The first job I’ve done was to migrate all my user profile data to the Macintosh (is Mac still called Macintosh?).
Following is my most important profile stuff:
- email accounts
- itunes library
- eclipse settings
- firefox configuration
For making it not harder as needed, I decided not to switch applications if they are available for OSX. So I never started Safari or iMail or Camino (Camino is a Mozilla Browser with more OSX look and feel then Firefox. The only sucess in favor of Safari is using the Mozilla Rendering Engine).
I’ve installed MS Office 2004 (one year newer then my Windows Version :), using “Entourage” (It’s just the renamed MS Outlook for OSX but with much more features then the Windows Version). Importing the Windows Registry in Entourage seems not to be working, so I needed to reenter my account data - very fast done.
ITunes was god’s sake available for Macintosh :)))) I copied the directory with the settings, opened up the xml file and replaced with a small regular expression all network share references to M: with a smb-unix-share. Opening up iTunes, all was in there. WOW 
That was easy.
Eclipse I even never tried to reuse my .metadata directory. As the SVN checkouts differ between unix and windows (because of CRLF) I just started from scratch. This is still a building lot and one of the most importants for me.
As Browser I installed Firefox - so I can use my plugins and all my settings from my windows version, I thought. After fuddling around with the profile I’ve seen some problems with the browser window. So I migrated most of the settings, bookmarks and saved passwords to the OSX Profile and reinstalled the known Plugins. Firefox is almost working like the Windows Version - and because I’m using del.icio.us it is still pretty easy to exchange new bookmarks between my three Computers, even if one of them is now a Macintosh.
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