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Migration Assistant question
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11-13-2011, 06:35 PM
I need to move material from a macbook to a new Macbook Pro. The MBP already has an administrative profile set up by the same name but with out of date documents and data files.
If I run Migration assistant on the MBP, will it just replace the user (which is fine) or create a second user account by the same name?
11-13-2011, 07:06 PM
One of your options is to transfer any, all or no user accounts. In your case, you can transfer the new user folder and delete the other when you are up and running and confident all is good. Or just leave the other user there and just don't use it.
11-13-2011, 07:36 PM
'Been awhile since I encountered that scenario, but as I recall it gives an error and simply won't migrate an account when the account has the same username as one already on the Mac.
Did you want to keep the contents of the obsolete Home folder? If so then one option for you is to create an additional admin account, log in under that account and use it to delete the redundant account from the Accounts (or Users & Groups) preferences. When you do so, you have the option to save the Home folder for that user. Do so and then move that Home folder out of the Users folder. Then when you migrate the other account there's no chance of screwing it up. (This assumes that you've got enough space on your hard drive for both the obsolete Home folder and the new one.)
11-13-2011, 08:23 PM
Yes, if it's the same name, it will ask you to change the name.
11-13-2011, 09:33 PM
Hope I'm not thread-hijacking here, but what about Applications? I'm thinking of doing a virgin install of Lion on a new HD, then using MA to bring over just the Applications and other files. I would then manually copy over data and minimal prefs, just to get as clean a slate as possible. MA is capable of copying things like Adobe CS5 without requiring deactivation/reactivation, right?
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