Target Disk Mode is a special boot mode for Intel-based Macs and an option in macOS Recovery on Macs with Apple silicon that enables one Mac to behave like an external drive for another Mac. You may even be able to use Target Disk Mode on an older Mac to transfer an account with Migration Assistant when setting up a new Mac. ![]() To cut the copy time in half, try Target Disk Mode instead. If you had an external drive with sufficient free space handy, you could copy all the data to it from one Mac and then copy the data from it to another Mac. You can send files via AirDrop, attach them to an email message, put them in a Messages conversation, turn on and connect via File Sharing, or use a file-sharing service like iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive as an intermediary, to name just a few of the more obvious approaches.īut what if you have a lot of data-say tens or even hundreds of gigabytes-to transfer from one Mac to another? The techniques listed above might work, but we wouldn’t bet on it. ![]() Apple makes it easy to move data between Macs.
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