when and when not to use migration assistance - MacRumors Forums Whether to use Migration Assistant or load everything manually is a very personal choice There are plenty of people who will say they always use Migration Assistant and never load from scratch and they have no problems and cruft is harmless and uses negligible space I am more in cruft-is-harmless camp but sometimes load from scratch
Opencore Legacy Patcher vs. Migration Assistant Migration Assistant is usually only transferring your account info, system settings, files and apps When you are restoring the whole macOS from the Time Machine it will transfer all the OCLP post install root patches as well that you might not want on your new Mac I guess the key is to understand the difference between the Migration Assistant and "going back in time" by doing a full system
Migration Assistant not using Thunderbolt between new M4 MBP and old . . . I'm trying to use Migration Assistant to migrate from a 2016 Touch Bar MBP to my newly arrived 14" M4 MBP (base M4) via a direct USB-C Thunderbolt connection I spent an hour and a half on Apple chat support last night but we couldn't fix it Both were are plugged in to their chargers, and
Migration Assistant not working transferring to MacBook Neo Migration Assistant transfers documents, apps, user accounts, and settings from one Mac to another It doesn’t delete information from your old Mac or replace the operating system (macOS) on your new Mac
Heads up: currently impossible to use migration assistant to migrate a . . . After spending many hours with at front line and then three Apple senior technical support staff, I was just informed of a "known issue" that prevents migration from my 2019 MBP with a case sensitive hard drive to a brand new 2024 M3 MacBook Air I have lost close to a day of my life
Migration with one monitor - MacRumors Forums Miration Assistant will never ask you to type anything or click on anything All the monitor will show is a login screen if even that After some time the screen will blank off and go to sleep Of course you could ignore and not use Migration Assistant and set up ujr new mac from scratch, enter you information
Using Apple Migration Assistant to move from Windows to a Mac? After about 35 years I'll be switching my desktop PC environment from Windows to MacOS - moving from an Asus laptop to a MacBook Pro I'm doing some research beforehand and just watched a video on using Apple's Migration Assistant (AMA) to transfer stuff from a Windows PC to a Mac and while it
Bare metal re-install, Time Machine backup grayed out in Migration . . . Sonoma installed and then during first setup phase Migration Assistant asked if I wanted to migrate data I connected my Time Machine disk, which M A recognized I selected the Time Machine volume and on the next screen the backup session I had performed appeared in a list However it was grayed out and the continue button was grayed out as well
Cables for migration assistant - MacRumors Forums Hello, I plan to use migration assistant to transfer about 100GB of data from my old mac to new If I use this method, I understand you can use thunderbolt to transfer I was going to buy a thunderbolt 3 wire but noted that actually my old mac, a late 2013 MBP has thunderbolt 2 Can I
Windows Migration Assistant Upgraded for macOS Sonoma 14. 4 The assistant transfers users' contacts, calendars, email accounts, and more from a Windows machine and migrates the data to the appropriate places in macOS Version 2 4 5 0 remains available for users whose Mac is running macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, or a version of macOS Sonoma earlier than 14 4