Mac Migration assistant - any drawbacks?

[hoogie]

Hi All,

I have just picked up a new 2017 MacBook Pro upgrading from a very old non retina MacBook Pro.

I am looking to set it up and Mac Migration Assistant seems to be the easiest way to transfer over all my apps and data.

However, I wanted to check, are there any drawbacks to using this method?

For example does it also copy various settings and temporary files that could slow down the new system?

Would I be better of manually installing all my applications and then manually copying over any data I need?

Thanks

 

[Jimbeam3678]

I've just done the same and all has worked fine, alternatively is restore from a time machine backup.

 

[MagicBoy]

Use Migration Assistant. It just works.