Can you use migration assistant from snow leopard to lion

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If not, it's still not that bad so don't be overly worried :- Worst case, you will have to use something like Disk Utility to restore one of the Time Machine snapshot folders to a volume like an external drive where it will look close enough like a bootable external drive. You can restore files on Lion from Time Machine.

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If you replace, the old account will delete and then replace the account on your new Mac, including everything in its home folder.

Click Continue to start the transfer. Large transfers might need several hours to complete. After Migration Assistant is done, quit Migration Assistant on both computers, then log in to the migrated account on your new Mac to see its files.

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