Our advice is to create your initial account with a User Name and Shortĭata has been migrated, you can delete the original account.
You will also then have two User Accounts for the same person on your Preferred Short Name when you set up your Mac. This could be a problem if you already set up your User Account a
Like “Jonny” as part of the data migration process.Īlso see: How to Remove Browser Redirect Viruses From Macs Of “John”, Migration Assistant will force you to use a different short name, So, if you createdĪ User Account with the Long Name of John Appleseed and assigned a Short Name Your Mac, no two User Accounts can have the same Short Name. Like Windows, all data belongs to a specific user and MigrationĪssistant creates a User Account and assignes a User Name and a “Short Name” as Select the folders you want to migrate to your new Mac and click continue. Select your old PC and wait for the Migration Assistant window on your PC to show the same code number as the one on your Mac screen.Īt this point, your new Mac will scan your PC and provide a listing of all the data it found to be transferred. You will now be asked to select the PC you want to transfer the data from. When prompted, enter an administrator ID and password and click “Continue.” If you have any other applications running on your Mac, they will be closed automatically. You can find Microsoft’s support page for uninstalling OneDrive here. If you use Microsoft OneDrive on your PC, you will have to uninstall it before you begin the migration process. If your PC and Mac both have Ethernet ports, you can connect an EthernetĬable between them to get a faster connection, but in our experience, Wi-Fi Have an administrator ID and password available before you start the process.
The Windows Migration Assistance will work on any PC running Windows 7Īll software updates for whatever version of Windows you are running.Īlready set-up as a user with administrator account privileges, make sure you You need to prepare your PC for the process.Īre running the most up-to-date software. Get your files from your old PC to your new Mac. Windows to Mac, Apple has you covered too with a Migration Assistant utility Task ahead of you, is probably trying to get all the data off your PC and ontoĪn older Mac to a new Mac, already knows that macOS includes a MigrationĪssistant utility to make the data transfer easy. Probably already know how easy it was to get it set-up and running. Users that woke up on Christmas morning to find a new Mac under the tree, you