The Mac Migration Assistant makes it easy to transfer all your files from one Mac to another. For the rest of us, who just want to get up and running as quickly as possible, there’s Apple’s Migration Assistant. Some people, of course, like starting from scratch on a brand new machine. It’s not just documents, of course, it’s applications, settings files, caches and everything else that’s involved in setting up your Mac just the way you want it. But if there’s one thing that takes the edge off the thrill, it’s the prospect of transferring files from your old Mac to the new one. But to help you do it all by yourself, we’ve gathered our best ideas and solutions below.įeatures described in this article refer to the MacPaw site version of CleanMyMac X.īuying a new Mac is hugely exciting. So I wonder if this iMac just has issues and isn't showing me the icon.So here's a tip for you: Download CleanMyMac to quickly solve some of the issues mentioned in this article.

like clicking on them in a new Finder window. I have to do odd little rituals to make the icons appear. Sometimes when I transfer files to the desktop for instance, it seems as though they're not there. One potential issue for this could be that this iMac (the good computer) is older and I notice a few odd things. It DOES recognize my external hard drive that I bought from the Mac store though - so I know it can read external inputs. It doesn't appear in finder when I connect the two using the Thunderbolt cable.

I bought a cheaper thunderbolt cable elsewhere and am trying to do this, HOWEVER, I can't get my iMac (the good computer) to recognize my laptop's hard drive (the bad computer). (Luckily I was given a free older iMac from work recently.) It was going to take too long to transfer the rest, so I said I'll do it on my own at home. So I have a few files transferred over, which is great. I bought an external hard drive at the Mac store and the guy started to do this transfer at the shop for an hour or so. He also said that I could still run the fried laptop in Target Disk Mode and transfer over my files to a new computer (an iMac) using a Thunderbolt cable. I took it to the Genius Bar, and he said they no longer can repair it. The graphics card is kaput, and apparently there are issues with the hard drive too. I had a mac laptop that fried itself a few weeks ago. The good computer is Mid 2011 iMac Intel 21.5'. The old (bad) laptop is a 2011 MacBook Pro.

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