Timeline for How to migrate to a brand new Mac from a more-recently-updated Mac?
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 5:30 | comment | added | Trane Francks | I see. Well, that suggests that the original 'throw away' account install, update and subsequent profile migration is the way to go. Good confirmation. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 19:33 | comment | added | Trey | Just one small quibble, Trane: now that I have the procedure down pat, I decided to experiment. I did erase the disk, and still got 10.9.4. The Apple docs do say that the OS X version downloaded will be whatever was originally installed on the machine. It appears to me that either a) it really means the same version, down to point release; or b) at this moment (2014-10-01) they don't yet have 10.9.5 available on the servers. | |
| Sep 30, 2014 at 20:21 | comment | added | Trane Francks | It was very kind of you to accept my answer as correct, even in its incomplete state. I hope that it appears complete to you now, @Trey. I'm glad that you got it all sorted. | |
| Sep 30, 2014 at 20:20 | history | edited | Trane Francks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarifications to address OP's comments below.
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 20:14 | comment | added | Trane Francks | For Internet Recovery to start with a clean disk, you'd need to go into Disk Utility first and erase the volume to which you wish to restore; otherwise, it'll install on top of the existing installation rather than replace it. I'll update my answer accordingly so that others may benefit. | |
| Sep 30, 2014 at 17:08 | vote | accept | Trey | ||
| Sep 30, 2014 at 17:06 | comment | added | Trey | So it turns out that Internet Recovery installed 10.9.4. Even when I created a throwaway account and ran Software Update. (I'd hoped that Internet Recovery would have an option for me to wipe and go back to a pristine state, but no; the throwaway account was still there.) For future reference, when you run Migration Assistant—at least on a target and source machine each with a single account—it offers to entirely replace the throwaway account with the account on the source machine. So that's handy. | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 1:05 | history | edited | Trane Francks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2014 at 21:43 | history | answered | Trane Francks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |