Timeline for How to migrate to a brand new Mac from a more-recently-updated Mac?
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Sep 30, 2014 at 17:08 | vote | accept | Trey | ||
Sep 29, 2014 at 6:43 | comment | added | Trane Francks | @Trey: Once you've got Mavericks installed at 10.9.5, you should then be able to use the profile migration option as a part of finalizing the installation. Best of luck with it. | |
Sep 29, 2014 at 5:49 | comment | added | Trey | @TraneFrancks Thanks, I'll give the Internet Recovery a try. | |
Sep 29, 2014 at 5:49 | comment | added | Trey | @Buscar웃 The old is 10.9.5, the new is 10.9.4. How does that change your answer? | |
Sep 29, 2014 at 1:05 | comment | added | Trane Francks | @Trey, see my updated answer for an alternative approach. | |
Sep 29, 2014 at 0:28 | comment | added | Ruskes | I still do not know what is the OS X Version on the OLD computer ?? You can look that up! | |
Sep 28, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | Trey | @Buscar웃 Right, but what does "look it up and update the new Mac" mean? I rebooted with Command-R to get into reinstall mode and reinstalled Mavericks, but it still was 10.9.4. How do I update the Mac when it's still in pristine startup mode w/o users? Trane below suggests creating a throwaway user for the purpose, but when I tried to do that it wanted my Apple ID and said "warning: this will download software and associate it to this hardware". I didn't want that to happen for a user account I was just going to blow away! So I rebooted at that point and reinstalled again. | |
Sep 28, 2014 at 22:33 | comment | added | Ruskes | I would read: the old Mac has a newer version of Mavericks (probably 10.9.5) the your New mac that might have the 10.9.1 when it was shipped or something, so look it up and update the new Mac. | |
Sep 28, 2014 at 21:43 | answer | added | Trane Francks | timeline score: 1 | |
Sep 28, 2014 at 19:45 | history | asked | Trey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |