The boot chime should have been available on your M2 MacBook Air. You must have had it turned off.
- Brad - On Mar 28, 2025, at 03:09, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, This a brief progress report in case it's of interest or use to anyone! My M4 arrived Wednesday evening. I began a migration from my current M2 Macbook on Thursday. One initial big and delightful surprise: The boot chime is back. By default turning on my new machine for the first time gave me the olde familiar boot chime. yeh! I got Voice Over by waiting long enough, our long established expectation. It's still there, too. Setting up wifi is next, and that goes smoothly, too. However, it's at this point that I'm expecting to see the alternative to transfer over a cable, but I'm not seeing it even though I've attached a cable connecting both machines. So that's my first disappointment. I tried a few different ports, different cables well known to work even this past week between my M2 and other machines, all with no joy. So be it. I can live with a wifi transfer. Migration Assistance setup on both machines goes smoothly. A few rounds of authentication ending with validating a 6 digit confirmation code displaying on both succeeds and I move to the next screen. At this point I run into my next disappointment. I see four checkboxes for four categories of content that might, or not be migrated. However, Migration Assistant isn't paying attention to the checkbox state at this point. It's very slowly calculating total transfer size of content in each category. Only once calculations are complete does it pay any attention to not transfering the 1.5Tb of personal files as opposed to the 200Gb of Applications, "Other fies and Folders," and System and Network files. This strikes me as inefficient and quaint as it should be clear from the start that a new 512Gb SSD won't hold the old 2Tb of data, but whatever. Let's go forward--it's only a time suck, right? Well, maybe not. I was surprised to hear the boot chime from my new M4 while I was otherwise engaged on a Zoom call a few hours later. What on earth? I couldn't figure it out--no VoiceOver response. I had to reboot the M4 and start the above all over again. I started writing this message when the count of my personal files under the unchecked checkbox was at 50Gb. It's now up to 125Gb. Woo-hoo. It'll have to get to 1.5Tb before moving forward. Frustrating. Janina 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries writes: > Thanks Brad, Sarai, Jason, and everyone else wwho has responded. Some > great suggestions as I plan for my new laptop's arrival. > > It appears from the YouTube Sarai advised that I should be able to > selectively migrate some apps? > > I'm asking specifically as I also agree with Brad that starting from > scratch is generally the happier result, even if it's more time > consuming to put into effect. > > The most obvious migration I want to perform is my VMware. It was hard > enough getting the correct app and license to effect an installation of > Fusion. It was much harder getting my guest virtual machine installed > and talking. I really don't want to repeat that pain. > > Also, I couldn't possibly move everything byte by byte because I'm going > from 2Tb to 512Gb. So, some things will get left off--which is just > fine. Actually, I'm looking forward to the cleaner new setup--another > argument for Brad's approach. > > This is triggering yet another thought. I have an old 213 era Macbook > Air that has a far better local lan configuration than my newer, and > most used M2. I wonder whether I can migrate those settings? Or, might those > be like migrating VoiceOver settings via an export? > > Best, > Janina > > Bradford Snyder writes: >> I am an advocate of setting up a new Mac from scratch, because it gives you >> the best opportunity to make a clean start without all the detritus that >> accumulates over time throughout the file system of your Mac. >> You can export your VoiceOver settings from the File menu within the >> VoiceOver Utility, then import them into your new Mac, which will get you >> going quickly. >> You can use iCloud, Dropbox, or some other cloud storage to store your data. >> Then all you have to do is sign in to that service, and your data can be >> accessed from your new machine. This is where I put the copy of my VO >> settings, so I can easily get to it after completing the original setup >> procedure. >> I also recommend using an external drive to make a copy of your user (Home) >> folder, which is where music and other media may be stored by default. >> When it comes to applications, you can either redownload from the Mac???s >> AppStore, or from the website where you originally obtained the application. >> I keep my software downloads in a folder in iCloud for easy retrieval, >> though it may be best to download the most current version, rather than >> install an outdated copy of the application. >> >> >> - Brad - >> >> >> >> On Mar 23, 2025, at 06:45, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I decided to go for a new M4 Air, trading in my not really all that old >> M2 Pro. >> >> The one spec that pushed me to the store was weight. I was surprised >> that the heft of each machine seemed about the same as I held one in >> each hand. By the published specs the difference is about 25% less for >> the Air: 1.24 Kg as opposed to 1.6 Kg for the M2. >> >> I asked for 32Gb which resulted in a special order. I also bumped up to >> 10 cores and 10 GPUs. >> >> For perhaps the first time in life I did NOT bump up the internal SSD. >> I'm going with 512 Gb. After all, there's always iCloud! >> >> I'm wondering whether anyone has advice migrating my applications and >> data. Is it a fraught process with things to be aware of? Should I >> perhaps just have the staff at my local store do the job? After all, I'm >> trading in my M2. >> >> FYI: Total out of pocket after trade in should come around $550. 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