Migration Assistant question re new 10.8 Mini set-up
Hi. I'm transitioning to a new Mac Mini quad i7 with 10.8 installed - replacing an older 5,1 IMac running SnowLeopard as
my primary recording studio machine.
I will keep the IMac as a backup with SL, but it had been glitchy on 10.6 with certain must-use audio/recording apps and
I debated and then decided to just run Migration Assistant from the IMac to the Mini. Question in retrospect is - could i be
bringing over any problems from the SL OS to the new Mini OS in choosing to go that route? There were a few odd anomalies
going on with the IMac randomly like finder crashes and some odd behavior with apps crashing. Still, manual migration would
be pretty time consuming and tedious and i figured i'd go for it with MA. I just wondered what the chances might be of any
problems that 'might' have been System related somehow getting transferred over to the Lion machine -- or would those just
be resolved by the fact that i'm running on an entirely new OS. ?
Also if i run into any peculiarities as far as certain items being locked with 'permissions' issues - is that just a simple matter of
tweaking everything to be Read-Write accessible by "Everyone" - it'd be nice if there was a universal way to apply that to every
folder and file on the entire computer - as i am the only one who needs to access it so the security thing is a non-issue in this
situation.
Thanks,
Mike
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)