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migrating to a smaller hard drive with an external drive?

How do I migrate my iMac to a new Mac mini with a smaller hard drive?


I want to migrate my current iMac (3TB fusion drive with 1TB available) to a new M2 Mac Mini with 128GB internal storage plus an external 2TB SSD drive.

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Posted on Jan 21, 2023 7:32 AM

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Posted on Jan 21, 2023 8:55 AM

You can not Migrate.


Setup the new Mac using the same user ID and then manually move your User Files to a Mac formatted external drive.

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migrating to a smaller hard drive with an external drive?

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