migration assistant

I have what seems to be an unusual question, probably could use a little help. I upgraded from an M1 MBP in January to a M3 MBP. I wanted to simply drag everything over from either the old MBP, Time Machine, or a different external SSD, but it seemed to not be doing what I wanted, so I...

So, basically i connected my two M1 macbooks with the cable to transfer the data with Migration Assistant. At first look, it seemed fine, but then looking at certain system settings, wasn't everything synched, and when i look at the space usage it doesn't match with the macbook from which i...

Hi everyone, - STOLEN MAC : MacBook Pro 16″ 2019: macOS 14.1.2 - NEW MAC : MacBook Pro 13″ 2019: macOS 14.4 I have 2 different hard disks with backups made with Time Machine of the stolen mac. I'm trying to recover it completely on the new mac Initially I tried with "Recovery Assistant". But...

How do I move all my emails to a new Mac? I have 5 IMAP mail accounts, iCloud, Gmail, and Hotmail as well as over a hundred folders with saved emails "On My Mac". Probably over 100K emails. I don't think I can't use Migration Assistant since I've already set up the new Mac manually with...

I’m trying to migrate one user from my old Mac Pro to my new Mac Studio. When I connect both Mac via Ethernet, Migration Assistant stays stuck on “checking Mac Pro” for hours. Apple says it should take a few minutes. I then made a clone of the Mac Pro drive and connected it to the Mac Studio...

I'm waiting for delivery on a new M1 MBA. I currently have accounts on an M1 iMac and a 2019 Intel iMac. I set up the Intel iMac as a new machine (long story) and migrated from the M1 iMac. This seemed to go well, but was mysteriously incomplete. Some applications weren't moved (I'm assuming...

I have a 2012 iMac that I am soon to replace with a M2 Mac Mini. I, back up my iMac with CCC and have been wondering how I'm going to get the data to the new setup. I have partitioned the HD on my iMac, one partition for me as the User and the other for my wife. The only thing she has on her...

I tried to use the Migration Assistant on my new MBP, but it froze in the middle. I'm not sure how to proceed, and I'm beginning to think that the Migration Assistant messed up a bunch of things. I read somewhere that if I attempt to restart the MA, it will duplicate the user accounts. At this...

I'm in the process of setting up a new Mac without Migration Assistant. I've been looking for a method to locate the email addresses I've added to Apple Mail's Blocked Senders list so I can back them up and then restore on the new Mac.🤞 Unfortunately, the luxurious feature to export or copy...

Any experts in migrating from an ancient MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 with Sierra OS....) into Mac Studio (current)? What will be the best way? Can I use the Migration Assistance even though the old MacBook Pro is on Sierra? Would my MacBook Pro backup work? Shall I just copy my documents and...

hi I buy m1 pro 16 MacBook and now I'm ready to migration Mac(m1 13) to m1 pro 16 MacBook. but I concerns about the AlDente when I used on my previous 13 inch MacBook Pro. I'm usually use clamshell mode, so I only limit charge and I'm not calibration about battery. so I worried about when I...

I just got my brand new 2021 MacBook Pro with M1 Max, 64 GB RAM, 8 TB SSD. I’ve got Migration Assistant running copying my old 2009 MacBook Pro, 2TB hard drive to it (8 GB RAM, El Capitan OS) I’ve plugged them into each other with a Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter plugged into Thunderbolt...

I bought a 2015 MacBook Air that is running El Capitan. I can not get the migration assistant to work with my PC running Windows 10. I downloaded the proper version of the migration assistant, got my PC running in safe mode with internet on. My MacBook is spinning waiting for the PC to be ready...

Hi guys. I am planning to switch to Apple Silicon Mac from my Intel Mac. I plan to migrate my data using Migration Assistant or Time Machine backup. My question is how will natively supported apps be migrated to Apple Silicon? Will I need to do it manually? By deleting Intel versions and...

Hello, please can you suggest me what is the best way I can fix a huge mess that happened when a very incompetent shop migrated the data from the hard drive of the old broken laptop to the new M1? (macbookair 8GB Ram, 512GB) What happened: old laptop was already messed up by someone who...

I just upgraded to a base model MacBook Air M1 from a 12" MacBook Retina, both with 256 GB's of storage. I used Migration Assistant to transfer my data from Mac-to-Mac and I now have an extra 40 GB's of used space on the new Mac. Has anyone else had this issue? If so, how did you solve?

Currently running Catalina on a MBP 2019 with the intent to migrate to an M1 Air very soon. Should I upgrade my Catalina MBP to Big Sur before doing Migration Assistant to the new M1 or will Migration Assistant on the M1 work ok moving data from a Catalina machine?

Hi, I have Office for Mac 2016 on a MacBook that is dying. I migrated the software to my new MacBook. I have the product key, which is valid. Is there a way to enter the product key directly and bypass Microsofts process? Or is there a way to move some sort of keychain files to activate the...

I just setup my first Mac —a 13-inch MacBook Pro. During the setup process I used Migration Assistant to transfer my iTunes music from a Windows PC. All the files and playlists were transferred, but it seems they were not transferred correctly. The iTunes Music Media folder location on my PC is...

Recently my MacBook Pro got broken, model A1278, mid 2012. There is something with the logic board and it needs to be replaced. Now I'm thinking about buying a brand new one and there is something that concerns me. HDD is still working, meaning that I can still use it and transfer all the data...