Move to a New Mac
A new Mac costs you two days of reinstalling. This makes it an afternoon.
- 1 · This MacScan it, then choose what moves
- 2 · Your driveOneRig copies the move there and checks every item
- 3 · The new MacOpen the move there; one admin password puts it in place
Choose what moves
Six parts, one open at a time. Tell it which DAWs and formats you use and the right things start checked. Try it: open a part.
Your picks decide what starts checked in the next step; every row can still be changed.
- AAvid Linkinstalls Pro Tools
- iLiLok License ManagerPACE
- EEUCONAvid
20 apps your plugins install and license through. 14 ready to download · 6 to fetch yourself.
- NINative Access455 plugins
- UAUA Connect103 plugins
- WWaves Central25 plugins
- AArturia Software Center136 plugins
- MMPluginManager341 plugins
- SSoftube Central8 plugins · sign in to download
Some plugins need more than their own files: an engine their maker's installer puts elsewhere, or a sound library. A fresh install is the sure way; Copy keeps your exact versions.
- Universal Audio103 plugins · installs through UA Connect
- Waves25 plugins · reinstall with Waves Central
- Kilohearts143 plugins · copied with its engine files
- Goodhertz76 plugins · copied with its engine files
- Pro Tools settings and key commandsPreferences that travel✓
- Session templatesYours, not Avid's✓
- Plugin presetsAAX Plug-In Settings and vendor preset folders✓
- PluginHub settingsSo PluginHub opens as you left it✓
Your License Key Vault keys, and any sign-ins you choose, travel sealed inside an encrypted file only your passphrase opens. License files, saved passwords and machine activations stay on this Mac.
This is a simulation of the app, not the app. Nothing on this page reads or copies anything.
What moves, and what stays
What moves
- Plugins: AAX, AU, VST, VST3, CLAPUsed and unused, in the same folders
- Files plugins need to runVendor folders in /Library and Application Support
- DAW settings, key commands, templates, presets
- Plugin preferences and PluginHub settings
- Sign-ins you choose and License Key Vault keysSealed; only your passphrase opens them
- Installers you add or downloadPlugin managers and iLok License Manager, from the vendors' own links when you click
What stays, and why
- License files and serialsTied to this Mac; the scan says how to get each back
- iLok and machine activationsDeactivate before you wipe; key licenses move with the key
- Saved passwords and logins
- Caches, logs and temp filesThey rebuild themselves
- Installed vendor appsTheir installers travel and run first
Before you start
- A drive formatted APFS or Mac OS ExtendedWith room for the move: often 50 to 200 GB. ExFAT drives lose parts plugins need.
- OneRig on the new MacIt travels on the same drive.
- Quit your DAWs on both MacsBefore copying and installing.
OneRig never reads license keys or license files off your Mac.
Start to finish
See all of it before anything moves
OneRig reads the old Mac and shows you the whole picture: every plugin by format and vendor, the vendor support files those plugins need to load, your preference files, your settings. Nothing is copied until you say so.
Bring exactly what you choose
Opt out by format, by vendor, or one plugin at a time. Tell it which DAWs you use and the right things start checked. Search matches both vendors and plugins, so finding one in a list of a thousand takes a second.
It installs in order, and it undoes
Nine numbered steps in the order they have to run, under one admin password, with live progress naming the file in flight. Anything already on the new Mac in a different version is named, with both versions, dates and sizes side by side, and you pick per group. Every install leaves a restore point, so you can take back one step or the whole thing.
Looking is free on both Macs. Copying the move and putting it in place need your OneRig license.