Duplicate Desktops across network

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Duplicate Desktops across network

I have peculiar problem. I have MacPro (late 2013). It's wired into my time machine which in turn is hard wired to my google fiber router (via a hub). Recently, I purchased a new Macpro hooked it up, including to the time machine. I brought up Migrate Assistant and started to migrate from the old to the new. I got a message that it couldn't find my late 2013. and Migrate Assistant quit.

But somehow it did copy the desktop of my old Mac Pro to my new one. I've since moved the old MP to another location. But I can create a folder or document on one and it will appear on the other.

I have tried reinstalling the OS (the recovery partition on the new MacPro disappeared).

I think this is interfering with other elements - example, Sharepoint on the new one can't find folders on the 2013.

TIA.

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Posted on Jun 6, 2020 2:49 PM

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Jun 6, 2020 5:59 PM in response to rcw_Austin

I live in the town just on the other side of Wellesley, in the town where MathWorks has its multiple campuses.

When you link your files to your iCloud account using that feature, they are marked "expendable" on your Mac, and the Master Copy is stored on your iCloud account.

If you add a new computer to the same iCloud Account, all those files "appear", but take a moment to access while it fetches them off your iCloud.

If Migration Assistant could not find the old computer, it did not move anything.

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rcw_Austin Author

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Jun 6, 2020 3:52 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Not sure what you mean by desktops linked, but the two machines (as well as about a half dozen others) are linked to my iCloud account.

Yes, I think all my machines are "store in iCloud" checked.

btw, noticed on your profile you're in the Boston area. My mothers side lived in Needham. Brother and wife still live on Needham / Wellesley line.

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rcw_Austin Author

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Jun 6, 2020 8:50 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Mathworks - I worked on Macsyma a bit when I was taking symbolic processing course way back when. Put it to use in an economics assignment that ultimately ended up generating something like 120 pages of a min-max expansion. Should have seen the professor's face when brought back the solution.

Well, I was puzzled when I went into MA with a barren desktop, and came out with the desktop of the old machine.

So, how should I delink these things. Don't understand - I haven't had this problem before. Most of the reason I use this has to do with being able to work on documents across different machines and locations.

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Jun 7, 2020 7:04 AM in response to rcw_Austin

If you work from multiple devices and want access to these same documents from each device, you have arrived in heaven, provided: you have enough iCloud storage to maintain everything there, and always have an acceptable Internet connection when you need those files.

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Jun 6, 2020 3:01 PM in response to rcw_Austin

Is your desktops linked through your Apple-ID?

Have you ever invoked the "Store in iCloud" feature mentioned in this article:

How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

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