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My Macbook is currently operating with High Sierra 10.13.6. I don't have enough hard drive space to upgrade. Will I be safe to migrate everything to my new Macbook without upgrading?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13
If you want to upgrade your mac to a newer OS and you need to make more free space just move items you do not need on a daily basis to an external hard drive. Movies, Images and music usually take up the most room. After confirming that they have successfully copied over to your external drive you can delete them from your mac.
Which mac do you have, model and year, click on the top left and select About This Mac.
The year and model of your mac will govern which OS you can upgrade to.
If you have already bought a new mac then you can use Migration Assistant to migrate your data to the new mac.
Only migrate your personal data, do not migrate any apps as they may not work on the new mac and its newer OS.
New macs do not run 32bit apps, your older mac running macOS High Sierra is more than likely running 32bit apps.
Do not migrate any system or library data from the old mac to the new.
If you want to upgrade your mac to a newer OS and you need to make more free space just move items you do not need on a daily basis to an external hard drive. Movies, Images and music usually take up the most room. After confirming that they have successfully copied over to your external drive you can delete them from your mac.
Which mac do you have, model and year, click on the top left and select About This Mac.
The year and model of your mac will govern which OS you can upgrade to.
If you have already bought a new mac then you can use Migration Assistant to migrate your data to the new mac.
Only migrate your personal data, do not migrate any apps as they may not work on the new mac and its newer OS.
New macs do not run 32bit apps, your older mac running macOS High Sierra is more than likely running 32bit apps.
Do not migrate any system or library data from the old mac to the new.
caryssa161 wrote:
My Macbook is currently operating with High Sierra 10.13.6. I don't have enough hard drive space to upgrade. Will I be safe to migrate everything to my new Macbook without upgrading?
Personally would Not Migrate Everything from Old to New.
1 - High Sierra is supporting 32 and 64 Bit Applications. The New computer probably is the Apple Silicon M CPU running Big Sur or Monterey. Those versions of macOS Only Support Everything 64 Bit and no workarounds
2 - Moving from Intel based CPU to ARMS Apple Silicon must be considered if migrating application, extensions and such Right here are compatibility issues.
3 - Migrating everything from Old to New will effectively migrated any existing Software Issues in High Sierra to the new and otherwise Pristine and Virginal Installation of Big Sur / Monterey
4 - Suggest Migrating only the User Account and nothing else. Documents, pictures etc can be moved over at a later time.
My Macbook is currently operating with High Sierra 10.13.6. I don't have enough hard drive space to upgrade. Will I be safe to migrate everything to my new Macbook without upgrading?
