I'm buying a new MacBook and don't know how to transfer all of my data from my old iMac and old MacBook. Can someone walk me through this?
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
Apple's guidance: Transfer to a new Mac with Migration Assistant - Apple Support
Apple's guidance: Transfer to a new Mac with Migration Assistant - Apple Support
You have some options, but generally it's all or nothing. You can elect not to migrate all users, settings and such. If you start the process and realize you're going to move more than you want to, you can stop it before transfer starts.
The stage "Select the Information to transfer" has your options. The little ">" indicates you can expand that selection to further filter.
If you want full control of data migration, copy what you want to move to an external drive then copy to the new Mac's respective folders from them external..
Thank you. Will this work if I want to move only SOME of the data on my old Mac, or only to move the whole hard drive?
Thank you again for the straightforward answer. That helps me greatly! 👊🏻
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