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I posted this on an Apple fan discussion forums and it got almost 100 views and not a single reply. I guess the most folks using Apple never migrate, migrate using TM, or just buy other Apple products and not OS X based Apple products.
Have an old iMac running Lion (10.7.5) and waiting to receive new iMac running El Capitan. I setup TM ~4.5 years ago to perform backups, but at the time I was new to OS X. As such, I am sure it isn't backing up everything.
For TM I has a USB2 external hard drive that the backups are stored on. Can TM be used as a migration tool to move everything over to the new iMac?
The post migration plans are to nuke and pave the old iMac, update the operating system and re-purpose it. As such I would like to also move the purchased software (Office, Lightroom, ACDSee) along with the free software (Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome).
I know I can just fresh install the FF/Tb/Chrome and copy the Profile folder over to the new iMac, but I wonder about the purchased software since the intent is to permanently remove it from the old iMac.
Have an old iMac running Lion (10.7.5) and waiting to receive new iMac running El Capitan. I setup TM ~4.5 years ago to perform backups, but at the time I was new to OS X. As such, I am sure it isn't backing up everything.
For TM I has a USB2 external hard drive that the backups are stored on. Can TM be used as a migration tool to move everything over to the new iMac?
The post migration plans are to nuke and pave the old iMac, update the operating system and re-purpose it. As such I would like to also move the purchased software (Office, Lightroom, ACDSee) along with the free software (Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome).
I know I can just fresh install the FF/Tb/Chrome and copy the Profile folder over to the new iMac, but I wonder about the purchased software since the intent is to permanently remove it from the old iMac.