What is the best way to migrate complete data and settings from an unreliable 2012 MacBook Air to a still-in-the-box 2018 Mac mini? Both macs have internal 256 GB SSD. There are Time Machine and Super Duper backups. I will be the technical assistant for my brother in law who owns the macs.
I proposed to use Migration Assistant from Time Machine but this has a complication. The MBA has a 1TB external data drive using symbolic links. Time Machine includes the data drive in its backups to two disks, internal and external on Time Capsule. Can Migration Assistant use Time Machine in this case? If expedient the external TM backup disk can be removed and a new backup made of just the MBA SSD on the TC internal disk. The MBA has bad days when it fails then restarts several times. This has been happening for some months. A direct migration from MBA to Mini would not seem to be feasible. Your help would be appreciated. Regards Alan -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
