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I've searched lots and tried the suggestions, but cannot find a way to do this without restoring from Time Machine (another issue). So I've just changed from a 21.5" to a 27" iMac, and have set up the larger device from scratch, reinstalling all the required software from scratch and then copying over the relevant files/folders from old to new. My stumbling block has been mail.
As per suggestions, I've copied over the com.apple.mail.plist file from Preferences and the Mail folder from HD > My Account> Library, and whilst the inbox is now matching my phone, I had about 40 'On My Mac' folders that I cannot see in Mail. I initially tried to export/import mailboxes but no joy there, so tried the Mail/Preferences approach, but neither have made the On My Mac folders visible.
No. Create a folder on the desktop of the old computer. Select all mailboxes on the old computer in Mail, right click and choose Export Mailboxes (or choose from menu under Mailboxes). Select the folder and export.
From the new computer in Mail, select Import from the menu under File. Choose Apple Mail (first in list) and navigate to the folder containing the exported mailboxes, and select the folder, or all mailboxes within and import. All mailboxes should appear under the Import mailbox in the sidebar. Select them and drag them above the Import mailbox to move them to the sidebar.
So you've stated you have exported those mailboxes from the old computer and imported them to the new computer. Have you expanded the On My Mac section to view them? Hover the cursor over On My Mac and click Show is it is not expanded.
Thanks, I didn't check TBH. Currently, using the mail folder copy process, there is no On my Mac link to expand so will try exporting/importing again. Just one question - the local folders contain messages I wanted to keep, but which mailbox are they related to? I have three mail accounts (I assume each one relates to a mailbox?) so that was what threw me!
I'm not sure what you mean by what mailbox they would be related to. When you move messages to local mailboxes, they are not associated with accounts anymore. Only going by the recipient information can you tell where they came from.
If you Export the mailboxes from the old computer, choose Import mailboxes and choose Apple Mail. Navigate to the folder where the mailboxes were exported and choose all. The exported mailboxes should all appear in the Import folder in the sidebar. You can move them to the sidebar out of the Import mailbox.
Apple's basic instruction for Migration Assistant is to include whatever you want, but here in Community and in a few places online, it says to only migrate the user account(s) or NOT to migrate applications. Does anyone know enough to speak with knowledge rather than opinion?
You may have outdated third-party applications that have installed drivers on your Intel Mac that would break on Ventura (M2). Some of those applications may tie their license to that Intel Mac's drive. You may also have older versions Pages, Numbers, or Keynote applications that are not compatible with Ventura. In any case, migrate your user data and settings, not Applications.
After the migration is done, and for third-party applications, revisit those vendors for the versions that they do support on Ventura and particularly on Apple Silicon if available, and reinstall them.
I had to make the first clean install in ten years when I set up my new MacBook Air M2, out of necessity. The new Mac has been delivered to me while I was in hospital (I just had received a new knee joint implant) and there was not much space around my bed to handle external drives as well as new computer as the nurses have been cluttering up the available space with medical devices. So I set the MBA up by simply downloading my user data from iCloud and the available apps from the AppStore. This sufficed for a very basic use - but did not suffice for music apps like GarageBand or Logic Pro, where I had to restore hundreds of GB of Application Support files manually - mostly Loops and the instrument library. Some of my most important photo editing extensions were no longer available from the AppStore, and I had to reinstall the MacPorts and LaTeX, Racket, also the complete application support for Luminar Neo and Luminar AI. When I returned home a few weeks later, I reinstalled the MBA with the Setup Assistent, by using the complete Time Machine backup of my Intel MBP from 2019, including all apps, as setting up the apps has been the most tedious task, too many apps are not self contained and not easy to install.
Before your thoughtful replies I had transferred everything (including all apps) from a Time Machine Backup of my early 2015 Intel MBP, to my new M2 MBA. Many transferred apps work fine, but a few can't be trashed (deleted via AppCleaner) and replaced by developers' update downloads. They say they're "protected" but are not listed as protected and therefore can't be unprotected.
I would do it before the migration, as a single bad apple in your library could cause the background processes to hang on incompatible items and Photos might not be able to scan for faces, recognize objects, or scan for duplicates, or sync the library with iCloud. It is harder to find and convert the incompatibe legacy items in the migrated Photos 8 Library than in your current library.
At least keep your old mac until all photos and and videos have been migrated properly. On your new Mac it will be harder to convert incompatible videos and image files, as they are no longer supported by the system and you will need to use third party apps to convert the videos and image files.
What you also should do on your old Mac is to identify and convert any videos or image files, that are in a format, that is no longer supported on Macs with a 64-bit only system version. Media files that are incompatible with Photos 8 on Ventura may be causing trouble, when they are still in the Photos Library and cannot be processed by Photos 8.
You can easily test for files that need converting, by creating a new, empty library on your new Mac, then try to import the iPhoto Library into the new test Photos Library. Photos 8 can no longer migrate iPhoto Libraries, but it can import the media files directly from the iPhoto Library.
It it a bit late now. It has been easy for six years, all system versions from OS X 10.10.3 to macOS 12 supported it to open an iPhoto Library in Photos, but now on macOS 13 Ventura we can no longer open the iPhoto Library in the successor app "Photos", it has to be done on a Mac with an older system version.
As I recall, in iPhoto, you can go into preferences and select the iPhoto library to use (as with Photos). SO, if you copy your Library to an external drive, be sure to go into the preferences and point iPhoto to the Library you copied to the External drive. THEN, go into Photos and upgrade the Library (which is now on the external drive). To keep things from getting confusing, maybe add a "2" or something to distinguish the library name as you work.
I agree with Yer_Man. It's not the SAME, but the rollover was 7 YEARS ago now. So, there are new features probably workflow changes that you didn't see slowly over time. It may be helpful to look at some older videos discussing iPhoto vs Photos just to get the overall concept changes (not for a how-to or an instructional guide).
I turned on iCloud Photos just last year. That gave me some issues. The switch from iPhoto to Photos was less problematic, IMO. I DO seem to recall issues with red eye removal I did in iPhoto and pics I edited with plug-ins not working right. I had to revert a lot of pics.
I am using a M2 MacBook AIr with Monterey installed. I've searched and searched and have found no solution. For the record, I have a very large music library with many playlists. I'd tell you the exact amounts but I can't open the darn library!
) should work but it doesn't. I called Apple support and after 10 days of trying, I realized that most of them are... ahem .. less than helpful. From "Apple music doesn't play local files" to "you must have apple music", the answers were terrible. But in the midst of that mess, one senior tech mentioned that it would only work using migration assistant. I did not want to use MA, but I thought of this workaround, hopefully, it will help:
Were you asking it to save the converted database on the internal or external drive? If it was the external drive try Repair security permissions for iTunes/Music for Mac - Apple Community in case it needs write permissions that it doesn't have.
The method should be to hold down option as you launch Music, click Choose, then browse to and open your .itl. You should then get prompted to choose a location to save the converted .musiclibrary database.
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