Migration Assistant and Quicken database?

[János]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Roland Torres 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
>
>

Roland,

You might have a corrupted file system either on the iLamp or on the  
new machine, so run disk first aid first.

I copied my Quicken database with no problem from an SE/30 to my  
iBook a few years ago over a 10BaseT connection.

János


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