My wife and I have seperate macbooks. Her's is old and mine is newer. Nevertheless, I would like to take her user profile, settings, mail, files, etc. and move them to a new user on my macbook. What is the best way to do this? Migration Assistant?
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stephenmartin0084 wrote:
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What is the best way to do this? Migration Assistant?
Yup. 😉 That's exactly what it's for. See either Using Migration Assistant on Lion or Using Migration Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard.
stephenmartin0084 wrote:
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What is the best way to do this? Migration Assistant?
Yup. 😉 That's exactly what it's for. See either Using Migration Assistant on Lion or Using Migration Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard.
Thanks for the advice. I did this and after 2 hours it still says "less than a minute remaining". Any advice?
Quit Migration Assistant. See if the account was transferred properly.
Did you also transfer apps? If so, the problem may have been with the "files supporting applications."
Not sure to tell you the truth. I selected everything so I'm assuming it is. I also forgot to set the laptops not to sleep. I canceled it and set the sleep to never. Trying it again now.
stephenmartin0084 wrote:
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I selected everything so I'm assuming it is.
Yes, it's selected by default -- so you'd have to un-check the box to omit.
I also forgot to set the laptops not to sleep. I canceled it and set the sleep to never. Trying it again now.
There may be partial user(s) and home folder(s) -- if so, you'll get a window with some options about what to do about it.
Thanks to both, got all my wife's information transfered. Quick question though, is there a way that both users will see and use the same iPhoto without having two seperate databases? We have a huge library and to have two librarys would take up a huge chuck of my hard drive space. I'd like to have one and delete the other. Help please.
stephenmartin0084 wrote:
Thanks to both, got all my wife's information transfered.
Yay!
Quick question though, is there a way that both users will see and use the same iPhoto without having two seperate databases?
Yup. See iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users. There are two methods there, each with advantages and disadvantages. It sounds like you probably want to use the second one, for a disk image.
@Pondini, Thanks for the information! I'll look into it!!
Your original question was, "When I create the disk image can I add to it or do I have to set up or allocate a certain amount of size?"
A sparse disk image, as recommended in the Apple article, does allocate the entire size you specify (so it may take a while to create, copy, or move a large one). Most of it is empty at first, of course. When it's full, you can't add anymore without changing the size.
A sparse bundle disk image, however, sets only a maximum size. The actual size grows as you add stuff. Again, when full, you can change the maximum size.
If you use Time Machine to back up, you probably want to use the sparse bundle disk image. See the tan box in #D8 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting for an explanation.
If you use a "cloning" app, such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper for backups, it really won't make a lot of difference which you use. Since you probably don't back up more than once a day, backing-up an entire sparse disk image won't make much difference.
Moving from old computer to new
