Refresh the Mac

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Step 3: Transfer Media This is a three-step process. First, transfer your music collection. If you listen to all the music in iTunes, copy the entire iTunes folder ( Macintosh HDUsers MusiciTunes Account name ).

Next, transfer your iPhoto library. To save your iPhoto collection, copy the file titled "iPhoto Library" ( Macintosh HDUsers Account name PicturesiPhoto Library ). If all your photos are not in iPhoto, you need to check if there are any pictures in the Pictures folder ( Macintosh HDUsers Pictures Account name ) or videos in the Movies folder ( Macintosh HDUsers Movies Account name ); If there are files in it, copy them to an external hard drive. You should do this step in your free time because your media files are usually the largest of all the files to copy, and so they will take a long time to copy to an external hard drive.

Step 4: Transfer settings and Bookmarks Do not forget to save all settings and preferences that are set on your device. Usually, they take the most time to re-create, so saving is the best way. The best way to save your settings is to synchronize your preferences with. Mac. To access. Mac Sync, open System Preferences and select. Mac. From here, select Sync in the toolbar and select the preferences you want to sync.

And with Apple's new MobileMe service, you can fully sync your email, so you won't need to copy your Mail folders as described in step 2. Save browser bookmarks : For Safari users : Open Safari, select File , then Export Bookmarks , and save the file to an external hard drive. If you have a. Mac account, you can use it to sync. In Safari, go to Preferences | Bookmarks , then Tick Synchronize my bookmarks section using. Mac .

To restore your email, open Apple Mail, select File , then Import Mailboxes . From here, choose to import data from " Mail for Mac OS X " and select the Mail folder. Your mail will be automatically imported into the new folder called " Imported ". To transfer messages to the main mailbox, you just need to mark all messages and drag them to the correct mailbox.

That's all you need to do to improve the situation for your computer. These operations can take part of your afternoon, but by the end of the day you will find it interesting to have a new Mac that is twice as efficient as the previous state.