Moving the contents of two old Macs into one new Mac...

[Hidden Driveways]

Carbon Copy is ok. I personally use Super Duper for my bootable drives (got a purchased copy - the best money ever spent) 2c.
-Pasha

Thanks. I will consider this.

I started the manual move in last night and it feels really good so far. In my old Macs I have these folders with way too much stuff in them. Now I'm making folders with names like:
Ableton - Voice Overs
Ableton - Other Bands
Ableton - Scraps/Ideas

I'm organizing lots of graphic design stuff into different folders:
Graphics - 1st CD
Graphics - Work Related

And so on and so forth. Feels soooooo good.

[steko]

One more thing: Before using CCCloner, you should add your empty external (or the backup partition on your external) to Spotlight's privacy list (System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy) to avoid slowing down backups by Spotlight indexing @ same time. Usually you don't want your backups indexed - you would get double hits in Spotlight, when external is connected.


@ Subfunk: with Migration Assistant you have the choice to move over "Applications", "files and folders", or your Library folder. If selected AFAIK everything inside gets moved over (not intelligent) . On Time Machine, some stuff like most caches, logs, trash, etc. is automatically excluded.

[SubFunk]

One more thing: Before using CCCloner, you should add your empty external (or the backup partition on your external) to Spotlight's privacy list (System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy) to avoid slowing down backups by Spotlight indexing @ same time. Usually you don't want your backups indexed - you would get double hits in Spotlight, when external is connected.


@ Subfunk: with Migration Assistant you have the choice to move over "Applications", "files and folders", or your Library folder. If selected AFAIK everything inside gets moved over (not intelligent) . On Time Machine, some stuff like most caches, logs, trash, etc. is automatically excluded.

thanks for the info!

[vanhaze]

What about the Live license on the old computer ?
Or plugin licenses, which reside on the harddrive.
Will they be also transferred to the new computer with Migration Assistant ?
Seems to me this is quite important to know.