{"id":10122,"date":"2014-11-22T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2014-11-22T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:41:14","slug":"updating-before-migrating-to-new-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/updating-before-migrating-to-new-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Before Migrating to New Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2014\/11\/08\/migratingToNewImac.html\">Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2014\/11\/08\/migratingToNewImac.html\"><p>It&rsquo;s normally very easy to migrate, but this time they threw a curveball at me. In order to use the Migration Assistant, I have to upgrade the previous machine (the one I&rsquo;m typing this on) to the latest Mac OS. That&rsquo;s exactly what I <em>don&rsquo;t<\/em> want to do. This is my safety net against incompatibilities in the new version of the OS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems like a strange requirement for that reason&mdash;and also because the old Mac might not be able to run the latest OS. <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT5872\">Apple&rsquo;s documentation<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT5872\"><p>Migration Assistant in Mavericks and Yosemite can transfer information from other computers that have OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or later installed. If you&rsquo;re migrating from a computer with an earlier version of OS X, update your older computer first, or manually copy your data from one computer to another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps he misunderstood, and Migration Assistant only wanted him to update from 10.8.2 to 10.8.5. I don&rsquo;t envy the person who had to write that error message.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer: It&rsquo;s normally very easy to migrate, but this time they threw a curveball at me. In order to use the Migration Assistant, I have to upgrade the previous machine (the one I&rsquo;m typing this on) to the latest Mac OS. That&rsquo;s exactly what I don&rsquo;t want to do. This is my safety net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,903,1063],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite","tag-migration-assistant"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10123,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}