Mat on Macs

Apple’s Migration Assistant is a great idea; get a new Mac, put your old Mac in Firewire Disk Mode, and seamlessly transfer all your files and settings. What could be wrong with that? Well if your new mac is an Intel Mac and your old mac is not, then you may have some problems. I of course didn’t think about this; so I merrily transferred everything over and started BONAVENTURE. Well he didn’t like that one bit. CLARE, my Powerbook from which I was transferring everything, of course had tons of login items and prefpanes which ended up being incompatible with the Intel iMac. After some cursing and forced restarts I managed to get rid of most of the incompatible software. However, if I were doing it again I just copy over my files manually (Home folder, Applications folder, and a some items from /Library).