It’s extremely easy to misunderstand what is happening and connect to your WiFi network even though you have no intention of migrating your data that way. The transfer can also be done over WiFi for convenience if you don’t have much data to migrate, so Migration Assistant will ask you to connect to your WiFi network, but it’s not very clear why it’s asking. You’ll know if you have a Thunderbolt cable because it will have a Thunderbolt symbol on at least one end of the cable. The charging cable that comes with your Mac is not a Thunderbolt cable. The ports look identical and the cables almost look identical. The situation with USB-C and Thunderbolt is confusing. It will restart into a special mode that is complementary to the setup mode your new computer boots into and will allow your new computer to transfer files from your old computer at Thunderbolt speeds. Migration Assistant is an application you run on your old computer. Instead of Target Disk Mode use Migration Assistant. Don’t do that! I don’t exactly understand why, but it seems that Target Disk Mode can’t transfer at Thunderbolt speeds it just degrades to regular USB transfer speed.
You may have gotten used to booting your old computer into Target Disk Mode and then having the new computer migrate the contents of the old hard drive over during setup.
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The seemingly never-ending migration hits programmers especially hard.Īfter running into this problem yet again recently, I did some research and experimented until I figured out what was wrong and how to fix it. There are several different ways of migrating, it’s not clear what the relative differences are between them, and when it’s taking a lot longer than you expect it’s not clear why. Apple creates great experiences, but migrating to a new computer tends to not be one of them.
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