Does Thunderbolt in Migration Assistant just… not work anymore?

Got Thunderbolt Migration Assistant working!

Had to do half of this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253658404

- connect Thunderbolt cable to both

On source Mac:
- create Thunderbolt Bridge interface
- assign it a 10.0.0.x IP
- enable Internet Sharing from Wi-Fi to the Thunderbolt Bridge
- run Migration Assistant

On destination Mac, never set up Wi-Fi. It’ll activate over that Thunderbolt shared-internet connection and never ask for a Wi-Fi network.

(This used to be as easy as “connect them with a cable”.)

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@marcoarment huh, I did “connect with a cable” just a couple weeks ago and it worked fine (Sonoma 14.1, Mac mini to studio). Even seamlessly jumped from Ethernet to thunderbolt mid-transfer when it detected that a faster interface was available.