I purchased a new laptop (Mac Pro). I want to continue using Lightroom Classic (have no interest to use the Cloud version). How do I make sure that when I install Lightroom Classic on my new laptop I will see all my folders and edited photos.
Ideally you would want to prepare things on the old machine first before decommissioning. Here is a really good summary of how to move to a new computer:
I used to give the same advice before but you don't want to only use migration assistant to move from an intel Mac to a Apple silicon Mac. The Adobe installation will be non-functional an you will end up with lots of intel binary apps that you will need to cleanup. The Adobe installation is easily fixed by nuking the entire Adobe install and reinstalling but this is something to be aware off. You're typically best off using migration assistant to only move the user directories (or just do this manually) and installing all the apps you need manually. It's probably going to be better going forward but the intel->M1 transition caused some headaches with this.
I moved to my MBP M1 Max this way and had very little issues. Same for my wife, who did the same move. Everything was solved much faster than the time it would have taken to completely start again on the MBP and have to install dozens of apps and register them. Mind you, you'll have a lot more on your computer than just some Adobe apps.
Migrated two machines this way when the M1 machines came out and on both the Adobe install was borked (extremely slow and hanging up Lightroom) and had to nuke creative cloud and all adobe apps using creative cloud cleaner and all apps to get it to work really well. Worked perfectly after that. Also took some time to reinstall apps that only had intel binaries installed like the Topaz apps at the time. Not a big deal but something to watch out for. Especially if you have been carrying forward your Macs over decades a lot of crud can build up by only doing migrations.
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