Making more of Migration Assistant<article>
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Bob White (not the bird) needs just a little bit more help with transferring his data from an old Mac to a new one. He writes:</p>
Can I use Migration Assistant to transfer my data from my old MacBook Air (that’s running Mavericks) to my newer MacBook Air (which came with Yosemite installed)? Or must I upgrade my old Mac to Yosemite first? (I would rather not update to Yosemite on the old one just yet.)
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Well then, today’s your lucky day! Migration Assistant in both Mavericks and Yosemite can copy data between your new Mac and another Mac running a version of the Mac OS as old as Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.
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Apple suggests that if you want to migrate data from a Mac that’s running a version of OS X created before Snow Leopard, you either update that Mac to a compatible version of OS X or transfer the data manually.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2868311/making-more-of-migration-assistant.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Making more of Migration Assistant