Timeline for Recovering all my old settings, apps etc ... from removed hard drive
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| Feb 26, 2012 at 21:46 | vote | accept | noelmcg | ||
| Feb 24, 2012 at 9:40 | answer | added | noelmcg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 9:35 | comment | added | noelmcg | @bmike I tried migrating as you suggested but again it did not work. I have added my solution below. | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 18:24 | comment | added | noelmcg | Will do, cheers for your assistance @bmike. Will try the clean install and answer this question myself. | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 18:17 | history | edited | bmike♦ |
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| Feb 22, 2012 at 18:17 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Let's close this off as we have an answer (or shelve it). Migration didn't go well since you installed onto an account that was updated. You can answer this yourself and select your answer. Then you can ask a more detailed question specifying all we mentioned here and I'll watch for it and offer an answer there. I'll delete this comment once you make a second question or edit this into the new question... | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 18:12 | comment | added | noelmcg | Yep, i can definitely afford to lose all that is on the current drive. Will I run into problems as the 'old drive' is 10.6.8 and the new drive will be 10.6? | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 17:52 | comment | added | bmike♦ | If you can afford to lose all that is on the current drive, yes. If not, I've had good success installing SL onto a spare external drive and migrating things from the backup to the mac when booted to the newly installed image on an external drive. From there, you can usually start up Time Machine and migrate things with more time available. | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 17:26 | comment | added | noelmcg | I did it on top of a system that had a user account setup. Shall i re-install snow leopard? | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 17:23 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Did you run Migration Assistant on a blank new install of Snow Leopard or perhaps was it on top of a system that already had an account set up? The former is the best solution for getting everything back perfectly since the software doesn't have to pick between the new setting and the old setting if they conflict. | |
| Feb 22, 2012 at 17:13 | history | asked | noelmcg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |