Hello all,
I switched from being a long-time Windows user when the Mac Mini came out. Now, having grown attached to OS X and having been completely won over, I've decided to upgrade my machine to a Powermac G5 (hope its not the wrong time to buy, especially in light of the 970MP).
The only thing I loathe is the transfer of all my stuff over to the new machine. I did a search and the advice seems to concur that once the Mac Mini is in target disk mode, i can transfer over my user settings either during setup on the new machine or later. The question I have is is there any way to avoid reinstalling my apps? I'd really hate to do the whole serial number/activation dance again with CS2, Office, etc. Each of them have settings in library/application support/ that would probably have to be moved over. Is there any easy way to move applications over or is a reinstall my best option? Also someone said I will have to do a reinstall due to 64bit extensions? Is this true?
I've done a search but couldn't find any posts that address the application issue. Forgive me if this is a common question.
I switched from being a long-time Windows user when the Mac Mini came out. Now, having grown attached to OS X and having been completely won over, I've decided to upgrade my machine to a Powermac G5 (hope its not the wrong time to buy, especially in light of the 970MP).
The only thing I loathe is the transfer of all my stuff over to the new machine. I did a search and the advice seems to concur that once the Mac Mini is in target disk mode, i can transfer over my user settings either during setup on the new machine or later. The question I have is is there any way to avoid reinstalling my apps? I'd really hate to do the whole serial number/activation dance again with CS2, Office, etc. Each of them have settings in library/application support/ that would probably have to be moved over. Is there any easy way to move applications over or is a reinstall my best option? Also someone said I will have to do a reinstall due to 64bit extensions? Is this true?
I've done a search but couldn't find any posts that address the application issue. Forgive me if this is a common question.