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Title: What to do when switching to a Mac with a smaller drive Post by: HCK on February 27, 2021, 04:05:11 pm What to do when switching to a Mac with a smaller drive
<article> <section class="page"> <p>For reasons of cost, we might buy a new Mac with a smaller drive than the one we’re replacing. If your current Mac has more data stored than the capacity of the new one, you probably feel you’re in a pickle. But you can strategize how to make this transition work.</p><p>When planning the transistion, I highly recommend that you try to keep free at least 50GB on a 256GB drive, and 100GB on drives that are 512GB and larger.</p><p>Here’s how you can reduce your storage requirements before migration.</p><ul> <li> <p>Enable iCloud Photos and set Photos (in Photos > Preferences > iCloud) to store only optimized versions of your images. This does result in you not having the ability to create a full local backup (https://www.macworld.com/article/3563360/how-to-make-a-local-backup-of-your-icloud-photos-synced-library.html) of all your media, and may require an upgrade from your current iCloud storage level. However, it can be worth the tradeoff of hundreds to several hundreds of dollars for a larger-capacity drive on the new Mac.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3607469/what-to-do-when-switching-to-a-mac-with-a-smaller-drive.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: What to do when switching to a Mac with a smaller drive (https://www.macworld.com/article/3607469/what-to-do-when-switching-to-a-mac-with-a-smaller-drive.html#tk.rss_all) |