Migration Assistant over the Air

Macworld’s Jason Snell describes his experience with Migration Assistant on the MacBook Air. The Air is unique in that it has no FireWire port, and so the traditional method of using Migration Assistant, Target Disk Mode, is out of the question.

Apple, of course, has a solution for this too. When you get to Migration Assistant on the Air, it shows you a window telling you to go to your other Mac, open Migration assistant, choose “To another Mac” and type a passkey. What it doesn’t say is that you must first install an updated “Migration Assistant” onto your other computer by installing the Remote Disc software from the MacBook Air installation discs. Once you have installed that software, you can then use Migration Assistant wirelessly! It will be slower than FireWire, depending on your internet speed, but it does get the job done.

Read [Macworld]