratch.

My question: is this safe? And if it is safe, should I boot the new machine up in firewire target disk mode, then drag the Users file and all my applications to the new machine before turning it on as a normal computer?

[mitchell_pgh]

It's safe, but I would NEVER do it if I had the choice (if you pirated an application and don't have any installs, this becomes an issue). I like to clean install all of my applications on a clean OS (it takes a few more hours, but I feel that I have fewer issues with my system)

I'm always nervous that I missed something...