Migrating User Settings in Mac OS X
Summary: As part of Mitch Ratcliffe's comparison of the Vista and Mac OS X user experiences, this is a step-by-step explanation of how to migrate user settings, documents and applications from one Mac OS X installation to another.
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Once the files are ready to go, the Migration Assistant will tell you the actual transfer has begun. Along the way, it will calculate estimated time remaining. Depending upon how much data you are moving, this process could take from a half hour to five hours (if you are moving hundreds of Gigabytes of files).
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