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Apple Users

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,221 posts)

7. The transfer should go smoothly using Time Machine

Reply to Atman (Original post)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 01:07 PM

Mar 2012

which should be on your new Mini.

Back up your old machine to an external hard drive, plug the hard drive into one of the Mini's USB drive, and ask Time Machine to "restore" everything you want to transfer. In less than an hour, you'll have everything you want.