Migration Assistant and Quicken database?

[Chad Leigh]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Terry Allen wrote:

>> My friend has an old 'iLamp' Mac and wants to upgrade to a new  
>> iMac. He is worried about how to transfer his stuff off the old  
>> and onto the new, and I told him that OS X has a 'Migration  
>> Assistant' application that can do that. However, he has a Quicken  
>> database on the old Mac. Does anyone know if Migration Assistant  
>> will 'copy' (rebuild? recreate?) it correctly? From what I  
>> understand, Quicken DBs are somehow tied to physical blocks on the  
>> disk.  Intuit doesn't seem to offer a tool to do the job, as far  
>> as I can tell.
>>
>> Roland
>>
> Hi again,
> 	We've found that the Migration assistant works extremely well. My  
> suggestion is to start the old machine in Firewire target mode,  
> connect a firewire cable to the new machine & run the assistant.

You can also try burning a Mac compatible CD on the old  machine and  
bring it to the new machine.  Finder copy should not lose meta data

Chad


> At the very worst, you'll only find that Quicken won't accept the  
> new database & you'll have lost nothing from the old machine.