RE: Migration assistant question

August 2017 10:29 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Migration assistant question Hey Simon, Nice try on scoring my MBP! lol I didn't have to do anything with target disk mode. Just needed some sighted assistance to get away from a window that was blocking things. Thanks

Re: Migration assistant question

Hey Simon, Nice try on scoring my MBP! lol I didn't have to do anything with target disk mode. Just needed some sighted assistance to get away from a window that was blocking things. Thanks, though. Cheers, Donna > On Aug 28, 2017, at 1:59 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > >

RE: Migration assistant question

Hi Donna, Have you got your old mac book in target disk mode? I assume you are using some cable type be it network or thunderbolt or are you using wifi? The last time I did a migration it required the older machine to be in target disk mode which is a case of turning the machine completely

Re: Migration assistant question

OK, for the moment we seem to have lift off. There was a hidden dialogue, and I needed to get my husband to access it. , Thanks Donna Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 27, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to migrate content from my old Mac to

Re: Migration assistant question

Hi Mark, I may soon be having to use the migration assistant so I was very interested in your experience of having done so. Can you outline the steps required to connect thee two macs via ethernet cable? I have a notion that one of them has to be started in a particular mode. Is this true?

Re: Migration assistant question

Hi, Both methods will work fine. Whether you use Migration Assistant or an up-to-date Time Machine backup. If you are setting up a new computer and you have the up-to-date Time Machine backup, the new computer will end up exactly the same as the old one including all files and settings.

RE: Migration assistant question

Hello Lisette, I have never made nor used any time machine backups so cannot speak to how it works. However, when I purchased my new Mac, a couple of months ago, I simply connected it to my old Mac and the migration assistant worked perfectly, the first time. Since then I have used the