Migration Tool - How reliable is it?

[dL.]

I'm always under the impression that when you do any sort of Archive, migrate, or merge or whatever to copy your old data to a new copy of your OS, it's bad. At least in the Windows world.

How is it really like in the Mac side? Anyone tried it via migration tool or via Time Machine? Slower than clean install? The same?

dL

 

[emt1]

I'm always under the impression that when you do any sort of Archive, migrate, or merge or whatever to copy your old data to a new copy of your OS, it's bad. At least in the Windows world.

How is it really like in the Mac side? Anyone tried it via migration tool or via Time Machine? Slower than clean install? The same?

dL

It doesn't suck. Welcome to the world of Mac OS.

Personally, I'd do a clean install anyways.

 

[lakerboy]

I just got a new MacBook, and I used the migration assisstant to transfer my old PB12" data over. It worked great; I was impressed! I used it with my time machine backup, and it worked flawlessly. Using my external HD (USB of course ), it still worked pretty fast, taking maybe 30 or 40 minutes total, even though the girl at the Apple Store said it would take forever.

Go ahead and give it a shot.

 

[sukanas]

i did it from my old imac (spec in sig) to my new mbp
i was scared at first too with the same thoughts you had
but i thought id give it a shot

let me tell you, it was freakin amazing
everything literally transfered over perfectly
my logitech mouse drivers transfered perfectly, my system pref, istat menubar, itunes, aperture, etc...
after all, it doesnt hurt to try.. you can always clean install


oh one note, it actually did transfer my 'sharing' setting so it said that my mbp was an Imac ie. "David's iMac" so ull have to change that in ur system preference... no biggie