Migration Assistant

[Rhalliwell1]

I am on the edge of my seat with excitement as my new iMac should arrive tomorrow and i am just preparing things i.e. clearing desk of junk and doing a little research into migration assistant as i haven't used it before and want to get it right!

Ok, so i will be migrating from my old MacBook Pro to the iMac using the MacBook Pro's time machine backup. However i have come across a potential snag; The old MacBook Pro has iLife '08 and the new one will have '09. Will i lose '09 when i migrate? any way around this?

Thanks in advance

 

[Consultant]

migration assistant is not time machine

You won't lose the newer software with migration assistant.

 

[Rhalliwell1]

migration assistant is not time machine

You won't lose the newer software with migration assistant.

so if i tell Migration Assistant to use the time machine backup it wont copy it all off that (iLife '08 too)?

 

[aristobrat]

It's been my experience that the Migration Assistant will not overwrite newer versions of apps on the new machine, no matter what the source {a Mac in target disk mode, a Time Machine backup on an external drive, etc}.

Hopefully someone else with the same experience will chime in.

If worst comes to worst, you can use the restore DVDs on your new Mac to reinstall iLife '09.

 

[upaymeifixit]

It will be fine.

No it won't install any of the pre-installed apps or overwrite new versions of apps. Just go through it normally and it will work fine, you have nothing to worry about.

 

[Rhalliwell1]

It's been my experience that the Migration Assistant will not overwrite newer versions of apps on the new machine, no matter what the source {a Mac in target disk mode, a Time Machine backup on an external drive, etc}.

Hopefully someone else with the same experience will chime in.

If worst comes to worst, you can use the restore DVDs on your new Mac to reinstall iLife '09.

No it won't install any of the pre-installed apps or overwrite new versions of apps. Just go through it normally and it will work fine, you have nothing to worry about.

Thanks