Migrating documents to second Hard Drive

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Migrating documents to second Hard Drive

I bought a new internal hard drive and would like to keep the original drive as a start up drive with all the applications, and migrate all my documents to the new or second hard drive.

At first I thought it would be as simple as copying all the document folders over to the new hard drive. But, then I started wondering about folder structure and the user structure.

So, I'm wondering if there is a protocol for what I want to do? Maybe a link to instructions?

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mp

I'm running OSX 10.5.8 (Mac Pro)

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 15, 2011 11:11 AM

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Texas Mac Man

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Dec 15, 2011 11:37 AM in response to Marco_Polo

Not to worry. Just drag & drop the folders onto the new drive. Just as a precaution, select a few files with different apps & open the files to ensure they open. Then you can drag the corresponding folders on your old drive to the Trash. Shouldn't be a problem.

Do you have another HD, either internal or external, that you use to backup all your files? You should.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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BDAqua

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Dec 15, 2011 12:01 PM in response to Marco_Polo

If you have a lot of things in iTunes, see this...

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449

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