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Fast migration

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My 13–inch MacBook Pro with Thunderbol­t is about to die, and I’m going to replace it with a new one. What’s the best way to migrate my old apps and documents?

When you get your new Mac, you need to buy a Thunderbol­t 3 to 2 (and 1) adapter. Thunderbol­t, rather than another connection, is by far the fastest for migrating.

When you’ve recovered from unboxing delight, connect your Macs to power, and use the adapter to connect the old Mac to one of the new Mac’s USB-C ports — if it has four of them, preferably use one on its left side.

Start up the old Mac first, holding down T on its keyboard until it shows a Thunderbol­t icon on its display; it’s now in Target Disk Mode, and you can start your new Mac. When the Setup Assistant invites you to copy across info from another Mac or Time Machine backup, select your old Mac as the source.

You can defer the migration until later if you want to. Now, simply hook up the two computers in the same way, and then run the Migration Assistant (in /Applicatio­ns/Utilities) on your new Mac.

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