Goals | Learn how easy it is to move all or selected files from an old Mac running a previous version of OS X to a new Mac running Tiger. |
Some of us buy new Macs regularly. It's exciting to buy a new Mac the first couple of times, but now many of us dread the process. It takes so much time to get gigabytes of files from one Mac to the other, reinstall so many applications (and then discover that you have to go download the application updates and reinstall those!), dig up your old printer disks so you can install the drivers, get all your system preferences set up all over again, and make all your extra users all over again. And invariably you remember some software application on the old Mac that you downloaded but never made a backup of its installer, or fonts you downloaded but have no copy on disk.
Well, Apple has solved most of that headache with its
migrate feature: Connect the old and the new Macs with a FireWire cable and the Migration Assistant will get the files and applications you need from the old Mac and transfer them to the new one in exactly the folders they're supposed to be in.