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Can we pull this YouTube vid please!

How To Transfer Your Mac's Data to a New Hard Drive SSD

We shouldn’t promote cloning apps! At one point they were useful with HDD’s of old.

Today we have hidden partitions (Internet Recovery) and newer file systems (HFS+ Vs APFS) that these cloning apps just don’t work and can leave the system appear working but is not setup correctly when you need recovery services.

We should focus people to use Migration Assistant, Yes it’s a bit slower as each file is CRC’ed as its copied over. And yes you do need to transfer the user accounts. In the end you get a better image!

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Hi Dan, our video team went ahead and removed that one, it’s definitely old practice, we just didn’t get around to curating. We may have some others floating around out there too! Thanks for the heads-up! =)

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Thanks! Sam.

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Curious, would a program like Clonezilla work for mac? It is a self-bootable linux environment and does a bit level clone through command line. If you use a usb boot device boot to usb and run clonezilla off usb, wouldn’t it be able to clone mac os completely? I don’t spend a lot of time on macos so I could be wrong, but ive used clonezilla on windows and linux no prob bob. Thanks.

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Clonezilla Does not support APFS file system which is what High Sierra & Mojave use.

In years past I had used it quite extensively on SATA HDD's & SSD's. I'm not sure if its very good with AHCI/NVMe based SSD's as unlike SATA you get into concurrent reads & writes which could cause the drive to overheat, either the drive drops down into slow mode or shuts down or just fails. This is another reason you need to be careful with cloning apps with the newer drive technology.

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Huh. Thanks for the info. I have not tried using clonezilla with nvme drives yet as I have never had the need to clone an nvme drive yet. It works wonders on sata drives though! I'm going to look into it though. Thanks for the heads up!

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Dan will be eternally grateful.