OLD MBP Has Yosemite NEW MBP Has Mavericks

[markgpearse]

When the Yosemite public Beta was released I migrated my current MBP from Mavericks to Yosemite... the whole thing. I know, I know, I wasn't supposed to do that. In fact, I have had no issues. All my apps work, including, Quicken, Office, Adobe, etc. Since installing Yosemite, I have continued to backup to Time Capsule.

On Friday, I will receive my new MBP (I couldn't wait for the new chips supposedly coming out in 2015.) Of course it will come with Mavericks. I will not migrate my new MBP to Yosemite. I will wait until the official release.

The question I have is will I be able to restore my photos and music from my most recent Time Capsule backup done with my Yosemite MBP to my new Mavericks MBP?

Any thoughts?

 

[Watabou]

Yes you can, you just have to do it individually. Just select your music/pictures folder and copy that over to the new machine.

You might have to delete the newer iTunes Library file that's in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunesLibrary.itl because that won't work with iTunes 11.

 

[asriznet]

When the Yosemite public Beta was released I migrated my current MBP from Mavericks to Yosemite... the whole thing. I know, I know, I wasn't supposed to do that. In fact, I have had no issues. All my apps work, including, Quicken, Office, Adobe, etc. Since installing Yosemite, I have continued to backup to Time Capsule.

On Friday, I will receive my new MBP (I couldn't wait for the new chips supposedly coming out in 2015.) Of course it will come with Mavericks. I will not migrate my new MBP to Yosemite. I will wait until the official release.

The question I have is will I be able to restore my photos and music from my most recent Time Capsule backup done with my Yosemite MBP to my new Mavericks MBP?

Any thoughts?

I believe you can run migration assistant to restore your data onto your new Macbook Pro.

This will not restore the OS so that means you will still maintain OS X Mavericks on the new Macbook Pro.

refer to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872 for instructions.