Drag and Drop files and documents to new Mac

Hello A1ps,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities! It sounds like you need help with migrating data. We completely understand why you'd reach out, and are happy to help.

Dragging and dropping your files will work with getting files over, however you may want to use iTunes Sync library for your music, as iCloud Photos as well.

This will ensure that your music and Photo Library is the same across all devices:

Use Sync Library to access your music library across your devices - Apple Support

Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support

Please have a look and let us know if this helps! 

Cheers! 

Just as long as you place these in exact the same place, it will probably work.

But I'd really use Migration Assistant, taking care to chose ONLY the user accounts.

It ensures that not just the photos and music are transferred correctly, but your preferences too.

And you can easily delete other documents if you don't want them.

NOTE: I certainly do NOT recommend that you migrate applications, or settings.

As for which apps will work on your new Mac download and run the free GO64 app. All macOS systems since Catalina require apps to be 64 bit. The GO64 will tell you which apps are 64, which are 32 and which have parts that ar 32. This will tell you which apps you'll need to update or replace with alternatives.

I believe the release of macOS High Sierra was the death knell for Final Cut Studio in 2017. The current Final Cut Pro 10.6.5 requires macOS 11.5.1 or later.

A1ps wrote:

A little gutted about this. But hey, I've just had a Black Friday offer from Adobe for their full suite of applications. Maybe time for me to try editing on Premiere :-)

And pay them every month for the "privilege"...

There are alternatives, you know...

Premiere? Final Cut Pro is a one time paid application; DaVinci Resolve free version is probably just as powerful, if not more.

Photoshop? There's Affinity Photo, and Pixelmator Pro - both one time purchases, very much built for the mac, and support import and export in Photoshop format

Illustrator? Affinity Designer

and more

There are also alternatives for Microsoft Applications, and free too... Pages, Keynote, Numbers are all free as is the LibreOffice suite.

I have been using Final Cut Pro since 2011 and never had to pay an extra cent since then. If had gone with Premiere, it would have cost me dearly.

I'm still trying out the demo but what I don't like about it is the text in the GUI is so very small, like for the tools. My eyesight is an issue for me so I need apps what have large type in the GUI.

You can change the Font from "Default" to "Large" in Settings->User Interface; and you can adjust the greyness of the background and the brightness of text. In my short test, I find that it can make quite a difference. In fact, I don't remember an application that provides this much customization of the interface.

I found that the UI Font size didn't take when I clicked on Large the first time. That does help a bit.

I could use this text to be a bit larger also:

Thanks for the feedback. Got what I missed the first time thru, i.e. the UI Font Size.