Find Files

[Lily61]

Hello all

I have transferred my files from an old MAC to an IMAC and can't find them. I know they are on the MAC by the storage used. I have looked on system prferences and there are no other users (previous post to solve problem) can anyone help?

 

[Weaselboy]

How did you move the files over?

 

[Lily61]

How did you move the files over?

By MAC’s migration assistant

 

[Weaselboy]

By MAC’s migration assistant

Okay... when you did that had you already made an account on the new Mac before you did the Migration Assistant import?

 

[Lily61]

Okay... when you did that had you already made an account on the new Mac before you did the Migration Assistant import?

No I didn’t. Just migrated everything over

 

[Weaselboy]

No I didn’t. Just migrated everything over

What I mean is when you turned on the new Mac, there is a step where it asks if you want to import data. Is that how you did the import?

 

[Lily61]

Yes, that’s how I did it

 

[Boomer5100]

Hello all

I have transferred my files from an old MAC to an IMAC and can't find them. I know they are on the MAC by the storage used. I have looked on system prferences and there are no other users (previous post to solve problem) can anyone help?

If you know the files names of a few, use Spotlight.

 

[Weaselboy]

Yes, that’s how I did it

How much disk space are we talking about for the files you moved over?

Try this... ho to this section in System Preferences and add Terminal app to the Full Disk Access section.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

Then run this command in Terminal. Give it a couple minutes to finish then tell us the output. It will list all the base folders and their size in GB. I'm hoping something will jump out at you here to help find where the files are.

 

[Lily61]

If you know the files names of a few, use Spotlight.

Cant see seem to get spotlight working. I really appreciate you trying to help me. I will call MAC tomorrow and see if they can help as its a brand new IMAC