Hi - trying to use Migration Assistant to set up my new MacBook Air M3. Keep getting message that there is not enough space but my old machine had 128GB storage and the new one has 256GB. Can't understand what the problem could be.
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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7
So - it seems that the Migration Assistant was picking up everything I had stored on my OneDrive even though it was in the cloud and not stored on my Mac. I had to unlink the OneDrive from my Mac, do the transfer and then set up OneDrive on the new machine. Apple hadn't come across this before so after they had checked everything else they thought it could be down to the OneDrive.
All good now!
So - it seems that the Migration Assistant was picking up everything I had stored on my OneDrive even though it was in the cloud and not stored on my Mac. I had to unlink the OneDrive from my Mac, do the transfer and then set up OneDrive on the new machine. Apple hadn't come across this before so after they had checked everything else they thought it could be down to the OneDrive.
All good now!
You did it right, so much for that. Contact Apple. Assistance with setting up a new Mac is included with its purchase price anyway and they enjoy doing that.
Start here: Official Apple Support. Let us know what they find out because it isn't making sense to me either.
Did you already configure it when you received it, and then used Migration Assistant to transfer the previous Mac's content? That's the only explanation that comes to mind.
Hi - no I did nothing to it - just switched it on and followed instructions. Was that not the right thing to do?
Thanks - I will!
Migration Assistant says not enough space on MacBook Air M3
