Transfering data to new mac

[Mork]

Since my current mac has undergone many OS updates and to multiple new machines, I'm now having some strange bugs in some of the programs I use that I don't see with the same OS version (10.13.2) on another mac.

So, when getting a new Mac, rather than manually re-installing everything, is there any substantial difference between:

1. Running the migration assistant between the two macs

2. Importing from TM backup.

3. Restoring a ChronoSync backup.

Perhaps a full manual install will be the only way to get rid of the chaff from all the old versions?

TIA

 

[MacGizmo]

I always re-install apps manually when getting a new Mac. It's not a big deal since it only happens every few years. As far as my personal date, iCloud makes some of this process easier by automatically syncing a lot of things, including files stored on iCloud Drive.

 

[Mork]

I always re-install apps manually when getting a new Mac. It's not a big deal since it only happens every few years. As far as my personal date, iCloud makes some of this process easier by automatically syncing a lot of things, including files stored on iCloud Drive.

Good info. Thank you.

 

[Fishrrman]

If you really want to do it "the completely clean way", then create a completely new account and re-install all your apps from scratch.

This WILL be much more involved.

If you create a new account, it -might- interfere with "bringing over" data from an existing TM backup (that was created using another account).

For this reason, if you decide that you're absolutely going to do things from scratch, I suggest you download CarbonCopyCloner (or SuperDuper), and create a CLONED BACKUP of your [existing] setup, and then use that as your "source" for older files.

Now you can:
- mount the backup drive right in the finder
- do a "get info" on it and in "sharing and permissions" set "ignore ownership on this volume", and then
- copy anything you wish from the old drive to the new (once copied, files will automatically "come under the ownership" of your NEW account)

I don't think "the transfer" will be as easy with a TM backup.

Note:
Both CCC and SD are free to download and use for 30 days.
Creating the cloned backup will "cost you nothing"...

 

[Mork]

I use ChronSync and I've never had an issue restoring an entire machine.

The reason for my posting was that one of my programs, a Java IDE, has a bug on one Mac 10.13 machine, but not the other 10.13 machine. Both IDEs are using the same internal Java Boot version, the same Mac OS version, the same IDE version, etc.. The company acknowledges the bug, but not a fix (from them) until sometime next year.

I was just wondering, therefore, if, perhaps there was some way I could set up a new machine and get around whatever this bug is.

On the machine that does not have the IDE bug, if I boot from a backup on that machine with the backup from the machine WITH the bug, then the machine will then have the bug too. Something in the software, but impossible to determine.

Thanks,