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Migrating From 2018 MacBook Pro

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Migrating From 2018 MacBook Pro

arftech99

macrumors regular

Original poster

Oct 29, 2015 MD, USA
What’s the best way to migrate my data including music files from my 2018 machine to my new M2 machine?

iMacDragon

macrumors 68020
Oct 18, 2008 2,035 UK
Thunderbolt cable in theory should be the most efficient, but I gather getting it to actually work has been known to be troublesome. A full time machine backup and restoring from it in migration assistant may be the simplest/fastest.

Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009 25,708 10,589
Do you keep an external backup drive?
Either time machine or perhaps CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper?

Having one will make things EASY.
CCC or SD will be EASIEST.

I believe you can connect both old and new Macs together using a USBc cable, and it may work, but the most reliable way (in my opinion) is by using an external backup drive.
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dcmike

macrumors member
Jan 18, 2009 DC
I used an external SSD HD with Time Machine backups from my mid-2018 Macbook Pro and it worked without any issues. Initially told me it was going to take about 6 hours - then it completed the job in about 30 minutes.

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