I just spent a while offloading a bunch of music from a Macbook Pro that had to be returned to an educational institution after years of use. I was able to get

I just spent a while offloading a bunch of music from a Macbook Pro that had to be returned to an educational institution after years of use. I was able to get to the music files directly and copied/pasted them over to large flash drives. I did the same for photos on that machine. From there I uploaded them to a network storage device where they've just been chilling until they're downloaded to a new machine.