Thought I had more here - up till now have been posting on ehMac where I was a member for many years, but that forum has pretty much fizzled out.Ĭlick to expand.What did you actually do? You said you used an external drive. Migration Assistant seems to be rather useless. That's as far as I got - point continuing until I get these issues resolved.Īnyone have any suggestions what is going on? When I select 'other' after selecting Mail, I'm expected to enter all the mail access info of my ISP again Checked Apple Mail - nothing there either. Then decided to check 'Contacts' - none of the contacts I had on El Camino were listed, in fact the only contact was 'Apple' (which I didn't have beforeģ. Googled for this issue - found others with the same problem but no solution.Ģ. The desktop of the 2017 MBa just shows the HD icon and the High Sierra background - none of the files and folders I had on the El Capitan desktop are shown. Migration completed fine, but now I have a bunch of problems.ġ. So migration was done from the El Capitan backup to the 2017 MBa with High Sierra.

Since there was no cable/easy hardware method to connect the two Macs - one has FW800 and USB 2.0, the other only USB 3.0 ports, I took the route via an external drive that had both FW800 and USB 3.0 ports.

from a 2011 MacBook Pro running El Capitan to the 2017 MBa

Wanted to move all files/folders/apps etc. I bought a new 2017 MacBook Air which had High Sierra installed.

El capitan vs sierra jan 2017