MacBook :: Transferring Data From One To Another?

May 18, 2012

I recently bought a second hand mac from ebay and it was pretty empty. There are some settings still from the previous user. 

My old mac's backlight has died and the only way to use it is to link it up to my tv. 

I have tried using the Migration assistant via WI-FI and ethernet cable and both haven't worked. 

I'm considering taking the hard drive out of the mac and using it as an external hard drive. There are a couple of programs i've tried to download but dont work and i'd really like my firefox settings back! 

I was also wondering if i was able to take the RAM from the old mac and install it in the new mac?  

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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