I got a shiny new M1 Max MacBook Pro this week. When I setup new computers I tend to opt for setting them up new and transferring the data over “manually”; i.e. not using Migration Assistant.

I started this migration the same way that I traditionally have, using Share Disk (formerly Target Disk Mode (TDM)) and rsync. I made a few observations and, in the end, changes to how I’ll be doing data migrations going forward.