Yes Peter, that's the best way to do in my recent experience, but really do make sure you do a full backup first. I used Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/ to make a bootable backup on an external drive as well, so if all goes crooked, you can start again.
Good luck with the migration, and enjoy the new computer, Reg On 14/03/2013, at 7:52 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, I went out and bought my wife an new MB Pro - 13" non-retina model > this eve. She has the need for mail and web browsing and not much else, maybe > iphoto and itunes. > > I need to migrate her 2009 Macbook data to this new one. I know of Migration > Assistant but haven't used it. > > Is this the way I should move the data between machines or is there another > way. > > Let me know if this is the way I should do it? > > I'll have a look at the Apple site, I am sure it will give the step by step > instructions. > > Regards > > Pete. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130314/4a36f0d2/attachment.htm > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130314/53d6c227/attachment.htm -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
