Migration assistant is one of Apple’s most valuable utilities. I’ve used it frequently over the years to migrate my user accounts, applications, etc. between two Macs and I’ve never had any problems ...

Apple has issued an update to Migration Assistant for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, allowing Leopard users to transfer data, settings and applications to new Macs running Mac OS X Lion. Issued on Wednesday, ...

There may be times when the OS X installer will present an error and prevent you from upgrading your current OS installation. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Many PC users migrating to Mac OS X store their emails and other personal organization data (calendars, contacts) in Microsoft Outlook. Although setting up new email accounts is relatively simple, it ...

Migration Assistant in macOS has matured to an effective and rapid way to transplant the brain of one Mac to another. I recently migrated from an M1 Mac mini to a Mac Studio using a Thunderbolt 4 ...

PC owners jonesing for the new MacBook Pros (or any future Mac, we suppose) would do well to take a quick look at what’s coming down the pipeline with Mac OS X Lion. Mainly Migration Assistant’s PC-to ...

Meh. My new OS install process is like this: 1. Carbon Copy Cloner to my HDD, making a 1:1 image of my disk onto an external drive No need for the massive article. Call me crazy but I've never used ...

(For those new to the column, Forward Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A forward migration kit is ...

In the first head-to-head comparison of trying to accomplish a task with Mac OS and Vista in this series, the new Windows operating system fell flat on its face. Migrating from an XP installation was ...

I have an external USB drive formatted for Mac OS X with 200 GB of data that I need to transfer to a Windows machine. I have an external USB drive formatted for Mac OS X with 200GB of data that I need ...