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Subject: Transfer from one iMac to another

Original Message

Name: ar bee
Date: April 23, 2008 at 00:46:21 Pacific
Subject: Transfer from one iMac to another
OS: 10.4.9
CPU/Ram: 512
Model/Manufacturer: PowerMac12,1

Comment:

I have two identical iMac G5, I want to transfer the contents from one to the other. I don't quite know how to proceed. I have bought a 250 GB external USB hard drive.
Please advise.
Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: Golfer
Date: April 23, 2008 at 17:29:15 Pacific
Subject: Transfer from one iMac to another

Reply: (edit)

You could use Migration Assistant to transfer the info, all you need is an ethernet cable.
Or, what I would recommend, use SuperDuper (free version) to do it. Connect the two iMacs together with a firewire cable and restart the the iMac you want to transfer to with the T key held down until you get the firewire symbol (this is known a Target Disk Mode, or TDM). Then use SuperDuper to create a clone of the first iMac to the second.

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