migration assistant

zsobes said:

i just got a new macbook pro and am trying to transfer all of my photos and music to it from my old macbook via migration assistant. i don't see any of these files though, where would they be?

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Wherever they were on your old system. If you had your pictures in Documents, then they would be there. MA moves all your old content to your new Mac and puts it in the exact same spot.

If you are talking about not seeing it in the actual MA window, then don't worry, it doesn't give you that fine-grained a view of your stuff. But it's all there.

It should look like the following:

When you use Migration Assistant is creates a new user account. If you want the new system to mirror the old use Setup Assistant. Here is a link that shows how to use it, in your case I'd start reading at "Second Chance...."

http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/SetupLion.html