Safe to Migrate?

Hi,

I've been using my mac for about two and a half years now - it's a 1.25GHz eMac which still runs perfectly well but at christmas it's being joined by a shiny new MacBook.

In this time I've filled my existing mac up with thousands of documents for school, photos, music tracks and all the trappings of a rich iLife. I want to bring these over onto my new mac come christmas morning so I bought a 6-pin to 6-pin firwire cable which I thought would let me go through the migration assistant just fine.

I read a little further into the migration assistant (never a good thing) and some sites recommend cleaning up the mac I'm migrating from (eMac) first. I ran the disk utility but it couldn't verify the disk because some months ago I balls'd up and emptied the ".../library/receipts" folder thinking it didn't matter.

I could salvage it but with just 2GB of disk space left I don't feel like reinstalling Tiger...

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could help out. Can I still boot up the new mac and migrate everything just fine or am I safer transferring things one by one in target disk mode?

(PS. If target disk mode's preferable can someone tell me how to get into it and where all my application/network settings are hiding?)

Thanks,
Neil

 

That sounds great, thanks.