Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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Fox in reply to @mmccarthy

I've not done it before so I may well be speaking out my arse, but are you able to backup the old one to an external drive using time machine and restore the new one from that backup?

Possibly too late now, but Migration assistant is a bit shit @beseku

Personally I would back up to an external drive as @mmccarthy suggests using SuperDuper! then restore that to the new one. However you'd have to use a bootable USB with MacOS and SuperDuper! on it because you can't wipe the boot drive.

This may sound like a big faff but it's less faff than migration assistant fucking it up. Ask me how I know...

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beseku in reply to @Fox

Ha, too late!

I ran migration assistant last night and it seemed to work. only ball-ache was setting ups he new Mac once just to update to the same version of Ventura so it would work.

Not seen any issues yet, and a bit mindblown that even my development stuff, (Homebrew, Hugo, Ruby on Rails, Postgres) all seems to be working without any intervention. Only thing I actually had to do was authenticate with Lightroom and with my email servers.

Thanks @kboy and @mmccarthy for the tips.

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