It is really very easy to set up a new Mac and going from El Capitan to Monterrey is a huge jump so you are bound to have all sorts of garbage mess things up with the MA. Any thoughts you have will be much appreciated.įirstly do not use Migration Assistant. Computers can be scary to those of us who are very far from being digital natives. I will want to keep my catalog on the hard drive of the computer though so wonder if I would have to move it.? Then I would buy the subscription and ask to use the catalog on the external drive. Perhaps? at this point I would unzip my most recent backup of the catalog. I would attach the external drive to the new machine. This is how I think it can work but please let me know if it makes sense. I am hoping I can use my latest back-up as the catalog I point to. I have the catalog stored on my hard drive and the back-ups go to the external hard drive that contains my images. I think I will be asked if I want to use my catalog from Lightroom 6. Than comes getting from Lightroom 6 to the subscription. I don't have many other than what comes with the machine and I think I can manage to download them from their websites. Since I am not great with computers I am thinking I should use the Migration Assistant for the move but not use it for the applications. I know nothing about them so could use advice on what to get. I do, though, also make a copy of that drive and do a back-up clone so maybe should also have a dock. Mostly I will be attaching my external hard drive with images so am thinking just having an adapter attached to it will work best. go back inside my desk when I am not using them. I see that I will need adapters to use in the Thunderbolt ports and am wondering about individual ones or a dock? Any thoughts? I don't have a place to leave everything set up so the laptop, hard drives, etc. I am hoping this is more than I will ever need.

It has 16 core GPU, 32GB memory and 2TB of storage. I plan to get the 16' MacBookPro with M1 Pro chip. I'd like to go over my plans with you and hope for some feedback, please. I am not a computer whiz but somehow usually blunder through. It is time to get a new machine and I am rather excited about the new ones but very nervous about the change. I have been working on a mid 2009 MacBookPro running on El Capitan and, as you might imagine, it is slow, slow, slow and I worry that it will give up one day.

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