While I wait for the new MBP to arrive I am considering how to do the migration. In my case I have a 2011 13’’ MBP upgraded to 1TB SSD with Sierra, most of the information that I have are mail archives, Parallels VMs, general documents, songs y videos.
As my current MBP has not been clean installed since Mavericks I am considering on doing a clean install with manual migration of the information instead of using the Migration Utility. My biggest concern about that is the email that I have quite a lot of mailboxes and different configured accounts.
After looking around in internet I reached this page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7312611?tstart=0
I have done minor modifications to previous procedure and I have tested it and it seems to work well in a test that I have done in a Parallels VM.
I would appreciate any suggestion to do it better without the Migration Utility.
This is the procedure:
As my current MBP has not been clean installed since Mavericks I am considering on doing a clean install with manual migration of the information instead of using the Migration Utility. My biggest concern about that is the email that I have quite a lot of mailboxes and different configured accounts.
After looking around in internet I reached this page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7312611?tstart=0
I have done minor modifications to previous procedure and I have tested it and it seems to work well in a test that I have done in a Parallels VM.
I would appreciate any suggestion to do it better without the Migration Utility.
This is the procedure:
- Clean Sierra Install
- iCloud login and replication activation: After a while the accounts are replicated on the new computer.
- Install 1Password to have all user/passwords replicated via iCloud
- Copy of email: These are the files you need to copy over from your user's Library folder, replace:
for Internet Accounts
.../Accounts (folder)
for Mail
.../Mail (folder)
.../Mail Downloads (folder)
.../Containers/com.apple.mail (folder)
.../Preferences/com.apple.accounts.plist (file)
.../Preferences/com.apple.accountsd.plist (file)
.../Preferences/com.apple.mail-shared.plist (file)
.../Preferences/com.apple.MailMigratorService.plist (file)
.../SyncedPreferences/com.apple.mail-com.apple.mail.vipsenders.plist (file)
.../SyncedPreferences/com.apple.mail.plist (file)
.../Accounts (folder)
for Mail
.../Mail (folder)
.../Mail Downloads (folder)
.../Containers/com.apple.mail (folder)
.../Preferences/com.apple.accounts.plist (file)
.../Preferences/com.apple.accountsd.plist (file)
.../Preferences/com.apple.mail-shared.plist (file)
.../Preferences/com.apple.MailMigratorService.plist (file)
.../SyncedPreferences/com.apple.mail-com.apple.mail.vipsenders.plist (file)
.../SyncedPreferences/com.apple.mail.plist (file)
- After this I continue copying the Dropbox folders and installing applications