Hi Steven, Two things:
First - back-ups: You already have a time machine backup of your old Mac book Pro. You don't say if you also have a back-up of the current Macbook set-up. If not - do that first! That way you have a back-up of everything (old machine & new machine) if anything goes wrong! If your Time capsule has enough space on it, you can use it as a Time machine back-up and back-up your new Macbook - it won't overwrite the Time machine back-up for the Macbook Pro it will just create a separate folder for the new computer and back-it up. The other thing you could do is use superduper to clone the current Macbook set-up - ideally to a spare firewire drive, if you have one lying around :) if not you should be able to clone it to disk image on the Time capsule - again this is subject to available space, but since your Time capsule is at least 500GB and your laptops only have 160GB drives, I'm guessing you have a bit of free space. Next: You have a number of options to get your repaired Macbook Pro up to speed. My preferred option would be a clean install on the repaired Macbook pro and then migrate everything over from the current Macbook. You say you don't want to do this because you don't have the original install discs - have you tried using the install discs that came with the new Macbook - typically they only work with the same model but I'm not sure how Apple differentiates this - for example the install discs from an iMac won't work with a Macbook but I don't know if the Macbook/Macbook Pro are different - you could try it in my experience it will either work or say something like "this software cannot be installed on this computer". Kyles suggestion of cloning the drive over would be my preferred option if the two machines were identical - I have never tried it between two different models. It would not be an option if say one was intel and the other was a G5. Assuming the are both intel machines, I would try and confirm with someone that they had done this before on two comparable machines - if so -go for it. If you were able to clone the new system to an external firewire drive, just try and boot from it - if it boots up and all works OK you should be able to just clone it to the Macbook Pro. You don't say in what state the old Macbook pro is in - was it returned with the disc as per your original set-up or is it wiped clean.. The above approaches will work anyway. Bob's suggestion assumes that your disc is as the original set-up. I would also repeat his caution about trying it with your discs being so full - I have found in this case you have problems with superduper not having enough space to shuffle things around as it updates. Also how many user accounts do you have. The first thing I do is set up my initial account as Admin and get the computer up to speed (updates etc) then setup my user account. With this setup I would login to the old machine as admin and delete the user account, then migrate the user account over from the new machine. However, you can't do this if you only have one account or need to migrate them all. Also a word of caution with multiple users and migrating - this should not be a problem if you do it when setting up a machine. However if you migrate users over later you can end up with accounts with the same names and different ID numbers and permissions nightmares (a bad thing!). Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/10/08 2:29 PM, Steven Knowles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I usually use a MacBook Pro (MBP). However a month or so ago, my logic > board blew up, so it had to go in for repair. > > Not being able to access the content on my MBP would have been a > disaster. Fortunately I use Time Capsule / Time Machine, and so I had > to go and buy a new MacBook (MB) and restore my system from Time > Capsule. > > Now I have my MBP back. The data is as it was at the point the logic > board blew up, ie. outdated. What I want to do is put my system as it > is now on my MB (current) on to the MBP. > > What I don't want to do though is have to reinstall the entire system > (MacOSX) on my MBP because I don't have the original install disks for > another week, and ideally I need to do this today. > > What's the safest, cleanest, quickest and best way to do this? I have > a firewire cable handy so that I can connect the MB & MBP if I need > to. The disk on each is about 160Gb but with only 10Gb room left. > > I thought that should be a way of syncing the MBP with the TIme > Capsule (which is currently back up by with MB data), but I'm afraid > that what would happen is that the Time Capsule data would be > overwritten by the month old MBP data. > > Grateful for any tips. > > Cheers, Steven > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
