Re: transfer personal data to backup computer

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: transfer personal data to backup computer
Date	2020-11-18 15:32 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2020-11-18, Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Depends on kind of personal data. You can use IMAP to keep your mail
> synchronized between your two computers, you can synchronize some
> personal data (bookmarks, calendars, passwords etc.) via icloud - of
> course assuming you're OK with putting all this into cloud. Software
> preferences will be a problem, because eventually the old versions of
> apps will stop understand preferences written by the new versions - I
> don't think there's a way to overcome that.

None of this is an issue if you simply use Setup / Migration Assistant.

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transfer personal data to backup computer J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2020-11-17 22:57 -0500
  Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-18 10:13 +0000
    Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-11-18 12:31 +0000
    Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-18 15:32 +0000
      Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-18 15:44 +0000
        Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-18 16:29 +0000
  Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-18 15:31 +0000

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