Jan 17
The migration assistant that comes with OS X is too good. It makes life so tempting when you get a new machine. Hmm, “I could be right back where I was if I just migrate everything”.
The .app applications and plist files make life easy for that application to do its work of course. No registry fluff to try to merge here.
There are items that you will miss though. Did you tweak /etc/hosts on your machine? Change the lookupd order?
There are many little things like this that you will find over time.
I used to look forward to getting a new computer as a forced spring cleaning. It would take me awhile to custom migrate applications over, but it felt like life was cleaner because of it.
So, to migrate or not to migrate….
January 17th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Worse, if you’ve customized your runtime environment at all (e.g., with Fink or DarwinPorts or by hand), you’ll lose everything in /usr/local, /opt, and /sw.
My personal preference is for always starting clean and reinstalling. No need to drag the unknown warts from machine to machine…