After migrating from old Mac air to new Mac air can I drag files to trash on the old Mac desktop without affecting the files on the other devices?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 6:12 PM

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Kappy

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Oct 26, 2020 8:07 PM in response to Mag1981

Yes.

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After migrating from old Mac air to new Mac air can I drag files to trash on the old Mac desktop without affecting the files on the other devices?

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