Time Machine and Setup Assistant

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Time Machine and Setup Assistant

my main computer is a macbook pro running 10.5.8 and for which i use a lacie usb drive as a time machine for backups.

i've just bought a new iMac, which will presumably be on 10.6.4 when it arrives here.

can i use the time machine backup of my MBP with setup assistant to transfer all of my files, applications etc tot he new iMac ? is there any problem with using a MBP back up to transfer to iMac ?

thanks

Message was edited by: Mark Webber

MBP 15" 2.5GHz MBA 2.13GHz SSD, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iLife 7, QT Player 7.5, Office 2004

Posted on Aug 25, 2010 4:21 AM

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macjack

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Aug 25, 2010 4:32 AM in response to Mark Webber

Yes, it's all fine. Do it the first time you boot your new iMac in Setup Assistant. The assistant will ask you to choose a disk to transfer from and you will choose, "Time Machine".

Enjoy your new iMac 🙂

-mj

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Pondini

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Aug 25, 2010 7:50 AM in response to Mark Webber

As MacJack says, it will work just fine -- its been greatly improved in Snow Leopard. See #19 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for details.

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Mark Webber Author

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Aug 27, 2010 4:38 AM in response to Pondini

i've done this now but having a few teething problems, which i remember also happened when i set up my MBA, though i can't remember how i resolved them.

the new iMac seems to "think" its my MBP (the computer whose backup was used to import data). for example - in the list of shared computers on the iMac, my MBA is now listed as MBP (2) and on the MBP, the iMac is listed as MBP.

do i need to fix some permissions somewhere ?

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Pondini

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Aug 27, 2010 7:58 AM in response to Mark Webber

Mark Webber wrote:
. . .
do i need to fix some permissions somewhere ?

Nope. Just go to +System Preferences > Sharing+ and change the name.

(I guess I should mention that in the article.) 🙂

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Mark Webber Author

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Aug 27, 2010 8:52 AM in response to Mark Webber

thanks.

going slightly off topic now, but i did ask this question in another thread weeks ago and got no replies, so i hope you might indulge me ...

i'm now connected over the network to the new iMac and i can screen share, but i can't browse through the iMac folders in the MBP finder the same way as i can with the old G4 OS 10.3.8 which is also on the network. the iMac drives don't mount the same way & this is also a problem btw the MBP and MBA. is there a way to fix this ?

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