Getting programs transfered without Time Machine

[Drebs17]

Hey guys had a mid 2011 mac that got water spilled on it. The computer repair shop rigged it to boot up without a battery. It still works but it’s severely slow and crippled. However all the files are there and their are programs I own on there like Microsoft office without licenses and adobe Photoshop without licenses, which are no longer attainable, it’s all
Subscription based so I’d like to keep these… I tried to just copy and move these programs to my Intel Mac mid 2011 and 12’s… A1278,

The problem is I cannot transfer these programs without the computer saying that they’re not licensed, and won’t work, however I’ve done the time machine back up on the crippled computer to a clean machine and it lags and runs extremely slow, I feel there are some virus or corrupted file on here because it runs extremely slow as well and it was running fast before I loaded it with my time machine from my old computer..

So is there a way that I can either clean up all unnecessary files or more ideally is there a way that I can get these programs transferred over without using a full time machine back up and getting the computer to recognize the programs .. this would eliminate all the bloat I didn’t want to bring over and get rid of all potentially corrupt and compromised files that are making this computer run slow now

 

[Drebs17]

I will also state that this went from an i5 2.3 with 16gb to an Intel core 2 duo 2.26 ghz with 8 gb of ram … however I have a i7 2.9 mid 2012 coming and would like to get the Microsoft programs (the full office suite) and adobe photoshop and I’d like to get those programs that I owe him for free over instead of paying everyone 9 or $12 a month for subscriptions like they’ve all gone to now. Would love to just get the programs over or i could just Time Machine move it over to my new and wipe everything else out this a 12 year old computer from college with tons of downloads I don’t know where is compromised or how to clean it up. Hate to bring over old stuff to my new computer and don’t know how to tell it to wipe absolutely everything but these few select files

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

I’m not aware of a migration tool that transfers legitimately purchased licenses. You’ll need to contact the vendor for license transfer support.

 

[Bigwaff]

I will also state that this went from an i5 2.3 with 16gb to an Intel core 2 duo 2.26 ghz with 8 gb of ram … however I have a i7 2.9 mid 2012 coming and would like to get the Microsoft programs (the full office suite) and adobe photoshop and I’d like to get those programs that I owe him for free over instead of paying everyone 9 or $12 a month for subscriptions like they’ve all gone to now.

All the Macs you reference are very old and so the software you are referring to must be very old as well. I doubt any of the latest subscription based software would run on these systems given the very old version of Mac OS installed. If you purchased the old software legitimately and don't have the license keys/numbers any more, perhaps the vendors can help. Call/reach out to them.

 

[Drebs17]

Well then the answer just might be finding a good cleaning tool they transfer with Time Machine but whatever files or corruption that caused the last computer to run slow is doing the same on this .. so I’ve got them over just need to find a good software to sweep and identify bad/ corruption files ..

If anyone has any recommendations on that I’m all ears.. I’m pretty green but I done open core and dude 1 patches and splitting hard drives on one system running high Serria on one and Catalina on the other, so if I can find a tutorial I can do it