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Question about time machine...

Bootsie

Bootsie

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I am planning on selling my early 2008 MBP and buying a new 15" 2.2 this week, but this was my first mac, so I have never transferred from mac to mac.

Will I need to install programs and everything again? (Office, Photoshop, etc...) or can I just use the time machine backup and have it do it for me?

Will they be authorized and everything, or do I need to unauthorize them from the old one, and all of that fun stuff?

Will a time machine backup work well this way, or do I need to use migration assistant?

I will be doing a clean reinstall of the OS on the old one, so I want to make sure it will all work well because I might have to sell the old one a few days before I get the new one.

Thanks for your help!
 
time machine will do it all. just make sure you select the "restore from time machine partition" option (or something like that) when installing the OS on the new computer.
 
When you first start up your new mac it will ask if you want to transfer files from an existing computer then you can plug in your time machine backup and migration assistant will transfer over all your files and applications.
 
Sweet, thanks! So I don't have to worry about de-authorizing the old macbook at all right?
 
Bootsie said:
Sweet, thanks! So I don't have to worry about de-authorizing the old macbook at all right?
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I'm wondering this as well, as I'm selling my old 17". A disk utility erase, followed by a fresh OS install is all that needs to be done, correct? No data can be mined after these two processes?
 
I think you should be on the safe side and de-authorize Photoshop or any Adobe suite on your old computer after your new one is set up. I think you only get 2 installs for them so you wouldn't want to use up one on an old machine.
 
baxnet said:
I'm wondering this as well, as I'm selling my old 17". A disk utility erase, followed by a fresh OS install is all that needs to be done, correct? No data can be mined after these two processes?
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I would like to make sure of this too.
 
I've always felt it was best to just do a clean install of all my programs than allowing Time Machine "restore" my old setup. I just pull up my old Time Machine and pull any documents, music and etc.

But, that's just me...


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I used Time Machine with the Mac migration assistant on Sunday to migrate all my data and apps from a 2010 MBP to a 2011 model. Everything worked perfectly fine afterwards
 
Mik3F said:
I used Time Machine with the Mac migration assistant on Sunday to migrate all my data and apps from a 2010 MBP to a 2011 model. Everything worked perfectly fine afterwards
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Same here. Used my Time Machine backup to migrate my 2009 MBP to my 2011 MBP. No glitches at all. Very pleased. Tranferred settings, documents, programs, everthing.
 
So if I do a clean install, and migrate everything back, Photoshop should work correctly?
 
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