Comments on: How to Transfer Mac OS X Application Data between Computers

By: Paint Bull

Paint Bull — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:17:02 +0000

I’ve been searching for this exact information on this topic for a long time.

By: bru

bru — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:06:28 +0000

How do I Just transfer microsoft word or powerpoint?

By: Tom Doran

Tom Doran — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:32 +0000

Fantastic! Thank you for a concise way to rebuild Mail on my new machine. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

By: brena

brena — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:02:47 +0000

I used a firewire to connect the imac to my macbook pro. I held down the “t’ key and all went well until it was time to unplug. I can’t get my imac to start back up. It turns on and turns right back off. It only stays on when the “t” key has been pressed down but I don’t need to transfer anymore. How do I get my imac to start up?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:23:35 +0000

Thanks for this blog post. It saved my digital life when my PowerBook’s hard disk died. Luckily I could still mount it via FireWire target mode on a spare Mac I found in my basement. At first I tried the Migration Assistant which could not copy all necessary stuff resulting in a failure of the whole procedure. Then I followed your advice of manually copying certain stuff and ran the chown command afterwards (found in the comments) because otherwise not all applications would start or look like I was used to.

Now I’m back in my digital life and will use the Time Machine function of my new OS (was on 10.4 w/o backups before), promised! I learned my lesson.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:22:54 +0000

Please add Stickies

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By: Migrating to new machine, best practise? - MacTalk Forums

Migrating to new machine, best practise? - MacTalk Forums — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:53:36 +0000

[...] mac, but I’ve never had to migrate machines, so I’m a bit lost on the best way. found this link. How to transfer applications __________________ Current: MBP 13" 2.2, Powerbook G4 12" 1.5, Ibook G4 12" 800, [...]

By: David W

David W — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:08:27 +0000

You make the simple sound so complex. Create a junk administrator account on the new Mac, along with an account with your old username, then log in as the junk administrator, and sudo’d up to root:

root@newmac# OLDMAC=192.168.1.1 root@newmac# rsync -av --progress $OLDMAC:/Users/youraccount /Users [enter your password] [wait several hours] root@newmac# chown -R youraccount /Users/youraccount


Log out and back in as youraccount, and delete the junk account.

The only thing I've never tried is changing username, but in general moving your entire profile around from Mac to Mac is incredibly simple.