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How Do I Transfer Data To a New iMac?

Monday April 29, 2019. 11:10 PM , from MacMost
I have a new 27″ iMac coming in 2 weeks with a 3TB Fusion Drive. My current iMac has a 1TB drive that is 85% full and an external G-drive, 2TB, that is 70% full. Together they are ~2.1TB of data. Both drives are backed up to a new WD Passport 4TB via Time Machine. I have heard that it is better to connect the Time Machine drive to a new iMac rather than going computer-to-computer. Is this correct? If so, the initial backup on the new WD Passport drive took about 36 hours (I have to connect it to the USB 2.0 port on my old computer.) Hopefully the USB-C port on the new iMac will be much faster. But I’m wondering, if I keep using the old iMac while the new one is updating from the Time Machine drive, how do I then get the NEW data off of the old iMac to the new one? Thank you, Gary.
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Ron
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