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Atman

(31,464 posts)

8. Yes, as I discovered!

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:03 PM

Mar 2012

I hooked the old machine to the new mini via Firewire, thinking i could use target disk mode. But they wanted to connect via wifi. SLOW! Estimated time was over 60 hours! But I have an external 2tb raid for Time Machine. Once I told the Mini to restore from Time Machine, things went smoothly.