Q: Manual migration old Mac to new?
HI, can anyone help with a manual migration from my old Mac Mini 1.83ghz / 2 core duo running 10.6.8 to a new IMac 2.8ghz / quad core running El Capitan?
I Don't want to use migration assistance as all my past upgrades have been firewired so I've got loads of unwanted files etc.
Ive read up on it but I'm still confused! so here are my many questions! .....
1. Instructions say to set up an empty user account in set-up assistant, how do I do that?
2. Then to connect both Macs to the external hard drive.. But I have time machine on my external hard drive, can I use that to manually copy between machines?
3. Am I best to use an external hard drive or file sharing?
4. Examples of folders to copy are given, eg: library folder etc, is there anything else I might need?
5. Will all my files open like old Adobe documents or applications etc?
I'd really appreciate any and all help as I've never done anything like this before! I've had the new IMac a week but don't want to start it up to avoid set-up assistant starting!
Thanks to anyone who can help!
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), To IMac 2.8 ghz El Capitan
Posted on May 10, 2016 1:50 AM
I would just use Migration Assistant/Setup Assistant and select what items you want to migrate.
Note if you do it after (Migrations Assistant) you installed and setup the new Mac the migrated stuff will in a new users account, the one you created during the Migration. To not create a new account yo have to use Setup Assistant during initial setup of the new Mac.
Also see:
Move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support
OS X: Manually migrating data from another Mac - Apple Support
Posted on May 10, 2016 5:43 AM