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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 267: Migrating With Snow Leopard, Q&A, and Tips!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2010

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

With WWDC out of the way, your two favorite Mac geeks come together to answer your questions and solve your problems. Additionally, Dave shares some first-hand experience with upgrading and migrating Snow Leopard-based Macs, and how things are different now.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek I go in and it's a bit. Goodings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers,

0:27.0

Matt Geek Cab here from Durham, New Hampshire, home from W.W.

0:31.0

I am Dave Hamilton. And on the other end of the Skype connection is...

0:36.0

China and Ron in Fairfield, Connecticut. Welcome home.

0:40.0

Thanks. And I want to wish you a happy fifth anniversary because yesterday marked the fifth

0:46.6

year since we started doing this podcast.

0:48.8

It was June 13, 2005 that we did Mac Geekab number one which which actually at the time wasn't even called Mac Geek oh I guess it was called

0:59.8

Matt Geek.

1:00.8

Yes it was it was that name came in about an hour before we recorded that episode if memory serves.

1:06.0

Wow. Yeah. Five? Five. I know.

1:10.0

What'd you get me? I got you, Matt Geek get number 267. What'd you get me?

1:17.0

Same thing. I'll treasure it always.

1:20.0

Yes, that's right, of course.

1:22.0

All right, as usual, we got way more stuff here, so let's get right into it.

1:27.0

Okay, yeah, all right, let's go with, well, you know, I've been, we just hired a new salesperson here at Backbeat Media, John Donahue, is starting

1:34.8

tomorrow.

1:36.1

And so, you know, I was at W.W. D.C. last week, so yesterday, and today, I was going through

1:42.4

the process of setting up a computer form and was doing it with the

1:46.6

Macbook Pro and wound up doing some migrations and kind of repurposing a couple of machines

1:50.6

in the process.

1:52.4

And it was the first time I'd really done this since I got of this a little bit different.

2:02.8

The first thing, and I'm starting at the bottom of our agenda list here, John, the first thing

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