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Migration Assistant is the easiest way to transplant the heart and soul of one Mac to another. While it used to be fragile and frequently failed or required multiple attempts, I’ve found it increasingly reliable in recent years. I’ve used it a few times in the last few months, and it worked with near perfection.

Migration Assistant has improved on the number of ways it lets you connect two Macs, and has become better at using the fastest method of connection. On newer Macs, the best way will always be Thunderbolt-to-Thunderbolt. This requires a Thunderbolt data cable. For somewhat worse but not terrible performance, you can instead use a USB 3.1 or 3.2 cable with USB Type-A or USB-C on both ends.

 

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How to move data to a new MacBook Pro

Apple has a Migration Assistant app to help you move your data to a new MacBook Pro, except it isn't always smooth, isn't always easy — and isn't your only choice.

If only Macs were as easy to transition between as iPhones. When you upgrade an iPhone, you put the new one next to the old and it practically transfers itself. 

With the Mac, it can be close to that, because of Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant. In theory, you run these on both the new and the old Mac, and the only difference is that Setup Assistant appears when you first switch on the new Mac.

If you ignore it and then later decide you want all of your old Mac's data, you need to run Migration Assistant. Either way, it takes a long time.

That's only reasonable, though, since your old MacBook Pro might have a couple of terabytes of data to transfer. But it does take a long time, there are things you can do to speed it up, and unfortunately it isn't always the best option.

 

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