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    From jeremy@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 3 08:37:07 2023
    Hi just contemplating (i.e. been tempted by...) a new MacBook

    I am familiar with replacing iphones & ipads - the icloud backup & restore to new device works like a charm.

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as painless as for the phones & tablets (I realise it's a completely different MO). Will everything be copied or are there gotchas of which the user needs to be aware?

    I read up on the process here
    https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204350


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  • From Sara Merriman@21:1/5 to jeremy on Wed May 3 09:57:55 2023
    On 3 May 2023 at 09:37:07 BST, "jeremy" <jeremy0505@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi just contemplating (i.e. been tempted by...) a new MacBook

    I am familiar with replacing iphones & ipads - the icloud backup & restore to new device works like a charm.

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as painless as for the phones & tablets (I realise it's a completely different MO). Will everything be copied or are there gotchas of which the user needs to be aware?

    I read up on the process here
    https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204350


    ta
    j

    I use it all the time at work when moving users to new machines. User names
    and passwords don't carry over, but that's the only gotcha I can think of.
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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to jeremy on Wed May 3 09:24:14 2023
    jeremy <jeremy0505@gmail.com> wrote:
    Hi just contemplating (i.e. been tempted by...) a new MacBook

    I am familiar with replacing iphones & ipads - the icloud backup & restore to new device works like a charm.

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as painless as for the phones & tablets (I realise it's a completely different MO). Will everything be copied or are there gotchas of which the user needs to be aware?

    I read up on the process here
    https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204350

    No particular problems here other than it taking ages (as expected). You
    need to be careful if you’ve already setup a user on the new Mac - it’s explained in the process doc you quoted.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Joerg Lorenz@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 3 11:51:11 2023
    Am 03.05.23 um 10:37 schrieb jeremy:
    Hi just contemplating (i.e. been tempted by...) a new MacBook

    I am familiar with replacing iphones & ipads - the icloud backup & restore to new device works like a charm.

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as painless as for the phones & tablets (I realise it's a completely different MO). Will everything be copied or are there gotchas of which the user needs to be aware?

    It is even more simple. Keep the new and the old Mac close to each other
    and have the medium with the profiles/accounts (time machine) ready. The
    rest will be explained to you. Depending on the quantity of data it will
    take between 15 minutes and let's say 2 h of which all the time is
    basically used to transfer the user-data.


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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to nospam on Wed May 3 11:22:26 2023
    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <Deq4M.4122866$nwq3.1642425@fx13.ams4>, Sara Merriman <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as


    I use it all the time at work when moving users to new machines. User names >> and passwords don't carry over, but that's the only gotcha I can think of.

    yes they do.

    Mine certainly carried over when I had to restore (don’t ask!) my MBA a few weeks ago.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk on Wed May 3 07:15:41 2023
    In article <Deq4M.4122866$nwq3.1642425@fx13.ams4>, Sara Merriman <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as


    I use it all the time at work when moving users to new machines. User names and passwords don't carry over, but that's the only gotcha I can think of.

    yes they do.

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  • From Joerg Lorenz@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 3 16:18:07 2023
    Am 03.05.23 um 11:57 schrieb Sara Merriman:
    On 3 May 2023 at 09:37:07 BST, "jeremy" <jeremy0505@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi just contemplating (i.e. been tempted by...) a new MacBook

    I am familiar with replacing iphones & ipads - the icloud backup & restore to
    new device works like a charm.

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as painless
    as for the phones & tablets (I realise it's a completely different MO). Will >> everything be copied or are there gotchas of which the user needs to be aware?

    I read up on the process here
    https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204350


    ta
    j

    I use it all the time at work when moving users to new machines. User names and passwords don't carry over, but that's the only gotcha I can think of.

    User names and passwords are part of a profile (and the keyring) and
    they are moved over.

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  • From Sara Merriman@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 3 18:08:02 2023
    On 3 May 2023 at 12:22:26 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    In article <Deq4M.4122866$nwq3.1642425@fx13.ams4>, Sara Merriman
    <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as


    I use it all the time at work when moving users to new machines. User names >>> and passwords don't carry over, but that's the only gotcha I can think of. >>
    yes they do.

    Mine certainly carried over when I had to restore (don’t ask!) my MBA a few weeks ago.

    Sorry - should have said don't ALWAYS carry over. I've found that some do and some don't.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk on Wed May 3 14:24:37 2023
    In article <6qx4M.3604927$US27.155225@fx01.ams4>, Sara Merriman <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

    Does anyone have experience with Migration Assistant? Would it be as


    I use it all the time at work when moving users to new machines. User
    names
    and passwords don't carry over, but that's the only gotcha I can think of.

    yes they do.

    Mine certainly carried over when I had to restore (don¹t ask!) my MBA a few weeks ago.

    Sorry - should have said don't ALWAYS carry over. I've found that some do and some don't.

    they always carry over, unless specifically de-selected prior to
    migration.

    <https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_ US/macos/macos-ventura-migration-assistant-info-to-transfer.png>

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  • From Joerg Lorenz@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 3 21:39:48 2023
    Am 03.05.23 um 20:08 schrieb Sara Merriman:
    On 3 May 2023 at 12:22:26 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
    Mine certainly carried over when I had to restore (don’t ask!) my MBA a few
    weeks ago.

    Sorry - should have said don't ALWAYS carry over. I've found that some do and some don't.

    Then it was your decision during the set-up-process. You must have
    deslected a few things in the migration assistant.

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