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tigase / beagle-im

(M) XMPP client for macOS based on TigaseSwift XMPP library
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backup/restore or migrate settings and content #154

Open DonOtuseGH opened 5 months ago

DonOtuseGH commented 5 months ago

Hello,

is there an easy way, to transfer data (settings and content) from an old Mac to an new one without using Apples migration assistant? Signal messenger for example works really smoothly by compressing ~/Library/Application Support/Signal, transferring and extracting the archive on the new system.

Thanks and best regards Don!

hantu85 commented 5 months ago

As your are mentioning compression of directory on the old Mac and transferring it to the new Mac as an "easy way", then there is!

Beagle IM stores all files related to its operation (including data and application settings) in following directory ~/Library/Containers/BeagleIM (or ~/Library/Containers/org.tigase.messenger.BeagleIM in the terminal), so you can compress it and move to the new Mac.

DonOtuseGH commented 5 months ago

Hm, seem to be not working for these kind of "special" directories. Tried it with Finder compress context menu and tar, gnu-tar on the command line ... without success.

hantu85 commented 5 months ago

That's weird. I did that 3 months ago to transfer my data and it worked without any issues. I've compressed data on old Mac (from those directories and subdirectories) and decompressed on a new Mac. I was moving from Intel to AppleSilicon, so I wanted to have a clean install.