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Migration Assistant - From internal to external drive

Is it possible to use migration assistant in a ‘non traditional’ direction ie from the internal drive to an external drive rather than the other way round ?


What I’m planning on doing is formatting a new external SSD drive and then in recovery mode install a fresh installation of Catalina to the SSD and then use migration assistant to migrate my contents - apps and home folder, from the internal spinner to the external SSD

Posted on Oct 4, 2020 5:30 PM

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You should be able to migrate from any startup drive to any other, assuming the destination version is equal to or later than the source.

Posted on Oct 4, 2020 6:42 PM

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Migration Assistant - From internal to external drive

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