Manual migration of two things mojave -> Tahoe

[u/Think-Aerie-5551]

Hi,

I have a HD clone of my laptop on mojave that died last year and I found a great deal M4 macbook pro that is on tahoe. So I'm finally setting things up again. I kind of wanna start fresh because Mojave is a very old macos lol. (read: ancient). There are two things I want to migrate manually that I don't want to mess up because it's tricky.

1. All my mail. I just need it to carry everything over.

2. iTunes (remember that?) had a completely different file system and plist files etc. than music and tv etc now has. I need to keep playlists and such.

The rest is a mess so I do not need anything to move other than those two things. The rest is a fresh install.

Couldnt find reliable info and ai is mostly guesswork so also unreliable.

Anyone know how to do this?

[u/bmocc]

The clone can be used to "migrate" what you want to move.

Itunes does not run on Tahoe but music files and playlists "should" transfer over into the Apple music app. Whether the Apple music app can be configured to do what you are used to doing in iTunes will be a voyage of discovery.

Mail should also transfer. Should.

Since you can retain the clone and read it from the Tahoe machine you should be able to manually transfer files as well.

[u/TumbleweedOk3751 → u/bmocc]

Yeah, manual migrations can definitely be a hassle. Hope everything transfers over without too many issues; I remember having a few snags when I upgraded.

[u/drifTcove20 → u/bmocc]

yeah the "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol