It ’s time like this that I feel really good about Mac OS X.
Yesterday I took pitch on the new 1.5GHz 12 ” PowerBook G4 . ( Yes , I am a gallant extremity of the Twelve Inch Nation . The 15 - inch PowerBook feel like a brick to me now . It ’s just too darned big . )
As I wrote last May ( the last time I go ) , locomote to a new computer can be a pretty jarring experience . But with all the unlike PowerBook models I ’ve go through over the preceding few long time , I ’ve get it down to a science . It get with Bombich Software’sCarbon Copy Cloner , an splendid ( and free , although a contribution is requested ) public utility company that anyone who ’s moving their Mac sign should use .
There are a few ways to utilize Carbon Copy Cloner ; the easiest is to simply put your new Mac into FireWire Target Mode ( by keep out down , then embark on up and keep back down the T Florida key until the FireWire logotype seem ) , then attach it to your old Mac . When the novel Mac ’s tough ride appears on the screen background , quit out of all your programs and run Carbon Copy Cloner . CCC ’s user interface is n’t much to seem at , but it ’s pretty simple : choose your source parkway , your target drive , enroll your decision maker password , and flick Clone . And then go off and do something fertile , because it takes metre to copy gigabytes of data , even over FireWire .
However , lately I ’ve been using an interim step with Carbon Copy Cloner that also duplicate as a secondary backup regimen . Using an outside FireWire drive and CCC ’s synchronize options , I periodically clone a written matter of my knockout drive to the international drive . It ’s a ready to hand fill-in ( supplement the full , incremental Retrospect substitute thatMacworld ’s IT department holds in its clutches ) and it makes affect from one PowerBook to another even well-to-do .
Upon have my new PowerBook yesterday , I synced my organization with the external drive . Then I disconnect the old PowerBook , plugged in the new one , and reboot off the external drive ! With my entire compute life now on a tiny FireWire hard drive , I was able-bodied to take my raw laptop computer home and clone the contents of the FireWire drive onto it as I ate dinner party . So I ’ve still got my musical accompaniment and I ’m using a newer , fast laptop computer without any pain whatsoever .
The next step in the moving cognitive process is n’t fun , but it ’s necessary , like cleaning out your old apartment when you move to a newfangled one . First , I have to call back to deauthorize my old computer ’s iTunes Music Store score . Tip : leave yourself a military post - it note , stick to the honest-to-goodness data processor , with the parole DEAUTHORIZE on it . Because if you do n’t First State - authorise that computer before someone else require possession , it will be a stupendous pain .
Second , once you ’re absolutely , positively sure that all of your files have made it safe and sound to your new Mac , reboot the old one off of the magnetic disc that came when you buy it ( or of the disc that came with your novel one , which will shape even better in most face ) by holding C down at startup . When the Mac OS ten installer comes up , launch Disk Utility from the menu . Then pick out your old private road and arrange it . If you ’d like to be extra secure , click the Options button and choose to zero the campaign or eight - means random reformat it — that way nobody can reconstruct your private information later .
And if you forget to de - authorize your old Mac before pass over the drive , have no fright — since Apple ’s unparalleled iTunes identifier are based on a Mac ’s hardware , you ’re safe . Just re - set up Mac OS X , launch iTunes , log into your iTunes score , and choose Deauthorize Computer from the Advanced carte du jour .
certain , things were easier in Mac atomic number 8 9 . You could just select all your folders in the heavy drive window , drag , and drop . Those daytime were nice . But with Carbon Copy Cloner , the operation is almost as comfortable . The next fourth dimension you switch Macs , give it a endeavour . I do n’t think you ’ll be disappoint .
