Phew! Thanks Paul. So I made the right choice by luck! Yes, I seem to have saved 5GB of space. And what a difference a 2017 MBA is, compared to a 2011 one. By far the best keyboard I have ever had on a laptop in the nearly 30 years since my first Apple computer. Nick
> On 15 Sep 2018, at 09:17, 'Paul R Owen' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personally I would use Migration Assistant. Start with a clean install of Mac > OS and leave behind all the rubbish you are likely to have accumulated over > the years, you then get all your documents and settings from Migration > Assistant. > > A restore from SuperDuper would overwrite everything including the Mac OS you > have already installed, also, if your old MacBook uses or needs different > versions of system files to you newer MacBook these would be overwritten and > you may get problems from incompatible system files. SuperDuper is good for > restoring to the same computer. > > SuperDuper is an excellent program I use too, it’s good to see you have at > least two backups. In an emergency you can startup directly from your > SuperDuper backup, without having to restore anything, a great timesaver. > > Paul Owen > >> On 15 Sep 2018, at 06:47, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks Jason. I remembered Migration Assistant and in spite of my best >> intentions to follow your suggestion that has funnelled me down the Time >> Machine route. I’ll do a bit more research and may have another go tomorrow. >> Nick >> >> PS. Sent last night from wrong email address so got rejected. MBA seems to >> be working fine. I will be able to update to 10.14 on this one which I would >> not have been able to do on my previous one. >> >>> On 14 Sep 2018, at 20:51, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 14 Sep 2018, at 20:32, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group wrote: >>> >>>> Or; >>>> If I restore from the bootable Superduper copy would that work better and >>>> overlay everything that’s already on it? >>> >>> I would do that. Saves messing around with user names. >>> >>> cheers >>> Jason >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
