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transfer of one user to another computer - thekingofboggle - 05-21-2007
i have a g4 733 tower running panther, i believe, and i want to set it up for my wife to use. currently she has a user on my g5 2.0 dual core powermac running tiger. can i just take her user folder on the g5 and drag it to the g4 over the network and everything will carry over?
Re: transfer of one user to another computer - Ken Sp. - 05-21-2007
The Applications will not come with it.
Fire up the target machine. Go to Applications>Utilities>Migration assistant and follow the directions.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/setup/
Re: transfer of one user to another computer - tahoedrew - 05-21-2007
Migration Assistant will transfer everything she'll need.
~A
Re: transfer of one user to another computer - thekingofboggle - 05-22-2007
she's on 10.3.9, so it doesn't include migration assistant
Re: transfer of one user to another computer - Ken Sp. - 05-22-2007
Migration assistant was included with later disks of 10.3--I think 10.3.4 or 10.3.5.
It would not have been included with 10.3 that had been upgraded along the way.
I wonder if you could just take the migration app from the G5 and run it on 10.3.
Re: transfer of one user to another computer - ka jowct - 05-22-2007
Any reason why you are sticking with Panther on that machine? Tiger would run fine on it. And then you'd have the migration tool.