{"id":542,"date":"2009-07-31T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/31\/mac-migration-near-painless\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:27:40","slug":"mac-migration-near-painless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/31\/mac-migration-near-painless\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Migration &#8211; Near Painless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/apple.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>I happen to get a new Macbook Pro this week at work, replacing my couple-year old one.  Upon booting it up for the first time it offered me several choices to migrate my data.  I chose the Firewire option and plugged my two computers together.  After a couple hours of crunching I was delighted to find out that everything (applications, documents, user data) seems to have been migrated over to the new machine.  I even had my existing browser history and cookies, my customized BASH profile, etc.  It was like a brain transplant from one computer to another but without copying a disk image.  There were only two gotchas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Certificates that enable wifi at work were not migrated<\/li>\n<li>Safari 4 was not migrated (I was left with Safari 3.2.1 on the new box)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I only realized the latter when I noticed that some SMIL animation had stopped working in Safari \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happen to get a new Macbook Pro this week at work, replacing my couple-year old one. Upon booting it up for the first time it offered me several choices to migrate my data. I chose the Firewire option and plugged my two computers together. After a couple hours of crunching I was delighted to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,44,11],"tags":[182,112,120],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-safari","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macbook","tag-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}