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Do what Orange said and the system will be identical to your old system. You might lose a few settings but iMove and iPhoto will be 100% cloned. The settings that are possible to lose are the ones running while you're cloning. For example I lost my Little Snitch database because I forgot to shut it down. But so for that's all. Everything else is 100% identical.
 
I just did a carbon copy clone and everything worked great. Now the only thing is that every time I boot the system I get a black screen with many white words that loads up OSX. How can I get rid of this? Is it normal.
 
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