What SSD disk speed is enough for FCP and migrating to my new iMac

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

If you had a much older system, it would make sense to do an intermediate upgrade, but from Mojave to Monterey you can safely go directly. And yes, all the iTunes stuff should automatically go to the correct applications Music, TV, Podcasts...

Well, it went safely. Looks like the movies, TV shows, and movies made it over okay. Except that one of the movies, and every TV episode I've tried so far, takes 10 seconds to start! Could be an account problem. I know I bought at least Clockwork Orange with my support communities account! Looks like the TV episodes (at least Star Trek TOS) might have a similar problem. I had trouble just getting them to play at all and had similar error messages that I got with Clockwork Orange on my previous Mac. But that this time I was playing the TV ep from a playlist.

Music seems okay, except that it still takes 4 seconds for any changes in the EQ panel to take effect! Got the new super-duper, super-fast, etc., M1 chip, and it still takes 4 seconds for something Garage Band can do in less than 1.

My TM backups are now usable only via the Finder. Monterey refuses to have anything to do with them! My only backups now are done over Backblaze. Yeah, nice. Either I have to trash one of my TM backups or buy a new big hard drive.

OK. I have everything on a 4 TB external SSD. But there's approx. 2.5 TB of data on it. But the new Mac has a 1 TB drive. So if I move the Movies folder contents to outside my top user directory, leaving Other Files and Folders will skip the Movies? That would be great. I wouldn't have to move them off the drive.

I assume the Trash won't get copied over. Right?

So what does the System and Network option do? I have no network.

Thanks for your rapid replies!

1133 GB.

Clone. I restored one of my TM backups to a new 4 TB SSD. It is external. What happened was that the hard-drive portion of my Fusion drive died. So I have to boot from an external drive.

I don't want to migrate from a TM backup. Why? Because when I did that to set up a new boot disk, some of the Movies, Music, and I think also Pictures folders were not restored properly. Many files were missing. It took a some work to make it right! I'd have to hunt for the details.

No. It didn't even offer such. The help says that TM backups don't get upgraded. The only way I see now to inherit it is to use the tmutil command (see below). I can't find it now, but I recall reading yesterday that it might have worked if I had upgraded from Mojave to Big Sur (the highest I can go on my old Mac) first. (I need to get some more cables to try it on my other local

TM drive. Later today, I hope!)

I ran Enter Time Machine, but it only showed the Now screen. No, sir, it didn't like it!

Now, I can try that tmutil stuff, but if you don't get the command(s) exactly right, you end up doing a full backup. I know this from when I tried to recover from my internal hard drive dying. I even did an experiment by excluding the Movies directory. Looked liked it worked, but then it copied the entire Movies folder contents when I removed it from the exclusion list! Oh, well.

I'm afraid it's either wipe or buy.

Oh, BTW, Neat Video didn't make it over. I'll have to contact them. I need versions 4.8.5 and 5.1.2 to make my

TGR project work! And it doesn't appear to be on their site. And even if they are, would they even work on the M1?

Well, it's too late to reply to Luis Sequeira in the thread

"Q:

Will Final Cut 10.4.6 still work after migration from Mojave to a new M1 Mac?"

in which he wrote:

"Can you elaborate on why you want that specific version? [10.4.6]"

Well, one reason is so that I can look at settings and such from the Neat Video plugins I've used, and maybe do a second round one day on my main movie, The Great Race. Well, I still have my old Mac, and can boot Mojave with FCP 10.4.6 on it. I still have the Neat video DMG files, but they have Intel in their names. Maybe they will run under Rosetta? Any harm in trying? Yes, I'm paranoid about breaking things. But it happens too often, and it's hard and time-consuming to fix things. E.g., I have had several hard drives and one SSD drive go bad (got really, really slow or outright died!) this year. The two slow ones, I was trying to use as external startup drives when my internal drive died. And most TV shows and movies on the new TV app take 10 seconds to load (support ticket open), and TM refuses to have anything to do with my old TM drives. So I ask stupid questions sometimes.

Michel Boissonneault wrote:

Empty the trash first….

Thanks!