I don’t know whether you stored your Desktop and Documents directories in iCloud on the old machine, but you may wish to do so on the new one. Details are at https://support.apple.com/en-us/109344
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Frank Ventura <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 09:19 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New M4 Air Arriving Friday; Any Migration Assistant Advice? I have used the migration assistant. One caveat that it will assign a temporary password to your user account. The temp password is shown on the migration assistant on the target (new) Mac. Make sure you write it down with the correct capitalization. > On Mar 23, 2025, at 7:45 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I decided to go for a new M4 Air, trading in my not really all that old > M2 Pro. > > The one spec that pushed me to the store was weight. I was surprised > that the heft of each machine seemed about the same as I held one in > each hand. By the published specs the difference is about 25% less for > the Air: 1.24 Kg as opposed to 1.6 Kg for the M2. > > I asked for 32Gb which resulted in a special order. I also bumped up to > 10 cores and 10 GPUs. > > For perhaps the first time in life I did NOT bump up the internal SSD. > I'm going with 512 Gb. After all, there's always iCloud! > > I'm wondering whether anyone has advice migrating my applications and > data. Is it a fraught process with things to be aware of? Should I > perhaps just have the staff at my local store do the job? After all, I'm > trading in my M2. > > FYI: Total out of pocket after trade in should come around $550. That > also was compelling. > > Best, > Janina > > -- > > Janina Sajka (she/her/hers) > Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > Linux Foundation Fellow > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors-2/ > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/Z9_0aVsu0dRVWVUu%40rednote.net. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7BB56A29-7826-4730-8E60-CFD2B83573D2%40littlebreezes.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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/PH7PR20MB5307BE91AB14E8A641720207CFA52%40PH7PR20MB5307.namprd20.prod.outlook.com.
