{"id":36498,"date":"2022-07-13T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36498"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T19:51:03","slug":"migration-assistant-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/13\/migration-assistant-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration Assistant Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/migration-assistant-magic\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/migration-assistant-magic\/\">\n<p>You agree, it opens Migration Assistant on your new Mac &mdash; you open it manually on your old one &mdash; and then it runs a few tests in the background to automatically select the fastest transfer method.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, this was peer-to-peer at a painfully slow three-to-six megabytes per second. To move the half-million files from my old Mac, it was looking like a twelve hour operation. But I remembered I had a first-generation Thunderbolt cable laying around and an adaptor &mdash; and the tip Siracusa relayed in that podcast episode: Migration Assistant will automatically switch to the fastest method available, even partway through a migration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Peer-to-peer is faster than regular Wi-Fi, and it always seems to be at least twice as fast as the original estimate that it gives. I recently migrated my server from an old MacBook Air to an M1 Mac mini, and I didn&rsquo;t have an adapter for the old Thunderbolt port. So it took a while, but the most important thing is that it did the job properly and unattended.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbolt is much faster but <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/08\/upgrading-to-a-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-a-studio-display\/\">not<\/a> as much faster as I expected.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer: You agree, it opens Migration Assistant on your new Mac &mdash; you open it manually on your old one &mdash; and then it runs a few tests in the background to automatically select the fastest transfer method. In my case, this was peer-to-peer at a painfully slow three-to-six megabytes per second. To move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-07-13T19:51:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"144b78e6-7589-4572-b994-65c888732643","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-07-13T19:51:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFEt45nWJRXK5lGXIiHMmQw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2077,1063,201,187],"class_list":["post-36498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-migration-assistant","tag-thunderbolt","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36499,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions\/36499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}