Establishment of iMac 2

Hi - Thanks for your help in advance!

I run an early 2009 24-inch 2.66 ghz, 4 GB, 640 GB. I run El Capitan (iMac1). This machine runs at capacity (nearly 600 GB 640 GB used). It has 120 GB of pictures (initially used Aperture but too complicated for needs so switched to iPhoto. "I have a lot of duplicate photos but would be a nightmare to go through and remove the trash). The next largest proportion of storage is 'other' to 280 GB.

I have this machine backed up via Time Machine on a portable external hard drive.

I now buy a newer model of 21.5 inches 2012, 8 GB, 1 TB (iMac2), to use my main computer and put back the old iMac to my children.

Here are the questions for me:

  1. My old machine works wrong after years of building up. If I'm on Time Machine backup is there a chance that I'm also back up the problem?
  2. I want to erase iMac 1 - What is the best way to do it? Don't worry regain "presets" somehow not!
  3. I will face the problems of transfer between external drive and iMac2?
  4. Is there anything else I should do before you begin the process?

Thank you very much - and if there are other questions I should have asked, please do not hesitate to ask and answer for me!

See you soon

S

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