The 'Set Up Assistant' or do you mean 'System Preferences' should cover the configuration of your computer and network, unless you have network shares. And that would be my first port of call in a clean install procedure. Therefore you will [should] not need to 'transfer' anything over. Next stop is installing your apps manually. Ideally, you will need to set up as much as possible, fresh. Hence, clean install. The only thing you should be transferring over is user files, media, documents etc. The likelyhood that anything within them is corrupt and having an impact on system performance is negligible. Try not to transfer anything system related, i.e. Library folders and preference files. There is no need and these do carry a risk of corruption.
Good luck.
Thanks for the reply! I did mean to say set up assistant. On apple forums, I was told set up assistant is very similar to migration assistant but, s a is better. You can only use s a when you first turn on the new computer, otherwise you will have to use m a. I do not think I will need any help to manually re install the apps. I just do not know exactly what the steps are that s a will walked me through. I had searched and phone some tutorials that say what s a will do . I do not know this first handI do not know this 1st hand… Yet.
The tutorial said that you will be asked to check up to four boxes . The boxes Are; Applications, user accounts, other files And folders And the last one is computer and network settings.
So I know I will leave applications unchecked since I do not want to transfer over the applications from my old computer which may have some corruption. Regarding user accounts, i'm not sure. I definitely one to transfer over my mail and my personal documents and media files as you mentioned. So if I check user accounts and it gives me the option to select which user accounts I would only choose my own administrator account which I assume would then poured over the above mentioned mail and personal files. I would like to have all the set up files that I spend so much time tweaking for my mail program. This probably involves the mail p list files in the preferences folder.. However the next box is labeled other files and folders, I am not sure but I suspect that this will give me access to look through all the files and folders on my old system and check which ones I want to transfer over.
Maybe I should not check user accounts and just check other files and folders and then manually move e-mails documents photos music at cetera? By the way I am using speech to text on my phone to reply. One concern I have with not transferring over my main user account is that it may wreak havoc with permissions for all my personal documents!
The final box that I need to decide whether to check or not to check is in titled computer and network settings . I'm not sure what exactly this involves . That's why I wish someone who had been through this very thing could tell me rather than me Guessing what Each of these Involves. My concern is that I will only be allowed to either check or uncheck each of these four boxes and then set up assistant will do its thing, and it will be too late to change my options.
You are correct that I do not want to transfer over system files if I can help it. If I knew that I would be able to micro-manage exactly what computer and network settings are going to be transferred over I could minimize those. For example network settings I could easily reset up myself. I don't need my new dock to exactly match my old dock.
I'm also not exactly sure what the major differences are between set up assistant and migration assistant. I had asked many of these questions on the apple forums but no replies.
So I need information from people who are experienced with using set up assistant.
Maybe I should check none of the four boxes but then why am I using set up assistant? Or, maybe the only box I should chuck is other files and folders and then just navigate through my old system and chuck or drag over things like The contents of my folders such as male, documents, media at cetera . By the way apparently speech to text is not familiar with the abbreviation for at cetera, e t c.
Thanks again to anywho replyThanks again to any who Reply!
