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2nd puzzle was to get the dongle software on the iMac to see the mini. Took several minutes after turning the mini on.
The macOS install app showed up, but wanted to talk me thru setup with voice-over because it couldn’t see the Bluetooth mouse. Another trip to the basement for a wired mouse.
Puzzle 3 was plugging in the time machine backup volume to copy everything over.

2/n

Got to the part in setup to point to Time Machine and it told me I needed to run the system update. Was gonna skip that but nah, do it. That took 1/2 hour.
Got the restore started from Time Machine. It’s running now. It’s estimating 51 hours to complete. Yikes!
Oops, just dropped to 33 hours. Ok.
2 minutes later and it says 22 hours.
Time for lunch I guess.

3/n
#macintosh #macOS #macmini

Now it says 4 hours.

4/n
#macintosh #macOS #macmini

There’s about 350gb of stuff on the iMac.
Estimate is waffling around 3 1/2 hours +- 20 minutes. At first it was saying transfer rate was 30-40 mb/sec. Now it’s down to 5-6 mb/sec, so it’s bogging down in system and app pieces I’m guessing, thrashing around in the directory.The progress bar is sitting at around 1/4.

5/n

OMG! It’s finished! Only about 4 hours altogether.
Now I just have to tweak all the defaults.

6/6

Ok, not finished, of course. As expected, some software is unhappy at moving from Intel to Apple innards. Photoshop was not a surprise. That it was easy to resolve was a surprise. Word is another. Have to buy a new license. I need Word for 1 legacy task. There’s an old version of it on the iMac that I can use when necessary. FTW. I used to enjoy doing this. I’m out of practice and it’s more anxiety-provoking than it used to be.
7/n

Well, it’s been 20 days, the experiment was successful. Using the iMac as a monitor works, but it’s a pain in the ass having to deal with 2 keyboards & 2 mice. So I looked around, at an ASUS ProArt, a Samsung, and finally sprung for a Dell this afternoon. Same resolution as the native iMac, which I couldn’t get with the kluged setup, so I’m happy. Now maybe some fine tuning with the color settings, & I’m good to go.
#macintosh #macOS #macmini

@MyLittleMetroid
I’ll take a look. I use it for post processing photos so I need something with good color space management. Saw an article the other day recommending a Dell monitor. Not sure where I can go physically to look at them. Maybe BestBuy I suppose.

@qurlyjoe @MyLittleMetroid

I'm retired now, but was a still-life advertising photographer and an early adopter of digital. Lots of expensive kit. The last monitor I bought, which replaced a $3500 monitor, was a BenQ and it cost ~700eur. They have ~full AdobeRGB and depending on where you are, may offer reconditioned from their own site.

@DawnBlackbirds
Anything less than $1600 is good. I do photo editing so color management is crucial for me too. Is ASUS a brand sold in the US? Haven’t looked for a while.

@DawnBlackbirds
Even better, a photography supply store I’ve bought camera stuff from has them. $299!