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From: gtr on 2 Feb 2010 13:16
I am giving my older PPC iMac to my wife who has an antique powerbook.

What I'd like to do is simply "drain" all user-related information from
her pbook to the iMac so that she can log in.

Is there a simple way to do this?
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From: gtr on 4 Feb 2010 14:30
On 2010-02-04 11:07:43 -0800, gtr said:

> We're migrating from 10.4.11 to 10.5.6. After about 4 tries it worked
> well, but once finished I note that Safari has none of her bookmarks,
> but has the default (first time use) bookmarks instead. Likewise there
> is nothing in her keychain file.
>
> Do these have to be moved manually? From where to where? I snooped in
> the keychain on the old box and find no place for export.
>
> Are their other similar oddities that have to be moved by hand?

Hmm. I think what happend was this. I did my initial migrate from a
superduped disk that had the keychain missing. Then I did the migrate
from the original box, but they are still missing. I think maybe the
migrate was reluctant to move over files that were (in theory) older
than the new (empty) files.

I've removed the user from the to-box, and have reinitiated the
migrate. This time I've crossed my fingers, hopefully that will help.
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From: gtr on 4 Feb 2010 19:53
On 2010-02-04 11:30:24 -0800, gtr said:

> On 2010-02-04 11:07:43 -0800, gtr said:
>
>> We're migrating from 10.4.11 to 10.5.6. After about 4 tries it worked >
>> well, but once finished I note that Safari has none of her bookmarks, >
>> but has the default (first time use) bookmarks instead. Likewise there
>> > is nothing in her keychain file.
>>
>> Do these have to be moved manually? From where to where? I snooped in
>> > the keychain on the old box and find no place for export.
>>
>> Are their other similar oddities that have to be moved by hand?
>
> Hmm. I think what happend was this. I did my initial migrate from a
> superduped disk that had the keychain missing. Then I did the migrate
> from the original box, but they are still missing. I think maybe the
> migrate was reluctant to move over files that were (in theory) older
> than the new (empty) files.
>
> I've removed the user from the to-box, and have reinitiated the
> migrate. This time I've crossed my fingers, hopefully that will help.

That was the problem: I had two (or three) "overwrites" of a user on
the to-box. When I finally got the "from" location correct, it seems
it was reluctant to overwrite directories that had newer (today's)
dates. I wiped the user from the to-box, re-initiated Migration
Assistant again, it took 2+ hours to do instead of the 30 minutes it
had taken in the last few previous tries.

All is well with keychains, Safari's bookmarks, etc. Of course when my
wife gets home and actually uses the machine I'll find out, no doubt,
that the couch might look better over there and where are those
thingees, you know the little thingees?
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Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.

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