01-18-2015, 07:40 PM
DewGuy wrote:
How to move data to your new Mac using Mountain Lion and earlier
My sister bought a new MBP several years ago. It came with Mountain Lion. She was moving from a MBP core duo running Tiger. From DewGuy's link:
"Migration from Mac OS X Tiger v10.4 to OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or later
Migrating from OS X Tiger v10.4 to OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or later is not supported and is not expected to complete via Migration Assistant. For upgrades from OS X Tiger or older to OS X Mountain Lion or later, you can make a standard file sharing connection and manually copy your files."
She had bought AppleCare for her new MBP, and because she lives in Florida, we had to call Apple to register AppleCare, it couldn't be done on-line. After registering, I complained (nicely) that I thought it was un-Apple like that she couldn't use Migration Assistant from Tiger (this was when Apple was just becoming the Apple of today.). The AppleCare CSR asked me to hold, then came back a few minutes later and said they would send her a copy of Snow Leopard gratis so she could upgrade her old machine to a version with Migration Assistant that would work with the versionin Mountain Lion. Very nice! Obviously it helped that she had bought a new machine and had also bought AppleCare.