It's been discussed many times here Anne (sorry this is late, been out of town since last Thursday) It's impossible to move from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. If you try you will completely mess up the operating system.
The best way is to move all the data file, pictures, video's, iTunes Library but for applications move only those that are Mt. Lion compatible or download the particular Mt. Lion version. Going to the Time Capsule should be as simple as setting up the Extreme. You will have use Airport Utility to walk through the setup but that is easy as you know, give it a password tell System Preferences to use the Time Capsule for your Time Machine and it should be fine. It will take a long time to back up a bunch of data wirelessly so expect long delays getting your first complete backup. John On May 19, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > I have two iMacs (old and new) and am trying to get all my stuff onto my new > one. Since I previously moved stuff from old to new, but continued to work > mostly on old I need to move all stuff from ole to new. > > Old: 2.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo running Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) > New: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 running Mac OS X 10.8.3 (Puma aka Mountain Lion:) > > My plan: Set up new account on new machine. Use Migration Assistant to move > all from old to new account. > Then move photos from old account on new iMac to new account on iMac. After > this I plan on deleting the old account on the new iMac. > > It is the latter I don't know how to do. Actually not sure about the former > two steps but figure I should be able to figure them out. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance - before I screw up both machines. > > Second problem. > > I have Time Capsule (backup + wireless base station) and want to set it up. > Currently using Airport Extreme for my wireless onnection. If I just unhook > the Extreme and hook up the Capsule will I have immediate wireless connection > or will I have to make some settings somewhere? I don't want to lose the > wireless connection because then I won't be able to ask for help. > > I always prefer Apple because everything is so easy; however I am always very > tentative when making any major changes because I'm afraid I'll end up with > nothing working. > > Anne Cartwright > > P. S. I have everything backed up to external hard drives on both machines. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
