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If I migrate my old MacAir to my new one, will absolutely EVERYTHING from the old show up in the new and will the desktop look exactly the same?
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iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 18
Yes. That's the idea. It has always worked for me, but of course I don't know how old your present MacBook Air is, or what its desktop looks like. In any event you're doing it right.
This migration is usually quite transparent, but there are some very old MacBook Air models, and some very old apps…
The stuff that won’t work well on newer macOS includes 32-bit apps, such as when moving from macOS 10.14 and earlier, and those apps that need now-deprecated kext support, and such.
Very old Microsoft Office (versions prior to 2016) won’t come across either, but the old Office files and documents will. The Office apps prior to 2016 are 32-bit apps.
The existing MacBoor Air and its contents are not modified, so you’ll still have recourse; all of that is still available, should you need to resolve something (not) on the new Mac. That can include a second migration, if you want.
How to migrate data from old MacBook Air to new MacBook Air?
