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Right now I have a Mac Mini. I migrated macbook pro data from a time machine, but I didn't do it from the beginning of my startup. I used the migration assistance to migrate the data. However, I'm ...
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Moving from Snow Leopard directly to Mountain Lion with Time Machine
First time I've asked a question here but I've used Stack Exchange for answers to many many OSX questions so, first off, great big thanks for that.
I searched the archives but didn't find an answer ...
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How can I restore my system, using Snow Leopard, after hard-drive replacement?
I had a nearly full 500GB drive in my MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard. As the near-full capacity was becoming problematic, I bought two 1TB drives, went home, ran Time Machine on one of them, and ...
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Moving individual specific applications from Leopard to Mountain Lion
I'm moving from an old 2007 MBP running Leopard OS X 10.5.8 to a new MBP running OS X 10.8.2 and I want to keep the new system as clean as possible.
Therefore, I chose not to use the Migration ...
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Time machine backup/restore: “This user's data doesn't need to be transferred”
So, I had a MacBook Pro 15", Late 2011, that I've been using daily since I got it last October. I set up time machine and every day after work, I would bring my laptop home and plug it into my time ...
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Renaming “A's MacBook” to “C's MacBook”
I see that my Mac is called "A's MacBook" on the network.
How do I rename it (i.e., change the hostname) to "C's MacBook"?
That's the question. Here are the details:
Having read various suggestions ...
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Files on new computer are locked after using Migration Assistant and Time Machine
I have an MacBook with OSX and backed up everything in a Time Capsule with Time Machine. Now I bought a MacBook Pro with Lionn and then migrated everything from the old computer to the new using ...
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How to coerce Lion Time Machine into offering backup history migration?
This article describes a feature I heard about from multiple sources about an automagic backup migration process that Lion will do for you. Essentially, when migrating to a new machine, you can ...
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How can I relocate an iTunes library from a Time Machine backup?
I have used Setup Assistant from my last Time Capsule backup on my old iMac to start my new iMac. The new iMac has a 256 GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD. The old iMac had a nearly full 1 TB HDD.
This means ...
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Migration Assistant fails to recognize a Time Machine disk (itself migrated using Disk Utility)
So I outgrow my Time Machine disk. I listen to the advice (repeated in multiple places) that one can simply use Disk Utility's Restore tab, select the old time machine disk as source and the new one ...
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Should I use time machine to migrate from one mac to another?
I have had my blackbook for a little over 4 years now and think it's time to upgrade to a new macbook pro. I'm currently running leopard on the blackbook with time machine. I'm wondering if time ...
