By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 08:15 PM EST (05:15 PM PST)
Apple has issued an update to Migration Assistant for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, allowing Leopard users to transfer data, settings and applications to new Macs running Mac OS X Lion.
Issued on Wednesday,
Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Leopard resolves an issue that prevented the tool from transferring data to the latest version of Mac OS X, which Apple
released in July. The update is a 4.98MB download and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Users should take note, though, that Mac OS X Lion
drops support for the Rosetta emulation environment, so any migrated PowerPC applications will not run on the new OS.
Apple released a Migration Assistant Update for Snow Leopard
in July, ahead of Lion's arrival on the Mac App Store. The company has also
added support for Windows PCs to Migration Assistant in Lion, enabling PC users to more easily make the switch to Mac OS X.
The Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker has been doing some minor housekeeping for Lion this week. On Monday, Apple issued a Lion Recovery Disk Assistant tool that
allows the creation of a Recovery Disk on external drives.
Mac OS X Lion has seen early success, with
first day downloads exceeding the one million mark. Despite encountering a few minor bugs and glitches in Lion, reviewers have
praised the upgrade as a "big leap" into the post-PC iPad era.
