On 2/12/10 1:33 PM, Eric Volker wrote:
Is it possible to migrate a user account, desktop and apps from an Intel iMac with Snow Leopard to a Powermac G5 with Leopard (I'll explain that in a bit.) Is it possible to use some combination of Migration Assistant, Time Machine and/or Carbon Copy Cloner to move the user account and apps from a 10.6 to a 10.5 machine?
I think you can use Migration Assistant to do this. I've only used it once so I'm not all that familiar with it.
What I've done in the past is I create the user account, copy the entire user folder over to the new account and then move the various pieces into place. This has always worked well for me but I was always moving forward in OS versions. The problem I can see is that an application preference from a newer version may not work with an older application. It's a case of trial and error. I think most applications would flag an error. If that happens remove the preference file (I would store it in a temporary folder, just in case) and let the app recreate it's preference file. The same holds true for the various system related user preferences (dock, finder, etc.).
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