replacement MBP - clone old SSD or restore certain folders?

[TWHH]

The SSD went on my Late 2013 MBP, and given the cost of replacing I've sold it for spares and parts and have a new MBP coming tomorrow.

Thankfully the SSD was back up to a bootable drive (via the wonderful Carbon Copy Cloner).

So, question: Should I clone the new drive from the back up, or keep things a bit cleaner by restoring the just the relevant files, ie Music, Docs, Photos etc?

Interested to hear your thoughts.

Thanks

 

[keysofanxiety]

I'd personally set up as new and then drag-and-drop what data you need from the old drive. There's no harm in cloning the drive providing it was on the latest OS, but again I prefer setting up as new. It's completely your discretion though and not an issue whichever route you decide to take.

 

[TWHH]

I'd personally set up as new and then drag-and-drop what data you need from the old drive. There's no harm in cloning the drive providing it was on the latest OS, but again I prefer setting up as new. It's completely your discretion though and not an issue whichever route you decide to take.

Thanks - I'm veering towards a cleaner install, and then just download the apps I actually end up using as and when there's the need to

 

[Fishrrman]

If you're going to do the migration "by hand" (i.e. NOT use either setup assistant or migration assistant), then you could experience permissions problems UNLESS you do this:

- Mount CCC backup on desktop
- Click ONE time to select it
- Type command-i (eye) to bring up get info
- Go to sharing and permissions area
- Click the lock icon and enter your password
- Put a check into box "ignore ownership on this volume".
- Close get info

Now you can copy anything you wish from the backup to the new drive, and copied files will "assume ownership" of your new account.

 

[TWHH]

If you're going to do the migration "by hand" (i.e. NOT use either setup assistant or migration assistant), then you could experience permissions problems UNLESS you do this:

- Mount CCC backup on desktop
- Click ONE time to select it
- Type command-i (eye) to bring up get info
- Go to sharing and permissions area
- Click the lock icon and enter your password
- Put a check into box "ignore ownership on this volume".
- Close get info

Now you can copy anything you wish from the backup to the new drive, and copied files will "assume ownership" of your new account.

Thanks for this. I went through the steps and saw that that box was already ticked. I guess its one of the features of the CCC software.
[doublepost=1500558478][/doublepost]Hmm, just went to copy over my Photos library and noticed that the library on my new MBP is ~40GB, but the one on my CCC backup is ~22GB. I was expecting the older one - the backup for my older Mac to be larger!

Any idea why this might be and which library I should use/which I should ditch?