Unable to use Migration app to new system due to size and lack of HD space on new system.
Hello and thank you for any help
I am running a late 2015 Mac with an external SSD set up as the boot operating system and startup disk, running that boot and startup disc on an external greatly increased my system speed over the years.
I recently upgraded to a Mac studio but didn’t spend the money on a large enough internal hard drive and I’m really regretting it
I removed all the large files I can think of off of my existing system, music, movies, photographs and put them all on an external drive but when I try to do the migration assistant it still shows my existing system as having about a terabyte of data in my library folder… I don’t know what it is or where it could be at this point. When I click get info on my library folder in the SSD external boot drive it says that folder is only 2 GB, I also checked the folder of the McIntosh internal hard drive as well.
I’ve been struggling to create the same type of external SSD boot Drive system for my new Mac Studio. If that’s a reasonable option. Or wonder if a symbolic folder system set up would be better?
Does anyone have a suggestion how I can either run the new Mac studio off of an external SSD boot and hard drive OR set the new system hold the majority of data on an external?
I’ve spent days trying to figure this out on my own and I’m at a total loss. I’m open to any solution
Thank you for your time!!
iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.7