About Migration Assistant

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About Migration Assistant

I'm going to buy a new Macbook Pro.
I would like to transfert all my stuff by means of Migration Assistant but I wuold like to know if:
- this way of migration deletes data on older mac?
- is it possible to transfert documents or also programs?
- software like the cs5 duite of Adobe can be migrated with the Assistant?
- MS Office 2011 must be reinstalled or can be migrated with the Assistant?
- my older MacBook has a bootcamp partition: have I to reinstall it completely?

Thank you very much for attention

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), + MS Windows 7 on bootcamp partition

Posted on Mar 1, 2011 2:48 PM

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Pondini

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Mar 1, 2011 4:01 PM in response to Liùc

Liùc wrote:
I'm going to buy a new Macbook Pro.
I would like to transfert all my stuff by means of Migration Assistant

Hi, and welcome to the forums.

Your best bet, by far, is to use +Setup Assistant+ when the new one first starts up. See [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

but I wuold like to know if:
- this way of migration deletes data on older mac?

No.

- is it possible to transfert documents or also programs?

Yes, documents, user accounts, apps, pretty much everything.

- software like the cs5 duite of Adobe can be migrated with the Assistant?
- MS Office 2011 must be reinstalled or can be migrated with the Assistant?

I don't use either, so can't say for sure. Most apps will transfer ok, but some complex apps may not. See the pink *Transferring Applications* box in the +Setup Assistant+ link for details.

- my older MacBook has a bootcamp partition: have I to reinstall it completely?

Yes. +Setup Assistant+ and +Migration Assistant+ work on OSX only.

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