How to MOVE from an INTEL Mac to a M1 Mac

Best way to MOVE Data from INTEL Mac to M1 Mac

In this video I'll show you the best and easier way to migrate and move all your MacBook Pro's data from one Intel Mac to a new M1 Mac.
Please note this also works from Intel to Intel or M1 to M1 too.

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[editorskeys]

We hope this helps! Its not an exciting video today, but its a helpful one!

[JeremyHarrison]

Time-saving tip... if both machines have thunderbolt / USB-C ports like the laptops did in the video, you can connect a cable from the ports on one Mac to the other.

I moved 495 GB of data from my old MBP to my new MBP in 16 minutes! Simply hook the cable up before the machines find each other in Migration Assistant. Much faster.

[tibork]

Just FYI, if you have a lot of videos (like I do) store the ones not used frequently on an external drive, it reduces your transfer speed with a lot and you can just reload them on the new computer from the external drive a lot faster once the new machine is setup. It also frees up a lot of internal drive space if videos are on an external drive. Thanks for this video, I am also thinking about moving to the new M1.

[EricBadderMusic]

How did all the ilok stuff transfer over: waves/ izotope? Was it an easy transfer for something like Logic Pro x? Thanks man! Great video!

[ww-epicbattles]

Very helpful, particularly because I wasn't even sure if this is possible. Although I'm not an owner of a new Mac yet, I now know that I have nothing to fear once I'll get a newer modell.

[CantThinkOfaHandle]

Thank youuu so much for the vid!!! Migration been stuck at 15 mins for about an hour so I’m just gonna go to bed, I’m finally upgrading to the M1 pro after 6 beautiful years with my first early 2015 Macbook pro!! SO EXCITED!!!!

[bardgolightly]

Is it better to connect the two machines with a TB cable or use a TM backup?

[barbaratanouye]

thank you for showing the actual screens...wasn't sure at some points when you could hit continue

[ktaxi]

If you have a 2011 iMac running High Sierra and a new Mac Mini M1, can you still transfer your files and apps even thought the old OS is very old?

[eljefeog]

Can't speak for Intel to M1, but migrating from m1 to m3 using the Thunderbolt cable was by far the fastest and easiest.

[ImpactSpace]

very helpful, thanks!
i did migration shortly BEFORE watching your video (lol) but so far did everything right.

[Juraiprince]

Thanks for the wonderful video! Now, can you also use a thunderbolt cable to transfer between computers as well, or do you have to do it over wi-fi only? Thanks again! I will be getting a new Mac Studio and transferring from a 2017 intel iMac which has a thunderbolt connection, and I was hoping that would work.

[EchoKraft]

Thank you so much for this video!
It helped a lot !!!

[britirock]

Thank you for this! First time upgrading my Mac so this here was exactly what I needed!

[mchasearnott]

I was watching because I migrated all my data from my Intel mac to my new Studio M1, and I'm having Finder issues. I asked our company IT guy and he said the architecture is different and it's best to manually move everything over and I'm just now about to wipe the M1 and try to do a manual clean install. It's been about a year and it hasn't resolved. I was hoping there would be a hybrid method.

[JaiSequoia]

This gives me a good idea… I’ve got a Mac studio coming this month and I’ve got about 450gigs of data on my old Mac mini. I have an external drive so I could put most of my files onto it and then do migration on everything else and just put folders back. Will be much faster.

[WhyHelloReaderMeYou-wcbr]

Hi, I have 2 questions about the process:
- Does the Mac have to be using Wifi or can one of the 2 use a wired connection?
- Does it have to be on the same version of MacOS or can I do a back up per example from Monterrey or Ventura to Sonoma?

[freddieleah]

Nice video, thanks - good to know about the extra steps that are going to be needed after the migration. I was wondering if I could use a cable to connect my new (yet to be bought) M2 Air, to my old MacBook Pro? Do you know if this would this work and would it be quicker? (Apple's 2 week return policy means I could buy the requisite cables with my new Air, use them for the install, then return them. This was actually suggested to me by an Apple Salesperson; unfortunately he couldn't tell me if Migration Assistant would work over cables rather than WiFi) Thanks....

[EmmanuelKeyZ]

Try using a thunderbolt cable....100x faster. I made the mistake of using wireless connection and it too hours while the cable took minutes.

[tdrawley]

Many thanks for a very informative video. I went through this process with an M2 Mac Book Pro 2022 and my Intel i5 Mac Book Pro 2020 which I had spilt fizzy pop over the keyboard having fallen asleep at my desk. I have now fixed the intel based MBP (which took a lot of patience and the right tools which thankfully I had to hand) and used the migration assistant to move all of my files settings etc. to my new M2 (So cool) MBP. However I assumed (assumption being the mother of all F ups) that during migration it would ask if I wanted to migrate my bootcamp files as I had a windows partition (I am a software developer so need both really - guess I will just have to use my vms housed with my DC provider now). I knew I couldn't actually use windows, it being an ARM based processor, and so didn't want to transfer the whole windows system drive plus everything else on my windows bootable drive. However, it didn't ask (I suppose I should have looked it up online first... doh) and the files have all been moved across and sit under the 'Other User' category when I go and look at the computer properties within the top left apple logo menu. I have not found anything online that informs me how I move these files to an external drive to use to boot a windows machine from. I am only really concerned with moving the folders in Mactintosh HD onto the external drive then deleting them from my new MBP to free up the additional space (its taking up 90Gb which is annoying on a brand new machine that I have no use for the files). The trouble is it is not immediately evident which parent folder all of this data sits under. Any help gratefully received. Kind regards. Tom