Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-31 Thread Phil Halton
@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:14 AM Subject: Re: Cloning one Mac onto another? Hi, if you have a timemachine backup, you can also use that. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-30 Thread Phil Halton
29, 2013 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Cloning one Mac onto another? Wonder if you can do the old 'target mode' thing on the MB Air (hold down T during startup) to make it into the world's most expensive external hard drive. Then connect it via USB to your old Mac and it should show up as a drive

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
No, target node does not work with USB, it might work with lightning though. Your next best alternative is too shutdown wireless on both systems and connect with a standard ethernet cable. Apple computers do not require a hub for wired connections. Best wishes, Jonathan Sent from my

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, As long as you have the Thunderbolt to Ethernet connector, you could simply use Migration Assistant to migrate everything exactly as is from your older Mac to the newer one. The Set-Up Assistant will guide you through this when you start up your new MBA. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-30 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, if you have a timemachine backup, you can also use that. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As long as you have the Thunderbolt to Ethernet connector, you

Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-29 Thread Phil Halton
Is there any reason why I couldn't transfer the bootable image of my late 2011 iMac onto my new, soon to arrive MBA? are these boot images (created with SuperDuper) hardware specific? I have the iMac setup the way I want it and, if possible, it would save alot of time and trouble setting up the

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-29 Thread Kliphton
Why not use time machine for this? I was able to install my iMac bought back in 2011 onto my 2013 mac mini with no issues at all! Kliphton (iMessage ) kliph...@icloud.com - (Email) kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter,instagram,foursquareSkype) kliphton72 [Text only] 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-read at

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-29 Thread Phil Halton
I've never used Time Machine before, I'll look into it. On 7/29/13, Kliphton kliph...@gmail.com wrote: Why not use time machine for this? I was able to install my iMac bought back in 2011 onto my 2013 mac mini with no issues at all! Kliphton (iMessage ) kliph...@icloud.com - (Email)

Re: Cloning one Mac onto another?

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Wonder if you can do the old 'target mode' thing on the MB Air (hold down T during startup) to make it into the world's most expensive external hard drive. Then connect it via USB to your old Mac and it should show up as a drive. Then you could use SuperDuper to clone your current drive onto