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New iMac for Xmas! Yay! Now, though, I must move some stuff over from our old iMac. It looks like Migration Assistant offers broad options (all applications, or all files, or all settings, etc.), and really I just want to be able to move a few applications (like MS Office) with all the correct licenses intact.

Any suggestions? If I just copy over the entire Office folder, will that do the trick or are there various and sundry files scattered around in Libraries and Preferences that I need to bring with?

And in case you're wondering, I didn't do Migration Assistant's global switchover upon initial start-up because we were at my in-laws and we couldn't resist playing with the new computer for a few days. Plus, our iTunes and iPhoto libraries were on external drives, and easily moved over.

Just drag and drop it over, along with the related folder in your my docs folder and you should have most everything set up the way you want.

The one that WOULD give you headaches is the Adobe activated stuff. You'll have to Deactivate it on the old machine and Reactivate it on the new one, or it will get license cranky.

Thanks! Office moved over without a problem. Oddly, Delicious Library didn't carry over its license, so I entered it by hand.

We didn't have anything from Adobe beyond Acrobat Reader installed, so no problems there.

Copy over your (~)/Library/Application Support files. You will also find preferences in the library, if you want those.

You're making me think of Inkscape rather well at the moment, Dave. And it's been behaving well since my own migration, now that I think of it.

More on that software in its own thread...