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I think in 2024 there must be a better way to automatically get your new Mac to the state of your previous Mac.
by behnamoh 3y ago
I think in 2024 there must be a better way to automatically get your new Mac to the state of your previous Mac.
- dangus 3y agoIt’s been available for years/decades. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102613 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102613
- alsetmusic 3y agoMigration Assistant does this quite well. This is the built-in first-run cloning tool when you start a new Mac. I'm on maybe the fifth or sixth generation of cloned user environment in however many years. Apps, preferences, data, all copied from older machines to newer ones. I recently ran into a scenario where that didn't work (on an iPhone) when a device is managed by MDM. This is the first time I've seen it fail other than 15 years ago on an edge case. For a Mac, Homebrew has an option (or maybe another tool leverages it) to create a manifest of sorts to reinstall all the right tools. That's a bit different. I know that Casey Liss, of the Accidental Tech Podcast (https://www.caseyliss.com https://www.caseyliss.com, https://atp.fm https://atp.fm) has talked about it on his blog. I just woke up, so apologies for not finding it for you.
- ngcazz 3y ago`brew bundle`?
- mckn1ght 3y agomore specifically, `brew bundle dump`
- behnamoh 3y agoBut what about all the settings you changed in the OS preferences? What about app-specific configs? What about conda environments you've created? What about all the symlinks you made to make apps read configs from Google Drive, etc.?
- gls2ro 3y agoI have migrated with the Migration Assistant my MacOS (OSX prev) since 2008. That was the last time I installed a new mac and kept migrating everything to a new hardware without any issue so far. This year I broke this and started from scratch just to retrain my brain to use new things.