Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Date: 18 Nov 2020 15:31:12 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net i3lTWXg9qQS6jrExjEPPVgUTmJpljo7uUCXaxsqsMKONcsaZcq Cancel-Lock: sha1:FtRIBzEjg3P0hPp5egyiav8Ha6I= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:135024 On 2020-11-18, J Burns wrote: > > Before the internet, my personal data was documents. If my computer > wouldn't work, I could connect my backup disk to any computer that > could read the disk and had apps that could read the files. > > Now I need passwords and certificates, usernames, bookmarks, > mailboxes, and email account info, for examples, besides my documents. > My current Mac and my old one both run Catalina, so if my Mac didn't > work, I could use Time Machine or a clone of my startup disk to give > my latest personal information to the old Mac. > > If I upgrade to Big Sur, that will exclude my old Mac. How can I keep > my various kinds of personal data available for my old Mac? By transferring your data ifrom your Time Machine backup to the new Mac using Setup / Migration Assistant, which takes care of transferring all of you apps, system and network settings, and user data (yes, including passwords, certificates, user accounts, bookmarks, mailboxes, email account info, and so on). People do this every day, and it works great. Apple has directions showing how to do it: -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR