Migration Assistant from Sonoma Hackintosh to M3 Max

After years and years of running Hackintosh mostly succesfully, I've decided to pull the trigger on an M3 Max. (Lots of video editing workflows that my i9 10980XE & 6900XT can't handle- that the media engines in the new machines handle extremely easily).

I have a great setup on my Hackintosh, but to use Wi-Fi from my Fenvi T919 & to allow all my apps to work correctly, I had to install OCLP on the machine.

I haven't updated beyond Sonoma 14.0 and I'm on the first OCLP that fixed everything.

Is it even possible to migrate that machine to the new M3 Max via Migration Assistant? (it's arriving tomorrow it seems) - obviously, some of my apps that are Intel only will have to be updated to Apple Silicon versions, or will have to be replaced with an alternative that's compatible w/ Apple Silicon. But I'm wondering if this is possible.

Thunderbolt networking does work on my Hackintosh, so hopefully I can use that to perform the migration - otherwise I'll use a 2.5 GbE USB-C adapter on the new machine as my Hack has 10 GbE on my home network.

Any thoughts/ experiences, insights on this would be appreciated greatly, thanks!

Migration should not be a problem. When I got my Mac Studio, I used Migration Assistant and migrated from a Time Machine drive but direct from your hack should also work.

pastrychef said:

Migration should not be a problem. When I got my Mac Studio, I used Migration Assistant and migrated from a Time Machine drive but direct from your hack should also work.

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Having OCLP installed shouldn't interfere with it? Worse case, if it doesn't work, I can move stuff myself and re-do all my settings (I save a lot of preference files in Dropbox so that's not a major issue - just hoping there's a quick way to do this)

djbuddha said:

Having OCLP installed shouldn't interfere with it? Worse case, if it doesn't work, I can move stuff myself and re-do all my settings (I save a lot of preference files in Dropbox so that's not a major issue - just hoping there's a quick way to do this)

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I don't think the OCLP stuff will be a problem. Idk if disabled SIP and SecureBootModel will cause problems but you can always re-enable them.

In a worse case scenario, do a Time Machine backup of your hack to any old hard drive you have laying around and restore from the Time Machine backup on your MacBook with Migration Assistant.

Note: Every time I've used Migration Assistant, I did it during the initial setup of the new computer.

pastrychef said:

I don't think the OCLP stuff will be a problem. Idk if disabled SIP and SecureBootModel will cause problems but you can always re-enable them.

In a worse case scenario, do a Time Machine backup of your hack to any old hard drive you have laying around and restore from the Time Machine backup on your MacBook with Migration Assistant.

Note: Every time I've used Migration Assistant, I did it during the initial setup of the new computer.

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Awesome, thanks for the insight. Waiting on the computer now! (It’s out for delivery)

pastrychef said:

I don't think the OCLP stuff will be a problem. Idk if disabled SIP and SecureBootModel will cause problems but you can always re-enable them.

Note: Every time I've used Migration Assistant, I did it during the initial setup of the new computer.

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So Migration Assistant over the network or via Thunderbolt gave an error so I ended up doing it via Time Machine.

What is the safest way to remove OCLP because that also seemed to transfer. (I’m getting the OCLP upgrade message on boot)

djbuddha said:

So Migration Assistant over the network or via Thunderbolt gave an error so I ended up doing it via Time Machine.

What is the safest way to remove OCLP because that also seemed to transfer. (I’m getting the OCLP upgrade message on boot)

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Launch the OCLP installer. There's an option to undo what it did.