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How do I connect old

How to connect old & new Mac with ethernet cable to migrate data?

Mac Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on Apr 19, 2020 3:39 PM

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Posted on Apr 19, 2020 3:49 PM

This document lists the options available for moving from one Mac to another. There’s a section there on connecting and setting up via Ethernet.


How to move your content to a new Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

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Apr 19, 2020 7:06 PM in response to djosl

Just connect the two computers with the cable, then you have to put one of them in “target disk mode”. The section titled “Connect the computers to each other” has a link to another article explaining how to do that. Here I copied that link for you: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462


Please, however, read the first linked article carefully. There are other, easier, ways of accomplishing the migration, such as over Wi-Fi, or from TimeMachine backup.



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