Lesson 2. Transfer Your Files to a New Mac Running Tiger

GoalsLearn how easy it is to move all or selected files from an old Mac running a previous version of OS X to a new Mac running Tiger.

Some of us buy new Macs regularly. It's exciting to buy a new Mac the first couple of times, but now many of us dread the process. It takes so much time to get gigabytes of files from one Mac to the other, reinstall so many applications (and then discover that you have to go download the application updates and reinstall those!), dig up your old printer disks so you can install the drivers, get all your system preferences set up all over again, and make all your extra users all over again. And invariably you remember some software application on the old ...

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