I'm Planning On Getting a New iMac This Weekend. Maybe Tomorrow

[NashVegas]

It's Tennessee's "sales tax holiday" weekend.

The question: How will I (easily) go about porting my email boxes and preferences over to the new machine? Currently I'm on a G4 running 10.2.8

Has anyone done this?

[Seedersandleechers]

1. The apple store where I live did that for me

when I bought my new imac several months ago. They transfered everything off my macbook. My macbook was less then a year old and I spilled just a few drops of wine on the keyboard. Just the few drops was enough to kill the damn thing but they were able to put all the info onto the new mac.

[NashVegas]

2. Mine's Not So Portable

It's the old "lampshade" iMac.

[Seedersandleechers]

3. If it were me

I would at least talk to them about bringing in the hard drive for the transfer, and if nothing else bring it in on a dolly if you have to. I'm not familiar on what type of computer you have but the apple people can do some pretty incredible stuff. Are you getting the 20" or 24" imac? I did not have the money for the 24" inch one since I trashed my macbook in less than a year.:cry:

[NashVegas]

6. 20"

That's really all I need.

[Bongo Prophet]

4. Piece o' cake - migration assistant and a firewire cable.

Inside your applications/utilities folder, it will let you move all or part of your original HD, including passwords, prefs, etc.

[NashVegas]

5. Got It

Got most of it but some things didn't come over so well. Old iCal stuff, Address Book addys; Firefox seems a bit handicapped on Leopard re:plugins. Maybe there's a preferences folder I misplaced somewhere.

Mixed reaction. I like the new version of iMovie, didn't realize I was going to have to kiss my classic Mac aps goodbye.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. spend $15 on a firewire cord.

The new machine will have specific instructions on porting from old machine to new one. You will have to reboot your older mac, while pressing Apple S or Apple T. that turns it into a hard drive only.

then plug in the firewire to both machines, and boot the new machine. The old computer should appear as an additional hard drive.

The transfer over is pretty automated, if you wish to do it that way, (bookmarks, mail, iTunes, passwords, etc.) or you can shift stuff manually.