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Setting up/restoring new MBP with OS Catalina on it , with a Mojave backup from old MBP

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Im wanting to restore my new Mac from a Time Machine backup of another Mac through Migration Assistant instead of setting up as new.


its a new MBP , but my last existing time machine backup is to an external drive using 10.14.6 mojave.

I don't really want to update the old MBP to catalina. Has anyone done something like this?

Will it install mojave on the new MBP?

Posted on Oct 17, 2020 8:54 PM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2020 9:47 PM

It's called downgrading, and you must erase the drive beforehand. Please see How to Downgrade from macOS Catalina to Mojave or Earlier.

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