Having difficulty installing Migration Assistant on my Windows laptop

I am attempting to migrate from windows to mac. i downloaded the migrate-to-mac program onto my windows machine. when i attempt to open the file i get an error message "there is a problem with this windows installer package. a DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. contact your support personnel or package vendor." any ideas on how to resolve this?

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I need to set up iTunes on a new laptop but I don't know how to do it. Migration assistant seems to be only from a windows p.c. to a mac laptop. I want to transfer all my music from old (vista) to new (7). Can I do this?

No. Migration Assistant only works when using OS X on one of the computers. You would have to ask Microsoft Support.
Hope this helps

I am having problems with migration assistant (windows pc to Mac 2011) When I get to the 'Quit other applications' box and click continue, nothing happens. There are no other apps running - any ideas, please?

I am having probems with migration assistant. Trying to transfer data from a windows laptop to iMac 2011. It was working fine when I did the set-up yesterday, but it was going to take hours to transfer some videos so I quit the process with the intention of doing it again at a later stage. However today I find that everytime I get to the 'Quit other applications' box on the Mac and click 'continue', nothing happens. Have checked mission control and confirmed no other apps running. Tried several times with the same result every time. Migration Assistant running on my laptop with the 'Waiting for mac to connect' box displayed. Mac is connected to wi-fi OK as able to use Safari and access internet. Any ideas, please?

Thanks for your suggestions. Have managed to get Migration Assistant working but now have a new problem, i.e. where does it save the transferred files?!! Searched a few forums and it seems it saves it under your old username, or suchlike. Anyway I tried logging on as a new user using my old user name but there were only a handful of files there, couldn't locate the majority of stuff from my old laptop. Anyway I don't intend to go through any more hoops with MA - will just save the important stuff to an external drive and transfer it that way. Not impressed with MA at all. I thought it was supposed to be a user-friendly tool to simplify the transfer from pc to Mac - not my experience, I'm afraid!

I'm having trouble using migration assistant to get data from a windows pc over to a macbook pro mavericks. It can't resolve finding the sources wirelessly.

I have installed migration assistant on the pc. I am running it as administrator. It says waiting to connect to Mac. I am running MS on the macbook pro (brand new) and it found the machine but keeps saying looking for other sources and I can't move ahead. Any ideas?

Resolved. Someone told me verbally what to do.

HT4796 I am getting the message "WindowsMigrationAssistantSetup.exe is not a valid Win32 application" when I try to install Migration Assistant on my PC running XP SP3

I am getting the message "WindowsMigrationAssistantSetup.exe is not a valid Win32 application" when I try to install Migration Assistant on my PC running XP SP3

That's a Windows PC issue. What is the Mac OS X Lion issue? In other words what are you posting in the Lion forums about?

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Hi chukwuka99904147,
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I am having difficulty installing my IP Printer onto my macbook pro.

I am having difficulty installing my IP Printer onto my macbook pro.
I have gone on system preferences and then on to add printer and put in my wireless IP address - which my printer is on, and the name of the printer but I dont think my mac is finding it. As when I go to print using that printer there is an exclamation mark in a triange in front of its name and it says the printer is busy when it isnt.
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I cannot locate the Serial Number of the item I purchased and am having difficulty installing on my computer

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HT4796 Does anybody know why migration assistant fails in windows vista?

Does anybody know why migration assistant fails in windows vista?

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Permission issues after Snow Leopard clean install, Migration Assistant+Time Machine restore.

Hello, here's the situation.
I've done a clean install, for various reasons, I've got backups including one done just before the clean install. Following directions somewhere else I set up a user account called "test" just for the purposes of reimporting PART of my old system, since one of the reasons I did the clean install was to clean up my system (get rid of all those little ghosts of old programs, the old programs themselves, files and settings I not longer want etc.) so I didn't want to just import the whole thing. So I imported just the user account and a few folders such as music and photos that I knew I wanted back on. Then I restarted so that it would log back into my old user account that's been restored using Migration assistant. So far so good. I enter time machine and start restoring Applicatons, their associated support files, a few preference panes, some other files and folders I want back on, so and and so forth. Then I enter my old home folder and see that many of the subfolders I don't have access to, I check their permissions with Get Info and see that read/write access has been granted to my test account, which is ridiculous since it didn't exist when they were backed up. Some searching reveals that on the first Time Machine back-up after a restore like this it should as at the start whether I want to inherit he old backups, so I tell Time machine to do a backup, figure that it shouldn't take much, seeing as there's nothing new, and I've put it all in the same place as in the backup. It doen't give me any such prompt, instead just starts indexing/preparing hundreds of thousands of files, and tells me that the backup should take about 135 gb of space. I stop the backup, give up on working this out myself, and come here. Help?
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The "harddrive" (it's a partition, I've got Windows on the other part) is not named the same as it was in the backups, would this affect it?

I'm not familiar with Lightroom.
Where is the "Lightroom 2 catalog" folder in the second message, and what are it's permissions?
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Hiya, so I just purchased a macbook pro and I want to transfer files using Windows Migration assistant.
However whenever I go to do it, the mac connects to the computer and the computer always stays on 'trying to connect to mac'
and sometimes this windows pops up where it says:
'Email
There is no email program associated to perform the requested action. Please install an email program, or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel.'
I'm confused as I have an email program on the pc ( Windows Live Mail)
However I don't know what it means to create an 'association' and I have gone into default programs control panel to try find this associations and have however I don't know how to make this association as I've searched for the program Windows Migration Assistant, however it isn't there and I'm not sure what to do.
Please help?

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1. Repair Disk http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
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HT4796 Migration Assistant on my Windows XP PC!

New Macbook Pro, needing to migrate all my files from my old Windows XP PC laptop. Migration Assistant on my PC has finally loaded after copious updates, but won't run as the PC believes that Outlook Express is still running, when it's not!
Restarting doesn't work, Task Manager's processes show nothing for outlook express, but the migration assistant does show as running there. Apple support say the issue is related to Windows, so they can't help. I'm a bit miffed as Migration Assistant is an Apple product, but I suppose it is beyond their remit as the issue IS IN my PC (friggin' Bill Gates and Windows - I thought I was saying goodbye to them at last!). I have no external hard drive, and would be loathe to do this whole transfer manually anyway.
How do I get it to load up?

Disk storage issues frequently happen if the hard disc is over 85% full. Make sure your trash can is emptied after backing up any files you want to keep elsewhere.

Clean install/Migration Assistant question

Hi,
I'm looking to do a clean ML install (upgrading from 10.7) on a new SSD for a 2009 MacPro. I have a SuperDuper clone of the MacHD on a bootable FW drive. Basically I'm just looking to get Mail accounts and messages, Safari bookmarks, Keychain info and fonts/font families from the existing boot drive and reinstall or manually transfer everything else. Can Migration Assistant handle this? Do I need to create a new user account on the new drive?
Thanks for any help or suggestions!

Setup Assistant, which will open after the installation, will do that and is generally considered more reliable. You will probably need to create a new user to get out of Setup Assistant.

HT4889 Having issues using Migration Assistant taking 200+ hours for 60 gigs.

I am transferring from my source which is running Lion to my target which is running Mountain Lion. It is taking 200+ hours with the ethernet connection. Is firewire faster? Help!

Thanks for the reply,
I didn't understand exactly what to put into AppleScript sorry (never used it before) - so I just ran the following from the Terminal:
$ echo $UID
$ sudo chown -R 503 ~
And restarted - everything works now - thanks heaps.
What had happened and is this something I did or did Migration Assistant just get confused?
I have 3 new Mc Pros to setup on Monday so just want to ensure those are hassle free.
Cheers
Ben

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