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Title: How to use Migration Assistant to move a user account to another Mac
Post by: HCK on November 16, 2018, 04:05:11 pm
How to use Migration Assistant to move a user account to another Mac

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<p>Apple makes it relatively painless to migrate data on one Mac to another. But you can also selectively migrate and split up multiple users on a single Mac into users across multiple Macs. You would do this if, for example, you have kids on a shared computer who now own their own, or if you’re leaving a job and want (and are allowed) to take your home directory with you.</p><p>Migration Assistant is the app you use to perform a user migration. It’s found in the Applications folder’s Utilities folder. This flexible software can work in a variety of ways to transfer all or part of the applications, user files, and other settings on one Mac to another. You can start from Time Machine backup, another Mac, or a Mac drive configured as a macOS startup volume—including a disk image backup.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3319642/macs/how-to-use-migration-assistant-to-move-a-user-account-to-another-mac.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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