Re: Any reason not to migrate data to a new Mac using a Time-machine backup rather than having it migrate directly from the old Mac?

Interesting. I'd thought about doing that, but though my recent stuff is stored in iCloud, I have a fair amount of stuff on my Mac from before, so that could end up being sort of time-consuming. Cheers, Donna > On May 4, 2021, at 12:02 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > I prefer to migrate my data m

Re: Any reason not to migrate data to a new Mac using a Time-machine backup rather than having it migrate directly from the old Mac?

I prefer to migrate my data manually rather than using either a Time Machine backup, or the Migration Assistant. This way I know I have transferred only the data and not any of the accumulated garbage from the old Mac. Since I keep most of my files in iCloud drive, this is a very simple underta

Any reason not to migrate data to a new Mac using a Time-machine backup rather than having it migrate directly from the old Mac?

Hi all, I'm excited to say that I'm a proud owner of a new MBA. In the past, I've migrated my data using a time-machine backup, and it seemed to go faster and more smoothly. However, that was several OSes ago, so I thought I'd see what the current thinking about that is. My old Mac is running