when and when not to use migration assistance - MacRumors Forums
Jan 1, 2017 · 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 …
Opencore Legacy Patcher vs. Migration Assistant
Mar 17, 2023 · 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 …
Heads up: currently impossible to use migration assistant to migrate a ...
Nov 19, 2024 · 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 …
Migration Assistant not using Thunderbolt between new M4 MBP and …
Nov 5, 2023 · 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 …
Time Machine restore - is migration assistant the only option?
Nov 23, 2021 · The way to restore now (Monterey, Big Sur, maybe Catanina) is to load the OS (via recovery) then use Migration Assistant to restore all the non-OS stuff (into the APFS Data Volume) …
All files locked after migration...please help! - MacRumors Forums
Jan 17, 2024 · Migration assistant from pc to mac is suicide...delete all the files you migrated over. buy another external drive, format it, then drag all your wanted files from old drive to new drive.
Bare metal re-install, Time Machine backup grayed out in Migration ...
Jan 6, 2025 · 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 …
Cables for migration assistant - MacRumors Forums
Nov 9, 2009 · 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 …
Migration assistant over thunderbolt? - MacRumors Forums
Jul 21, 2014 · So, question for those who have just migrated To their new m1. Has apple Fixed the migration assistant problem? For the past few machines, target disk mode runs dog slow (like usb 2 …
mysterious behavior of Migration Assistant (cannot find the other Mac)
Dec 18, 2009 · The Migration Assistant on the Studio just refuses to show the MBP for migration. At the end, I backed up the system and user data of the MBP in an external disk with Time Machine.