help with setting up a new Mac Mini with PT, etc...

[Toby Davey]

Hi, 

I have just taken delivery of a 2018 Mac Mini as my old MacBook Pro battery decided to die on me the other day and although she is now plugged into the wall all the time wich is fine but she is now starting to show her age a bit too so I thought I would update my Mac system.

I could not wait until say September time when a new M1 Mac Mini or MacBook Pro comes out and maybe by then a new version of PT would be out too but that is wishful thinking and maybe a long way away!

So I have a 2018 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM which should hopefully work a lot faster than my old MacBook Pro that only has 8GB of RAM.

So my question is how easy is it to move my PT EUControl software and licences to my new Mac Mini.

I know I can do a TimeMachine back up of my MacBook Pro and restore from a back up on the Mac Mini but for a number of reasons I don’t want to do that and just start the Mac Mini from scratch and adding just what I need rather than too much other stuff that I don’t need.  

Is it just as simple as installing PT, EUControl from Avid and then installing iLock, signing in and plugging in my iLock dongle and my PT Dock into the Mac Mini?

I am lucky that I have a wife who is sighted but she is more of a Windows person and not a Mac person and gets frustrated with Mac stuff.  So I just wondered how easy it would be to take PT, EUConttrol to my new Mac Mini and plug in the PT Dock and off I go again?

Any thoughts comments greatly welcome.

Cheers 

Toby    

[Michael Holmes]

I did the same thing in 2019, older MacBook to 2018 Mini.

Look into the Migration Assisstant utility, in Applications/Utilities. You can completely copy the old to the new. It has some exceptions in compatibility, but you can find helpful articles on MacWorld.

As for licenses, the ones on ILOK are good to go. Others, like Waves, that are authorized to your Mac will need to be deactivated and reactivated on the new Mac.

Hope this helps!

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if you want to start from scratch, you should be fine, it’s just a bit of a tedious process to get everything going. Are you on the WhatsApp group? If so, feel free to find me there and I can help you along the way if needed

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Hi, Yes I am on the WhatsApp group and may look you out on the Group.  Sorry don't know your name, if I searched for AccessibleProTools would I find you?  Cheers Toby  

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[Toby Davey]

Thanks Michael, A  bit of a long story but I don't want to migrate everything from my MacBook Pro to the Mini, I would only like to bring PT, EU Control to the Mini and anything else I can bring onto the Mini from iCloud like Mail files, etc.  Cheers Toby 

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hi Tobey, sorry my name isn’t coming up, it’s Rocco Fiorentino. I just messaged you on WhatsApp

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