I just lately transferred the profile I take advantage of from my outdated Mac to a brand new one.
Due to Migration Assistant and Thunderbolt the whole lot went easily and quick. That’s till I realised all of the “rubbish” that went alongside.
After I checked by terminal what the foundation folder (that’s ~/) contained with (ls -la), I noticed that every one the hidden information went alongside. That’s in all probability anticipated. And I do not appear to have the selection to switch simply the information that’s contained within the folders/directories of ~/ (that’s, the content material of Desktop, Paperwork, and so on.), however not the content material of ~/Library and different stuff I may not concentrate on.
Due to this fact I made a decision to erase the profile and do the switch manually, however I quickly had 2 primary points:
- I can handle to switch some knowledge, however not different (i.e.,
Photographs Library.photoslibrary, it doesn’t matter what I did even following this Apple KB) - Some critical “rubbish” was transferred too that I couldn’t find after the deletion of the profile it doesn’t matter what I did (see this SE thread for that concern and what I ended up doing).
I suppose that the difficulty ensuing from level 1. comes from the truth that though the profile names are the identical in a single pc and the opposite, their IDs or fingerprint, or no matter doesn’t match and due to this fact prohibits the switch (it may also be as a result of I clearly lack some data).
Due to this fact, my questions are:
- Does Migration Assistant permit, in a technique or one other, to decide on what knowledge is transferred from a Person profile?
- If this isn’t potential, is there one other technique to switch the information with out getting blocked (like what occurred with
Photographs Library.photoslibrary)?
Programs used
- “Outdated” pc: macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, 2.8 GHz, Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM
- “New” pc: macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Apple M3 Max, 128 GB RAM
P.S.: Transferring the Person Profiles with Thunderbolt the practically 2 TB of knowledge from the “outdated” pc took 2-3 hours with Migration Assistant. Transferring <100 GB of knowledge from one profile to a different by dragging and dropping took additionally 2-3 hours. The distinction is hanging!