Movement your content to a new Mac

Use Migration Assistant to copy all of your documents, apps, user accounts, and settings to a new Mac from another figurer.

MacBook Pro in front of MacBook. Both screens show Migration Assistant app open.

Migration Banana copies all of your files from your old Mac to your new Mac so that you lot don't have to copy them manually.

  • If your files are currently on a PC, follow the PC migration steps instead.
  • If you're moving content from a Time Automobile backup, follow the steps to restore your Mac from a backup instead.

Get set up

  1. Install all available software updates on both computers. If your old Mac isn't using OS X King of beasts or later on, and your new Mac isn't using Os X Mavericks or later, follow the Mountain Lion migration steps instead.
  2. If both computers are using macOS Sierra or later, place them most each other with Wi-Fi turned on. If either 1 is using OS X El Capitan or before, make certain that both are on the aforementioned network.
  3. On your one-time Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, and then click Sharing. Make certain that a proper noun appears in the Computer Name field.
  4. If y'all installed antivirus or firewall software on either Mac, turn that software off until after migration is complete.

Use Migration Banana

Yous're now ready to apply Migration Banana to movement your files from the old Mac to the new one.

On your new Mac

  1. Open up Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Then click Continue.
  2. When Migration Assistant asks yous for permission to brand changes, enter your administrator password, and then click OK.
  3. When asked how you want to transfer your information, select the choice to transfer from a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk. And so click Go on.
    Migration Assistant: How do you want to transfer your information?

On your old Mac

  1. Open up Migration Banana, then click Continue.
  2. When asked how you lot want to transfer your information, select the option to transfer to another Mac. Then click Continue.

On your new Mac

When asked to select a Mac, Time Machine backup, or other startup disk, select the other Mac. Then click Continue.

Migration Assistant: Select a transfer source

On your erstwhile Mac

If you encounter a security code, brand sure that it's the same code shown on your new Mac. Then click Continue.

On your new Mac

  1. Select the information to transfer.
    In this example, Michael Cavanna is a macOS user account. If information technology has the same name as an business relationship already on your new Mac, you're prompted to either rename the erstwhile business relationship or replace the i on your new Mac. If you rename, the old account volition appear as a dissever user on your new Mac, with a separate home folder and login. If you supercede, the sometime account volition delete then replace the account on your new Mac, including everything in its domicile folder.
    Migration Assistant: Choose the info to be transferred
  2. Click Continue to offset the transfer. Big transfers might demand several hours to complete.
  3. After Migration Assistant is washed, quit Migration Assistant on both computers, then log in to the migrated business relationship on your new Mac to see its files.

If you're not keeping your old Mac, learn what to practice before you sell, give away, or trade in your former Mac.

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