HELP!- Moving HW & from build 624 (wounded Mini)

[R. Doug Werner]

Just thought I’d close out the thread on this and say thank you to James and Philippe’s input on my Mini transplant.  

Everything transitioned over pretty smoothly and the house is back running using the replacement Mac Mini via El Capitan and XT build 942. 

SAF back to 100% after a few days of finding time to actually do it.

Now to learn more about Video Pitcher and see if I can fold that into my mix.  

Gracias to the list and of course to James and Michael for this great ongoing evolution of XTension. 

-Doug

 
> On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:20 PM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
> 
> i’m on Philippe’s side here :) How much else is in the user account or on the machine that you need to preserve?
> 
> I’m not sure even the migration assistant will get everything perfectly converted between such dispirit versions. What else will you have to re-install.
> 
> I would simplify even further :) 
> 
> Get new machine, update to latest OS version it supports. 
> 
> Copy XTension database and any supporting apps and things from the thumb drive.
> 
> Install keyspan or any other drivers that are necessary.
> 
> run XTension 854 to convert database.
> 
> run most recent version of XTension.
> 
> Then update or install anything else that you needed in there. For a server I can’t imagine what else you’d have in the user folders that would be so difficult to copy over rather than migrate. You will have to reset network preferences and don’t go to sleep preferences and those sorts of things, but thats well worth not risking bringing forward strange preferences that might do strange things in a newer version.
> 
> 
>> On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Philippe SCHMUCK <philippe-schmuck at orange.fr <mailto:philippe-schmuck at orange.fr>> wrote:
>> 
>> I think your are over complicating a little bit the process :-)
>> 
>> I would do a clone backup on an external drive using Carbon Copy Cloner (for instance) (I’m not sure the Time Machine backup is creating a bootable disk).
>> On your new Mini, once you have updated the system and all the apple stuff, I would simply use the Migration Assistant tool between the cloned backup disk and the new Mini; after that, you do the driver update of your Keyspan and RF800 if needed and you do the upgrade of 
> 
> Thanks,
>  James
> 
> 
> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org <http://www.planetarygear.org/>		http://MacHomeAutomation.com <http://machomeautomation.com/>
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> XTensionList mailing list
> XTensionList at machomeautomation.com
> http://mail.machomeautomation.com/mailman/listinfo/xtensionlist

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.machomeautomation.com/pipermail/xtensionlist/attachments/20160901/91a0c130/attachment.html>