I bought a new iMac (High Sierra) to replace my old iMac from 2013. Migration of my data from the old does not work via WiFi, because I don't have enough space on my new computer. I purchased a cable to connect the two computers. Now I need to know, how do I move the files with this cable?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
If you bought the new 24-in Apple Silicon iMac, you may also want to take a look at Transfer files between a Mac with Apple silicon and another Mac - Apple Support.
It also depends on the answer to BDAqua’s free disk space question.
If you bought the new 24-in Apple Silicon iMac, you may also want to take a look at Transfer files between a Mac with Apple silicon and another Mac - Apple Support.
It also depends on the answer to BDAqua’s free disk space question.
Migration Assistant. For OP's benefit - Move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support.
A cable won't cure the not enough space problem, it would likely speed it up though.
Have you emptied the trash lately?
Look for iOS backups…
/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
OmniDiskSweeper shows you the files on your drive, largest to smallest, and lets you quickly Trash or open them.
https://www.omnigroup.com/more/
Purging local backups
Please note that although this doesn't affect your remote backup from Time Machine, this will get rid of the redundancy (at least until the next Time Machine backup) that a local backup disk will provide. If you need such redundancy or are worried about the recovery of your data then you would be best served to let macOS determine when to purge these files.
Start Terminal from spotlight.
At the terminal type tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates.
Hit enter.
Here, you'll now see a list of all of the locally stored Time Machine backup snapshots stored on your disk.
Next you can remove the snapshots based on their date. I prefer to delete them one at at time. Once my "System" disk usage is at an acceptable level, I stop deleting but you can delete all of them if you want to reclaim all of the disk space.
Back at the terminal, type tmutil deletelocalsnapshots YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS , where will be one of the dates from your backup. This will be in the form of xxx-yy-zz-abcdef. Try to start with the oldest snapshot.
Hit enter.
Repeat for as many snapshot dates as required
http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2018/03/27/cleaning-up-time-machine-local-snapshots.html
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots / # deletes all the snapshots
I misidentified my new computer. Big Sur iMac. My old one has been upgraded to Catalina OS, but it's 13 years old---vintage. Within the year it will officially become "obsolete."
Well how much free & used space on both Macs?
Thanks, a question though, is that needed for Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant to work?
Thanks. :)
How do I migrate my files from old computer to new using a cable. (Because the WiFi says some of the things I need to migrate are too big to do via WiFi.)
