MP 7,1 My new Mac Pro will arrive on Monday. Need to get ready for transfer

[henrymyf]

I am extremely excited, because the long-waited MP will arrive next Monday, and I will be installing it in my office, connecting it to my 18-month-old XDR display.

Now I'm using a Windows laptop with the XDR in the office, so I would need to transfer all my working documents and settings to the new tower, from Windows to macOS. I wonder if this process could be painless these days, as I remember that about 13 years ago, when I tried to transfer data from IBM Thinkpad X40 to 2007 MBP, it was not that easy.

Any experience on how to make this transfer easier? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

-Henry

P.S. I have already purchased a Parallel Desktop license for a virtual Windows on the new MP. I thought I might need to use Windows from time to time.

 

[arche3]

Congrats!!!!

 

[th0masp]

What kind of settings do you intend to transfer? Can't imagine much will carry over. E.g. in my experience preferences for the Mac build of some application are unlikely to be cross compatible with Windows unless its simple ini-files in plain text format.

Documents and such are just a simple copy operation to your user directory unless I'm missing something. It's more about organizing them on the new machine in a familiar way.

 

[steve217]

So what are the specs on your new Pro?

 

[DFP1989]

Settings? I wouldn’t think so.

Files could easily be done with an external drive formatted to exFAT, or dragged and dropped using a network share.

For the latter, you’ll need to enable SMB windows shares.

Share Mac files with Windows users

To let users connect to your Mac from a Windows computer, turn on file sharing and enable SMB sharing.

support.apple.com

 

[henrymyf]

It turned out that Apple has the migration assistant that helped me with all the transfer I need. Bravo~