Migration assistant in Mavericks

having trouble using Migration Assisant to tranfer from my 13: iBook to new Mac Mini; it keeps causing the Mac Mini to log out. Help!

Here's some more information for you.
I have an iMac, Model 10,1 , with Mountain Lion installed. So, both iMac and one of the MBPs are running the same OS.
I thought I would try MA between those two. I set everything up to transfer from my ML MBP to the iMac, and all data was listed in MA on the iMac. MA worked great.
So why wasn't all the data listed on the Mavericks MBP when I ran MA between the MBPs?
The two MBPs are identical, Model 3,1 , except for the OS, one is the latest Mavericks version and the other is the latest Mountian Lion version.
I also noticed in MA on the Mavericks MBP that when the three items were listed only the Settings item had calculated the size correctly, the Applications and Other files were showing 0kb, which I know is incorrect.
On the iMac the sizes for Users, Applications, Settings, and Other files, were all shown and were correct.
Does anyone know why MA is not working between two identical MBPs, but is working between a newer iMac and older MBP?
Thanks...

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Migration Assistant in Mavericks not listing Users

I thought I would experiment with using Migration Assistant on my two MBPs since I will be helping someone tomorrow transfer their data from an old iMac to a new one.
I have a Mavericks MBP and a Mountain Lion MBP and connected them together via ethernet. I opened MA on the Mavericks MBP, followed instructions and opened MA on the ML MBP. Confirmed Passcode and clicked continue and waited for the files to list on the Mavericks MBP.
Applications, Settings, and Other files were listed but no User accounts were listed. Only those three items were shown.
I'm in the admin account on both Macs and the ML MBP has four user accounts.
What gives? Why aren't Users listed also?
Thanks for any help.

Here's some more information for you.
I have an iMac, Model 10,1 , with Mountain Lion installed. So, both iMac and one of the MBPs are running the same OS.
I thought I would try MA between those two. I set everything up to transfer from my ML MBP to the iMac, and all data was listed in MA on the iMac. MA worked great.
So why wasn't all the data listed on the Mavericks MBP when I ran MA between the MBPs?
The two MBPs are identical, Model 3,1 , except for the OS, one is the latest Mavericks version and the other is the latest Mountian Lion version.
I also noticed in MA on the Mavericks MBP that when the three items were listed only the Settings item had calculated the size correctly, the Applications and Other files were showing 0kb, which I know is incorrect.
On the iMac the sizes for Users, Applications, Settings, and Other files, were all shown and were correct.
Does anyone know why MA is not working between two identical MBPs, but is working between a newer iMac and older MBP?
Thanks...

Migration Assistant issues, Mavericks

So this has been frustrating. Two MBPs connected by ethernet, both running updated Mavericks. Both have wifi turned off, both have firewalls turned off, both manually assigned IPs on same network (finally got to all of those things being done after only the source machine was not being seen in Migration Assistant). Trying to migrate one user from old machine to new.
Now that I'm here, and both machines are seeing each other, getting a matching code, etc... when I get to the page on the new machine where I select what I want to pull over from the old machine, it only gives me a few options. One being an Applications folder with a listed size of 0 kb, one being computer with 141 kb, and one being other files with 0kb listed. (I'm going off memory as I'm typing this on one of the machines I was trying to do this on.
No ability to select a user, etc. WHAT THE ****?

This worked for me one time, but I had to wipe and re-do my whole system (different issue) and this solution did not work for me the second time. Instead, I had to disable my firewall on the original old mac completely to have my user accounts and other data show up as transferrable into the new mac. After messing around with it and reading a lot of other people's problems with this, I thought I should post my solution for others in case this works for them.

HT204350 Migration Assistant in Mavericks does not allow User account migration

Users accounts do not show up at all.

After a similar problem I found http://www.hardturm.ch/luz/2014/02/fixing-os-x-10-9-mavericks-migration-from-ext ernal-volume/ which explains that since Migration assistant logs you out, it also unmounts external disks. As AtlNCS Admin points out, they have a solution in using ssh and command line stuff to mount the needed disk remotely, but someone in the comments had a simpler solution: do not plug in the external firewire disk until after launchine Migration Assistant. So before running MA, eject the external disk that you want to migrate to the new machine (and unplug it) then start Migration Assistant and after selecting "migrate from an attached disk" THEN plug in the disk. It worked for me.

Migration Assistant in Mavericks is Broken

I boot a Mac into Target Disk Mode, connect it to the Mac I want the User Home Folder from, and launch Migration Assistant on the source computer. When it displays the drive, instead of the orange drive icon titled Macintosh HD (Thunderbolt or FireWire) it displays as a white sheet titled Macintosh HD. When you click Continue your options to migrate are Applications and network settings only. The size of what will be migrated is smaller than what you would expect for the Applications folder, and the migration completes in about a minute. I have to do this dance of un-mounting, remounting; un-mounting and rebooting both computers: booting the computer with the Target Disk Mode computer attached to the source; attaching it to the source after booting up... Eventually the drive will show up with the orange icon and the migration will work properly but rarely does it happen the first time. But why?!?! Is Migration Assistant just utterly broken? I thought it was OS related at first from 10.8 to 10.9 but I've tried just about all combinations. Going from 10.6 to 10.9 (not happening), from 10.7 to 10.9 (nope), 10.8 to 10.9 (sometimes after I do the dance), and 10.9 to 10.9 after doing the dance. Seriously, it's only worked for me like it's supposed to less than 10% of the time. And my work has involved over 50 migrations since Mavericks has been released. I've always run Software Update on the computer I want to migrate from. So 10.8 machines are updated to 10.8.5 first, etc. When I go from Mavericks to Mavericks I make sure they are at the same (10.9.2 to 10.9.2, etc.). Nothing seems to work cleanly.

When I boot the source in TDM and run Migration asst on the target and choose "From a Mac" I get this:
And after selecting that I get this:

Migration Assistant vs Mavericks = Problems?

Hello all,
I am trying to use Migration Assistant to transfer everything from my old Mac book to my new iMac 27".
Both have Mavericks installed.
Both have system preferences set to "never sleep".
But each time I attempt migration one or both computers go to sleep within seconds, and migration fails!
Any advice?

I had migration problems transferring data from old Mac Book Pro running Mavericks (10.9) to new MBP Running Mavericks (10.9).
The only solution that worked for me and have everything run correctly was to migrate from my Time Machine Time Capsule.
Here is what I did To Fix Migrate Problems From Old Mac To New Mac -
But Email Did Not Run Correctly after migration:
A. Process To Correct Migration Problems from old Mac Book to New Mac Book:
Set up computer and after it is set up then do steps 1 - 5:
1. Set Apple Preferences > Energy Saver > Put Computer to Sleep Never, Do Not Put Hard Drive To Sleep.
2. Use Disk Utility to verify and correct the source: Disk and Disk Permissions
3. Reset Pram: Restart Computer and Immediately hold down the Command, Option, P, R Keys simultaneously until computer chimes ring twice
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14222
4. Reset SCM (System Management Control): Shut down computer, then: Simultaneously hold down Shift, Control, Option, Power Button - for MacBooks Late 2009 and later
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
5. Run Migration Assistant (in Utilities Folder which is inside the Applications folder)
B. Email Problems After Migration - GRRR!
After Migration I had Email Problems with my email Sub Folders not being visible, all emails not viewable and could not access my iCloud Email Account.
I tried re-indexing mail by removing Envelop files from the Mail Data folder (path: Go menu, hold down option key, Library > Mail > V2 folder > Mail Data folder > 3 Envelope files (move to desk top).
Nothing worked.
C. Solution: I migrated data from Time Machine Time Capsule to my new Mac Book Pro. All worked correctly - Rejoice!
To Migrate from Time Capsule to new Mac:
Get an Ethernet to Lightning Adapter to connect Time Capsule to New Mac
You can use the Ethernet to USB adapter but Lightning adapter has much faster throughput.
1. Back up your old Mac using Time Machine
2. Connect your new computer to Time Capsule with ethernet to Lightning or USB adapter
3. Verify the Sparsebundle (backup data file) on Time Capsule using Disk Utilitiy
Path to Sparsebundle:
A. Using the Mac connect to Time Capsule go to Finder > Go Menu > Network > select Time Capsule, log into Time Capsule > select User > you will see Sparsebundle file
B. Run Disk Utility to Verify / Fix data
Time to back up data from New Computer to Time Capsule.
I am now running a new backup from new computer to Time Capsule via Ethernet to USB connector (would recommed using Ethernet to Lightning connection).
Backing up 126 GB. So far it has taken 6 hours to back up 7.8 GB. Estimated time to complete is 4 days.
Very slow. When I get my ethernet to Lightning adapter I will replace the USB wth Lightning adapter and would expect a much faster through put - UB2 maxes out at 42 MB per sec and Lightning is at least 5 times faster.

Migration Assistant Mav.: not showing ML Time Machine backup

Hi Mac community,
my own MBP mid 2010:
clean install of Mavericks
connected FireWire 800 external hard disk with recent Time Machine backup done in Mountain Lion
started Migration Assistant, selected the Time Machine disk, and transferred all user data
everything worked absolutely PERFECTLY and now Mavericks runs smoothly with all my old user data
So I wanted to do the same thing with a relative's late 2009 iMac:
still in Mountain Lion, doing Time Machine backups to TWO different USB 2.0 hard disks
browsing the Time Machine disks manually to check whether all the files are there -- they are, including the (hidden) ~/Library folder
clean install worked fine, Mavericks runs OK
starting Migration Assistant in Mavericks ⇒ and - OH HORROR - the connected external Time Machine hard disk does not show up as a source - in fact, NOTHING shows up
So I copied over the data manually, for which I had to enable the root account (how else would one delete/replace a whole ~/Library folder??)
Then I tried to fix permissions manually (because other users could now read the files in the home folder).
All the old data (mails, contacts, calendars) is still there, but the whole thing doesn't really run smoothly; each time one logs into the account, keychain asks weird questions and dock icons pointing to programs show questions marks again. Later today, I'll try to fix permissions for the home folder as a whole (Recovery Boot ⇒ Terminal ⇒ resetpassword ⇒ Reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLs), but I'd rather do another clean install and somehow get Migration Assistant to offer me the Time Machine backup as a source for user data transfer - AS IT SHOULD in an OS that 'just works' ...
Anything I could do to convince Mavericks to use my old Time Machine backup??
This is a real nightmare for me ⇒ I f*cked up a relative's system -- really hope I can fix it again.
Cheers, folks!

sorry, i don't know what else it could be then. if you have another external drive you can try doing a full system restore from the TM backups onto that drive and see if MA will recognize that drive and migrate from it. other than this there is always manual migration. slow and tedious but it can be done. see this link for help with that
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507

Migration Assistant 10.9 - Fails to detect external HD for Time Machine

After deciding to upgrade my trusty late 2007 MBP to a new rMBP late 2013 - I wanted to use the migration assistant in mavericks and restore via Time machine. Both Macs are running 10.9.
However after connecting my WD external hardrive (mac version) which is recommended to use with time machine. The migration assistant doesn't seem to detect the HD? It just sits there looking for the source and after 30minutes of waiting,nothing? However in the finder, the HD appears.
I've been researching this online and can't find anything so far which has worked for me.
There were articles relating to a sparse file in the root of the external HD - mine doesn't have this.
Tried ctrl-r at startup and run a time machine backup - displays the message that backups cannot be restored because the backups were made from a different mac!
Any ideas, the mac seems to be sitting on my desk as a very expensive paper weight!
Any help, much appreciated.

After deciding to upgrade my trusty late 2007 MBP to a new rMBP late 2013 - I wanted to use the migration assistant in mavericks and restore via Time machine. Both Macs are running 10.9.
However after connecting my WD external hardrive (mac version) which is recommended to use with time machine. The migration assistant doesn't seem to detect the HD? It just sits there looking for the source and after 30minutes of waiting,nothing? However in the finder, the HD appears.
I've been researching this online and can't find anything so far which has worked for me.
There were articles relating to a sparse file in the root of the external HD - mine doesn't have this.
Tried ctrl-r at startup and run a time machine backup - displays the message that backups cannot be restored because the backups were made from a different mac!
Any ideas, the mac seems to be sitting on my desk as a very expensive paper weight!
Any help, much appreciated.

HT204350 USB Time Machine backup drive not visble in Mavericks Migration Assistant

Hi all,
Yesterday I updated my dad's iMac from Snow Leopard (SL) to Mavericks. Seemed to work ok apart from the fact that turning on iCloud wiped out the calendars. In order to get the calendars back I restored from the most recent SL Time Machine backup. This turned out to be a big mistake! It did get the calendars back but stopped all programs not included in the OS X install to stop working!
I then managed to get a bootable flash drive installer for Mavericks sorted out and installed a fresh copy of Mavericks on the computer with the plan of using Migration Assistant to bring all my dad's files, settings, etc over. The problem is that when I open Migration Assistant and try to migrate from the USB Time Machine backup drive, the drive doesn't show up in the list.
I have also tried restoring from the Time Machine backups that were made straight after the upgrade to Mavericks as I have exported copies of the calendars now and that was the only issue at the time but when I do that the restore fails after about 4.5% progress.
Any help would be amazing as my dad runs two small businesses with the computer and the down time causing quite a few issues.
Thanksin advance!

If you synchronize any of your calendars with a server such as iCloud, disable that synchronization. Quit Calendar.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Calendars
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Enter Time Machine and restore that folder from the snapshot you want.
Relaunch Calendar and test. Your calendars should be as they were when the snapshot was taken. If you don't sync with a server, stop here. If you do sync some of the calendars with a server, select each one in turn and then select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export…
from the menu bar. You'll get ICS files with the filename extension ".ics". Re-enable sync. Usually, all the calendars you just restored will be deleted. That's not a problem. Create a new calendar on the server for each one you exported and want to sync:
File ▹ New Calendar
Then import the calendar from the corresponding ICS file by double-clicking it. Follow the prompts to import the new events to the calendar you just created. For calendars that you don't want to sync, just import them again. They'll appear in the calendar list under On My Mac.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Why doesn't Migration Assistant recognize my backup disk after rolling back to Mountain Lion from Mavericks?

I rolled back my OS from Mavericks to Mountain Lion and now the Migration Assistant isn't finding my Time Machine backups. Any idea why this is?

One reason may be a different computer name. Check System Preferences > Sharing and make sure your computer name has been the same through all your various OS X iterations.

Migration assistant to transfer data from PC - Windows 7 to MAC Book Pro running Mavericks

Hello Gurus,
I am having toruble using the migration assistant to transfer my data from my PC windows 7 to MAC book pro Mavericks.....
The MAC window for migration assistant keeps searching the source computer..... and windows PC says waiting for the MAC to connect...

I had the same problem, I solved it by turning off the firewall on both the PC and my MacBook Pro. It worked immediately after that. Hope that solves your problem too.

Problems with the Migration assistant from a case-sensitve MacPro/Mavericks to a case-insensitive iMac5K/Yosemite

Hello
My previous Mac was a 2008 8-core 2.8GHz MacPro with Mavericks and a case-sensitive file system.
I received my iMac5K yesterday and attempted a migration.
I was surprised to see that my 1.5TB of data went through the FW800/TB link within 6 hours.
Actually it skipped many things including my Aperture library, my iTunes directoy, my Video/FCP project directory and, most importantly my mail...
This morning I tried to start a new migration assistant using my Mac Pro's USB3 Time Machine backup hooked to the iMac.
The iMac could not see it at all.
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Thanks for your help: there's all my life on this Mac Pro, and I want it tranfered to this better, modernersystem.
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Did you try a Spotlight search?
I actually found the files but everything is all over the place in private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000 (yes I don't know what this is)
/cleanupatstartup/SMSsandboxTools-tmp/users/(user) and there they are.
Seems like a complete wipe, reinstall, and try it all over again is in order.

How migrate all mail (boxes and accounts) from 10.6.8 on Mavericks (without Migration Assistant)?

How migrate all mail (boxes and accounts) from 10.6.8 on Mavericks (without Migration Assistant)? Install the system (10.9.1) on a blank disk, copied the program and set up manually. Mail accounts and folders does not work to install and configure. Migration Assistant does not want to use, as it copies everything, and you only need to e-mail. Read a lot, but nothing works.

Try reindexing the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Reindex messages.
If that doesn't work try deleting MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3.
Quit the application.
You need to look in your user Library. Either hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command and select your user Library in your home folder or use the Finder “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mail Data/MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3. Move the file to your desktop.
Open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the file from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return thefile to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you prefer to make your User library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
Show User Library
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.5. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

Mavericks Migration Assistant - Migrate user data to a separate user drive?

I have a question about upgrading to Mavericks with a separate user drive that I haven't been able to find an answer to, so I thought I'd ask for some guidance before actually trying to attempt it.
I have a late-model Macbook Pro (A1260) running 10.8.5 happily with 2 hard drives inside - a smaller SSD boot drive let's call BOOT 1 DRIVE, and a larger drive I use for my user folder which I'll call USER DRIVE. Now it's time to upgrade to a little larger SSD let's call BOOT 2 DRIVE. I have Mavericks already freshly installed on it (10.9.1) with a temporary blank user account. The MBP boots fine into the drive connected externally so I know it's all ready to go - all I have to do is swap out the drives and I'm good on the OS.
Now the tricky part: I want to transfer my user data from my old system 10.8.5 to the new 10.9.1 and ultimately have it reside in the same fashion - on the larger USER DRIVE. How do I do this? A few scenarios I ponder:
A) I'm assuming because this is migrating from an older system to newer system, you can't just create a new user in 10.9.1 with the same user name and point it to the existing home folder in USER DRIVE, but instead have to use Migration Assistant to transfer and update 10.8 user data to 10.9 user data?
B) Locially, you would boot into BOOT 2 DRIVE (10.9.1), and use Migration Assistant to transfer user data from the old 10.8 system (the system knows that the user data resides on USER DRIVE) to the new one but there's not enough space on the new BOOT 2 DRIVE to house all the data and even if it could, then what ? - transfer the user folder directly to a clean USER DRIVE and then point to it?
C) I have both BOOT 1 DRIVE and USER DRIVE cloned on separate volumes, so I could boot into BOOT 2 DRIVE, wipe clean USER DRIVE, and then migrate from the cloned drives - except in Migration Assistant, it says to transfer from "another Mac or Time Machine, or a startup disk". Would I be able to pull from the USER DRIVE CLONE and then have Migration Assistant write to the freshly wiped USER DRIVE?
Perhaps I'm overthinking this? Google pointed me to this post which seems to have some of this information covered even though it feels dated. Reading through it makes me believe that Senario A is actually my closest bet with some user account name swapping or something? Is it that User data doesn't need to be "updated" for the newer OS and you can just create a new user account with the same name and point it to the older USER DRIVE?
Any advice from the mac smarts out there would be appreciated.
Thanks!

SOLVED!
In case anyone stumbles upon this and is wondering what I did:
My hypothesis was correct - waaayyyy over thinking it.
I installed BOOT 2 DRIVE, swapping out the old BOOT 1 DRIVE. Then I renamed the new account to the same name as my previous account, users -> advanced options -> and pointed to the same home folder on USER DRIVE.
DONE
Initially, I made a new account and screwed things up a bit - after reading the post of the above, understood that the new user account should have the same UID as the previous one....
Anyway, all good now - happy camper.

How to use Migration Assistant from OS 10.7.5 mac to new mac Maverick?

Got a new imac. I'm trying to use Migration assistant from my non-Maverick imac to the new one. I'm told that I have to update my former mac, but it's too old to update to Maverick.
So, how can I use Migration Assitant to transfer files?
Thank you.

The easiest method is to use the Time Machine backup from your old computer and connect it to the new machine. Then launch Migration Assistant on the new machine and use the TM backup HD to migrate to the new machine. DO NOT do this wirelessly, your profile indicates you have a Time Capsule, if you use that for your TM backup then connect it via eithernet to your new iMac to do the migration.

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