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Migrating from old MacBook Pro (2015) to new MacBook Pro

Migration Assistant still "Starting Up" after an hour and a half?? Transferring via wifi. Is this going to take all week?

MacBook, OS X 10.11

Posted on Oct 13, 2021 11:59 AM

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Posted on Oct 13, 2021 1:10 PM

onmyown wrote:

Migration Assistant still "Starting Up" after an hour and a half?? Transferring via wifi. Is this going to take all week?


Quite possibly.


You are always better off with a cable connection moving large amounts of data.



The most trouble free way to move to a new machine, is using the Setup Assistant on the initial boot of a brand new machine— you have one shot here. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205749


The second best way is use the Migration Assistant.

How to move your content to a new Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

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Oct 13, 2021 1:10 PM in response to onmyown

onmyown wrote:

Migration Assistant still "Starting Up" after an hour and a half?? Transferring via wifi. Is this going to take all week?


Quite possibly.


You are always better off with a cable connection moving large amounts of data.



The most trouble free way to move to a new machine, is using the Setup Assistant on the initial boot of a brand new machine— you have one shot here. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205749


The second best way is use the Migration Assistant.

How to move your content to a new Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

Oct 14, 2021 7:53 AM in response to onmyown

onmyown wrote:

Finally migrated using Time Machine Backup of older mac. Two macs never would communicate. Apple used to be so intuitive. I've been using exclusively mac for over 25 years. I was always able to migrate one laptop to the next with no issues...old and new both had ports that allowed them to connect. Thunderbolt is great, but the non-apple, non-leading edge world still uses other types of connections.



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Oct 14, 2021 7:49 AM in response to leroydouglas

Finally migrated using Time Machine Backup of older mac. Two macs never would communicate. Apple used to be so intuitive. I've been using exclusively mac for over 25 years. I was always able to migrate one laptop to the next with no issues...old and new both had ports that allowed them to connect. Thunderbolt is great, but the non-apple, non-leading edge world still uses other types of connections.

Migrating from old MacBook Pro (2015) to new MacBook Pro

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