Hi, A couple of notes here. If you used Migration Assistant, all applications, documents and data, whether stored locally or within your iCloud Drive are migrated to the new Mac. With your older Mac on High Sierra, this would still be the case. Yes, going from an Intel Mac to an M1 Mac has caused a few people some problems with voice transfer, but if you use Alex, this is not an issue.
The benefit to using the Migration Assistant, is that all license keys and such are transferred over as well and can save huge amounts of time as opposed to re-installation of such things. The drawbacks are that any problems you might have had on the older system can potentially be migrated over as well. While starting from scratch does have numerous benefits from this sort of prospective, I can also tell you that I’ve migrated machines from one to the other using Migration Assistant directly from the old Mac, and/or from Time Machine backups with no issues for probably the last seven or eight MacOS iterations. The suggestion of the cable for migration would improve the speed of migration from one Mac to another, but you may find this to be a bit of a challenge when migrating from such an old machine as a 2010 Mini. This is due to the need for adaptors to make the connection directly from the Mini to a USB-C Mac. Any time you can use a wired connection instead of a wireless connection will improve the speed of the migration, although having to purchase cables and adaptors for this one time transfer may be less desirable. Wireless migration is definitely possible, albeit rather slow. In the end, I’m not really recommending any of the approaches, just giving you some more food for thought. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Dec 5, 2021, at 11:53, dan d. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is a direct connect mode between mac machines. Using a thunderbolt > port on each a cable lets one have the host machine access the hard > drive of the other as though it is just another drive on the host machine. I > suggesst you go to an apple store or phone apple disability > support on this. > > On Sat, 4 Dec 2021, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > >> >> while I'm at it, at what point should I deauthorize my old Mac? Before or >> after the transfer? Should I use wifi or cable? >> On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 10:12:53 PM UTC-6 Kevin Gibbs wrote: >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> My new MBP should be arriving on Tuesday. I???ll be replacing my 2010 Mac >>> mini with this killer box. What???s the best way to migrate all the data >>> from >>> one machine to the other. I have TM on the Mac mini and I have a pretty >>> decent wifi situation here. The Mac mini runs High Sierra. The new box runs >>> Monterey, I presume. I???m imagining that I should be able to get everything >>> down to the new MBP by signing into iCloud with my credentials and having >>> everything populate that way except for the documents folder and certain >>> other apps like Sibelius, Komplete Kontrol and other Music specific apps >>> which would have to be installed separately from the wireless iCloud >>> migration. Similarly, I imagine the contents of my Documents folder would >>> have to be moved by way of an intermediate portable drive. Am I on the >>> right track or completely messing up? >>> >>> Thanks for any guidance. It???s been ten years since I faced this sort of >>> thing. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kevin >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > ent- > XR > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/ea7db035-d66c-7a66-4ad-10485a1e94a%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/3D3D2A85-AEBC-461B-BA14-8FA8B7903AB3%40me.com.
