Here’s an easy to follow tutorial on how to migrate from a PPC Mac to a Mac-Intel, the aim of this tutorial is to avoid using the migrate utility from OS X which isn’t still 100% safe.

1. Repair the hard drive and permissions using Disk Utility.
2. Backup your data. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there’s some other problem.
3. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
4. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
5. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
6. Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
   • In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
   • In your /Home/Library/ folder:
   • /Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
   • /Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
   • /Home/Library/Fonts
   • /Home/Library/Widgets
   • /Home/Library/Syndication (Tiger) or /Home/Library/PubSub (Leopard) <<< RSS
   • /Home/Library/Internet Plug-Ins
   • /Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
   • /Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
   • Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
   • Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
7. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.

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