HT2518 I have Windows Migration Assistant running and it is asking for me to go to Mac and open Utilities Folder... BUT on the Mac I had already started the TF process... it saw my PC, I chose it and now it says "Select the information to Transfer"

Windows Migration Assitant is running on my PC; the Mac is running "Select the information to transfer" so I can't follow the instructions from Windows Migration Assitant. It seems like I should stop the new Mac?

You need "sysinternal's process explorer", it is free and can replace the Microsoft process explorer, that you get by "CTRL+ALT+DELETE". Either program will allow you to kill the instances of FF that didn't die as they should have, when you closed them. Sysinternal is easier to use, it is a graphic display with many options. Do not push "CTRL+ALT+DELETE" twice unless you want to reboot, that is its default behaviour under Microsoft.

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HT2518 i have used migration assistant to move emails in outlook to mac but some of emails moved without contents, any solution for this problem?

i have used window migration assistant to move emails in windows pc to mac. mails mostly moved without problem but some of them moved without content. i tried to find out if there is anything common in these emails of problem but cannot identify any hint. please help

The Dropbox folder is a subfolder of the home folder, which has the same name as the user account. It's under the Users folder at the top level of the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.)

HT4796 on my windows XP pro PC i opened windows migration assistant and the first message is: "Cannot start Outlook Express. The application can not initialize the storage. The computer doesn't have enough memory or your disk is full. (0x80007114)"

on my windows XP pro PC i opened windows migration assistant and the first message is: "Cannot start Outlook Express. The application can not initialize the storage. The computer doesn't have enough memory or your disk is full. (0x80007114)"
On my windows PC outlook express is NOT running and as far as i know, NOT installed.
How do I install Outlook Express??
I want to use my new Imac.....

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.

Need help with Windows Migration Assistant, as a window pops up and I don't know what to do?

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?

OS X 10.9 Mavericks/ 10.10 Yosemite
1. Repair Disk http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
2. Reset PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14222
Best.

Can't run Windows Migration assistant on Vista

I downloaded Windows Migration Assistant to my computer, it has Windows Vista sp2 and when I click the file with the ".exe" termination, a mesage appears telling me that there's an error and something about a paralel configuration. I really wish you can help me because I want to move all my files to my new Mac ASAP.
Thanks!

Shootist007 wrote:
Which files are which???
That should be fairly apparent. Word, Excel, image and music files all have there own and different extensions. Not only that the owner of the computer should know where all those files are located on there older computer.
With most Windows version by default all those files get stored in the My Documents or in the Documents folder on later version of of Windows, Vista and Win 7. Although on 7 and Vista there are separate folders for Music, Pictures and Downloads.
That is if they have not placed them someplace else. Which for me I varely rarely use the default, OS selected, place to store my personal files, music and images and even if I do I move the My Documents and Documents folder to a different drive then where the OS is installed. I even do that on Mac. There is nothing in the OS X Documents folder or the Pictures or Music folder under Users on my Mac.
The default location for all files is C:\Documents & Settings\User Name\My Document that is in Windows XP.
On Win Vista or 7 it is C:\User\User Name\Documents.
Maybe I'm wrong! I forget the majority of computer users have no idea where all there files are. They just know they are on their computer, somewhere.
So I'm going to butt/bow out of this topic and suggest to the OP that he somehow get the Migration assistant working. And if he can't I would be hapy to assist in any way I can.
In that vane try downloading the Windows Migration Assistant software again as I think the first time the file got corrupted.
I think that you meant to reply to the OP rather than me, I am not trying to move any files, but thanks for the informaion.

HT4796 I can not get windows migration assistant to work on my Sony Viao running windows 7

I can not get windows migration assistant to work with Sony Laptop running windows 7.

Hello,
- What did you do so far ?
- Do you have any error messages ?
You will find a lot of useful informations on this page :
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796

HT4796 I'm transfering info from my old pc to my new macbook pro, using Windows Migration Assistant. All was fine but has now lost connection (wifi) and won't reconnect. Mac is showing transfer window and I cant escape, I'm new to mac.

I'm transfering info from my old pc to my new macbook pro, using Windows Migration Assistant. All was fine but has now lost connection (wifi) and won't reconnect. Mac is showing transfer window and I cant escape, I'm new to mac

You'll need to erase the drive by booting up holding command-option-r keys into your Recovery Volume.
Use Disk Utility to erase the disk and then Internet Recovery. That will take a while.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

HT2518 Where do i find the Windows Migration Assistant I'm supposed to download on my PC from Apple (step 2)?

Where do i find the Windows Migration Assistant I'm supposed to download on my PC from Apple (step 2)?

http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/migration/

Lion Boot Camp Windows Migration Assistant Recovery

"Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation"
The disk has a non-standard Boot Camp partition setup, where further partitioning was performed after running Boot Camp Assistant, or the configuration that Boot Camp Assistant created was manually modified
Recovery HD is not needed to install and run OS X Lion
You won't have the on-disk utilities for disk repair
If you use Boot Camp, you can run Boot Camp Assistant after installing OS X Lion to create a new Boot Camp partition, then restore the data from the backup you made of your previous Boot Camp partition.
You can also use the OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store to create an external bootable drive, complete with a Recovery HD partition. See this article for more details. (404 on lnk). Create Lion Recovery Drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649
OS X Lion: About Windows Migration Assistant
Last Modified: July 20, 2011
Article: HT4796
Summary
With OS X Lion, you can migrate all of the information from your old Windows PC to your new Mac. Lion automatically transfers your contacts, calendars, and email accounts and puts them in the appropriate applications.
To migrate information from a PC to your Mac
Download to the Windows PC the Windows Migration Assistant installer from here. (broken link)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796
About Lion Recovery
What to do if the installer warns that no Recovery HD can be created
Some disk partition configurations may result in the OS X Lion installer reporting that it could not create a Recovery HD. In these situations, even if you are permitted to continue the install, you should quit the install and create an external, bootable OS X Lion hard drive with a Recovery HD, first. You will be able to return to the upgrade to OS X Lion on your computer's boot drive after creating the external Recovery HD.
Your storage device must have at least 13 GB available (after formatting) to install Lion and an Internet Restore partition.
Restart your Mac and hold down the Command key and the R key (Command-R), and keep holding them until the Apple icon appears, indicating that your Mac is starting up.
After the Recovery HD is finished starting up, you should see a desktop with a Mac OS X menu bar and a "Mac OS X Utilities" application window.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
(I would love to see Apple - Support - with a category "Knowledge Base Articles" and from there "Newly added and updated" sub-category, especially with so many new articles being added and updatec)

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Windows Migration Assistant very slow via ethernet cable but after 36 hours .......

I am using Windows Migration Assistant to migrate from my 3 year old HP laptop running Windows 8 to a brand new iMac using an ethernet cable..
The pairing went well but, after 36 hours the laptop tells me there are 13 hors to go and iMac says 8 hours +. What am I doing wrong?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Wi-Fi and Ethernet are very slow ways and I don't recommend to use them unless you have to transfer small sizes. If they are big, don't use it.
What you can do is to make a Time Machine backup on your old hard drive, so get an external drive to do it. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
After making the backup, connect the external drive to your new iMac and use Migration Assistant to restore your files. If you haven't set up your iMac yet, Setup Assistant will ask you to restore the backup.
You have to restart both iMacs before doing this, so migration will be stopped

I have used migration assistant but new profile is created, how do i merge into one

I have recently purchased Mac book and have used migration assistant to transfer files from my old windows PC.
Due to some issues when using migration tool i had to transfer in segments, each time i did this a new user was created.
I have asked for some help and was advised that users cannot be merged however the files can be shared via dropbox.
I have received instructions as to how to do this but am stuck as once I get to the point of dropbox, I do not know what step to take next to add files into dropbox?.
Below are instructions
Pick a User Account your going to keep, make sure it's a Admin account and if need to, log into another Admin account and make it so in System Preferences > accounts.
One logs out of their current account by using the Apple menu > Log out.
Next while in one of the accounts your later planing on removing, go to the Finder > Go > Computer and window opens.
Open the MacintoshHD partition, then the Users folder and the User Account you plan to keep, then the Public folder and then locate the DropBox folder for that User. Any files placed in there will change permissions and be accessible to that user when you log into it.

The Dropbox folder is a subfolder of the home folder, which has the same name as the user account. It's under the Users folder at the top level of the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.)

Windows migration assistant created 2 accounts on my Mac

Windows migration assistant created 2 accounts on my daughters new Mac,
In a hurry to set up my daughters New Macbook Air we downloaded the Windows Migration Assistant when migrating we unticked music and videos intending to migrate them at a later date and migrated everything else.
Then today a week later we decided to migrate the music and videos across and was amazed to see the software had created a new separate account on the mac.
So my daughter has one account with all her coursework and other info then a separate account with all her music and iTunes etc.
There was nothing in the process that suggested or warned it was a one time tool per account and why the code writers would assume a new account was needed each time the tool is used seems a rigid approach.
Does anybody know if there's a way to get the music and videos over to the first account and then delete the unneeded second account?

While it surprised me what to migration did with transferring the old files, it really out smarted me - to no real surprise.
It might have been nice to have known what to expect. Now that this is done, how can I keep some files separate on the two different accounts.
I want access to some files on one account but not on the other. Shared files, maybe?
How can that be set up?
Thanks.

Can i use windows migration assistant to transfer files from my windows formatted external hard drive to my mac?

I have a windows formatted external hard drive and a macbook pro. I was wondering if i could use the windows migration assistant to transfer files from my external hard drive to the mac

No.
Just connect the drive to your Mac. The Mac can read most Windows formats (it cannot WRITE Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) formatted drives.

HT4796 windows migration assistant has errors in preparing data on my PC

Hi,
just got my new iMac and want to migrate files from my Windows XP machine using Windows Migration Assistant for Lion. It seemed to install OK on the PC but it will not run. It comes up with an message saying found errors in preparing data. Any ideas?
Peter

Are you using wifi to migrate?

Windows Migration Assistant

Hi there.
Every time I start the software on my Win 7 64-bit I get an erroer about the msoeacct.dll in windows/system32. And then the programm itself tells me I have to close / shutdown Windows Mail.
I don't have Windows Mail open nor any program which could use it afaik.
I also tryed everything to fix the problem. Delete the msoeacct.dll. Install a new one. Put in sme from a another folder in my PC. Delete the Windows Mail folder with the progamm itslef. Deinstall Windows Live Mail, re-install MSIE and so on. But I can not find the error nor fix it.
Pls help me if you can. Thank you.

Hey alistairmck,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you want to know about Windows migration assistant requirements. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
Switch Basics: Migrate your Windows files to your Mac
On your PC, Download Windows Migration Assistant , then open it.
Make sure both computers are turned on and connected to your wired or wireless network. If needed, you can use a single ethernet cable to create a simple network between the two computers.
Click Continue on the PC.
On your Mac, open Migration Assistant by clicking Launchpad in the Dock, and typing Migration Assistant in the search field.
When you're asked how you want to transfer your information, choose "From another Mac, PC, Time Machine backup, or other disk".
Click Continue on your Mac.
When prompted, enter your name and password.
Click Continue to quit other applications. Other applications can't be open on your Mac during the transfer.
Select "From another Mac or PC".
Click Continue.
Once your PC appears in the Migration Assistant window of your Mac, click Continue.
On your PC you should see the passcode that was displayed on the Mac. Click Continue.
On your Mac, select the information you want to transfer to your Mac, then click Continue.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

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