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Robin Eaton Author

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can you transfer desktop items from old macbook air to new

can you transfer desktop items from old macbook air to new?

Posted on Sep 20, 2021 10:18 AM

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brbo

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Posted on Sep 20, 2021 10:32 PM

Hi Robin Eaton,

Welcome to the Apple Community.

If there are just a few desktop items, it might be easiest to just save them to a flash drive / jump drive / portable external hard drive etc., before opening that drive on the new Mac, and then drag and drop the files onto the new desktop.

To transfer a whole lot more:

You might want to follow the steps in this article from Apple Support:

Move your content to a new Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

Hope this helps,

If you need more help:

Please feel free to reply,

preferably letting us know which operating system on, and year of manufacture of, the old and new MacBook Air.

(There is also a "Get Support" link top Apple at top right on this discussion page.)

Cheers :-)

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