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For some reason I haven't checked it before and was a little bit surprised while plugging it in for the first time. But as it seems the new Galaxy Nexus doesn't support USB mass storage. Since I try to keep my data as private as possible my pictures, music and other stuff will definitely not be uploaded to some buzzed cloud service.

What now? Well, the device only supports MTP and PTP out of the box. So there must be a way to sync my old files to the new device from an Apple Mac OSX platform. As it turned out, there are two applications I'm aware of: Android File Transfer and XNJB.

XNJB is an application to connect any creative player to your Mac via MTP. It's not convenient but it works for basic migration of your old files:

And then there is some tiny program called "Android File Transfer". It also is not an application you really want to use daily, has some hangups but works acceptably (some other users experienced that also):

If you've found other ways to connect your Mac to your Nexus, feel free to comment. That device really is an iPhone killer

Have fun!

Edit (16th of December 2011): Patrick suggested to simply drop that USB cable and install some FTP server app (i.e. that one) to transfer files wireless. That really is a good idea but brought me to an even better one with regard to regularly synced files/folders. Why not having a SSH server - like QuickSSHd - on your phone instead of FTP? Add a simple script and sync your folders via rsync Then only one problem remains: DNS ...