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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What you should be able to do is simply copy everything that's in the home folder under iTunes from the old computer to the same spot on the new one - just drag and drop. That should bring over all your music & your playlists. You shouldn't have to use Migration Assistant for that.
I did that during one of my many moves from one computer to another, but I have not tried recently. It won't hurt to give it a try.
~Lyssa

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Resolved. Someone told me verbally what to do.

HT4889 I am using migration assistant from my old macbook pro to my new imac, but it seems to have stuck about 1/3 of the way through. Any suggestions??

Both are on the latest version of MacOS (made sure I had them completely up to date before starting).
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Disconnect and connect your Ethernet cable. If the migration doesn't continue, restart both Macs and start the transfer again. Wi-Fi and Ethernet are slow so I don't recommend you to use it unless it's the only option you have

Using Migration Assistant on external drive for moving new apps to Leopard

I'm sorry if this has been covered, but I searched and couldn't find the answer on any previous posts.
I am having the infamous "yellow triangle" problem when trying to install Leopard on my iMac. I created a bootable copy of Tiger and all my apps, etc. on an external drive (including Parallels/Windows) with SuperDuper, and I'm planning on trying an "archive and install", and then hopefully using MA to transfer all of my settings and files from the bootable copy of Tiger on the FireWire drive.
Obviously before I go ahead I want to make sure I can do this. Is this possible, and what would the basic steps be?

I didn't know I needed to disconnect the FW drive in the first place. That may be the root of all my problems.
I have been having nothing but problems with this Leopard install on my iMac (though it seems to be working on my Macbook Pro). Here's what happened:
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* ok. So I rebooted and tried it again. From this time on, whenever I tried to install Leopard on the hard drive there was a yellow exclamation, and I got the infamous "Can't install OS X on this volume without changing installation settings" (basically erase and install)
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Yes definitely should see it but its not coming up (I don't think) when I log out of 2nd user and into the main account. Opening finder in the 2nd account, I can obviously find the public folder because thats where I dropped all the files, but when in the main account, it can't be found. The only public folder that comes up is the folder for that account (main account) and it does not display files I'm looking for. Frustrating....
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William ..
Alternative data transfer methods suggested here > OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks

Backing up my MacBook Pro using Migration Assistant Issues

So a very long story short, I have to get repairs done to my MacBook Pro which was/is operating on 10.5.8. When I left my computer at the store to be sent out, I backed up my computer with Time Machine, under the impression I could just reload everything during start up. Well this didn't work, There was some kind of issue where I would select my drive and it would return to the welcome video every time. So I just set up an Admin because I was given the option of using Migration Assistant. I did so, but it seems that our of 175 GB of applications, information, setting, and files, only 95 GB would get transfered under my old username/Admin user. I went ahead and did it anyway, and it took about an hour before it said a few minuets remaining. Then about a half hour later, it said my information was transfered successfully. What's peculiar now is that a little window appeared in the Finder titled 'Time Machine Backup', and its been loading 107 GB for the past hour. I'm using USB (which I know isn't the fastest method), and it's going abnormally slow, its been roughly an hour and only 2GB have loaded.
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No idea what is going on & just 2 reasons I never use Time Machine, but are you certain it's not backing up your new Drive & is actually copying from the TM backup to your drive?

HT4889 I just transferred data using migration assistant from a macbook prop to a macbook. I am trying to log back into the user that was on the pro but is now on the macbook with the same password as before, and it says my password is incorrect.

I just transferred data using migration assistant from a macbook pro to a macbook. I am trying to log back into the user that was on the pro but is now on the macbook with the same password as before, and it says my password is incorrect?

Suggest you try the password for the Macbook, not the previous one.

Migration assistant taking over 100 hours using ethernet?

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Gigabit is 10 times faster than 10/100 (the next one down), it makes a big difference. I would check.

HT4889 Migrating data from one Mac to another using Migration Assistant

Hi,
I just migrated my data from my old Macbook to my new Macbook Pro. All of the data migrated as my old user, so now i have 2 users on my computer under my name.
I am wondering how I can transfer the data from my old user (on my new computer after migration) to my new user on the new computer. Any thoughts?

Rachelmischel,
I wouldn't use migration assistant. I recently had to move all of my files from a 2008 macbook to a 2013 macbook air. It took me three days to try multiple attempts with migration assistant. What I did was create a drop box account with my macbook (my macbook air already had drop box installed) and then move files from my macbook into my drop box folder. Once that was completed, I would manually copy my files onto my macbook air. The catch is that you need to be sure your computer sharing is enabled and that you make sure your older macintosh will allow permission to your new macintosh to see its drop box files. Hope that helps!
-Freecalls4j-

HT4889 After using migration assistant I have had problems with some apps that were brought down from App store, as well as IntelliJ that just doesnt want to start at all. Does it have anything to do with the UID being changed?

After using migration assistant I have had problems with some apps that were brought down from App store, as well as IntelliJ that just doesnt want to start at all. Does it have anything to do with the UID being changed?
13-07-03 6:24:12.447 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[1632]: ([0x0-0x5be5be].com.jetbrains.intellij[5805]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 13

What is the exact name of the application you're trying to launch? Is it in the Applications folder?

Permissions problem after using Migration Assistant - unable to copy files

I have a PowerBook G4 and 2 iMac G5 desktops - one iMac at home and one at work. I've had the iMac at home and the PowerBook for a while. The iMac at work is one I've just inherited from another user. Both are exactly the same model - 2Ghz iMac G5 (ambient light sensor). All 3 machines are running Mac OS X 10.4.6.
I decided to use Migration Assistant to transfer my Admin user account on the PowerBook to my work iMac G5, all of which worked great. So I now have an exact copy of the user folder from my PowerBook on my work iMac G5, and consequently the same combination of username/password.
When I mount the drive from my PowerBook on my work iMac via AFP I can copy files from the PowerBook to the iMac. But if I try to copy the file back to the PowerBook I receive the error "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items". The file does appear on the PowerBook, but it is 0K and therefore useless.
Worse, if I'm replacing a file on the PowerBook, I get the usual "An item named "blah" already exists in this location..." dialog. If I click Yes to replace the file it is wiped, but then the permission error pops up leaving me with a 0K file on the PowerBook and no original.
If I mount the work iMac drive on my PowerBook I see exactly the same issue - i.e. I can copy to the local machine from the mounted drive. But I cannot copy anything back without receiving the permissions error.
My home iMac G5 was not set up using migration assistant, but I do use exactly the same combination of username/password. It does not exhibit the same behaviour. I can mount the PowerBook drive on the home iMac and happily copy files back and forth with no permission errors at all. And the same if I mount the home iMac drive on the PowerBook - no problems.
So I'm guessing that this behaviour is a result of using Migration Assistant to create the user account on my work iMac. If I log into another account on my work iMac, mount the PowerBook drive and copy a file to the PowerBook it works fine. The problem only occurs in the account created by Migration Assistant.
Does anyone know how to resolve this, short of having to create a new user account on the work iMac and move all my files from one account to the other?
PowerBook 12" G4 867Mhz & 2 X iMac 20" G5 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi,
you need to adjust the permissions for the files on your harddrive.
I think you have serveral users in different groups that may result a permission conflict.
- Put or copy your files you want to to a new folder.
- Use this tool, its easy to use for ppl that are not familiar with unix permission setup over the terminal: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6440
- give all files recursively all permissions (for testing) (777, owner, group, others)
- then test the copy procedure
this should help
Regards Thorsten

Why is Migration Assistant taking soooo long?

I just bought a new MacBook Pro 13". I decided to transfer most of my stuff from my old iBook G4. I tried to use a firewire cable but MA said "Mac OSX is not installed on your old Mac." Huhhh? That machine has never seen anything but OSX...
So I use an ethernet cable directly between the two computers. That works. Except that it is taking INSANELY long. I am only transferring about 30 gigs and it has been going for 6 hours and says it will need 8 more! What can possibly take so long??? When I transfer files over my network using the same cables, 30 gigs takes maximum 30 minutes I think....
Thanks,
Bo

Okay a few things here - first if you're using mavericks on both machines you don't need to do anything with target disk mode. Just using migration assistant on both machines connected by thunderbolt is enough.
Second, I have a 2011 MacBook Air and it does have a single thunderbolt port. Pre-2011 may have been the mini display port.
Finally, and the reason I stumbled onto this, the thunderbolt connection works wonderfully fast but there's some kind of bug in migration assistant that defaults to the wifi connection if both machines are connected to the network, even if you have a thunderbolt cable connected. I'm transferring a 2011 MacBook Air to a new rMBP and just discovered this issue. I connected with the thunderbolt cable, it estimated around an hour for about 80gb of data then inched closer to 36 mins as the estimate.
At some point along the way though migration assistant decided wifi would be better and the estimate jumped to over 20 hours. I unplugged my router (only solution for me once both machines had migration assistant running) and it seamlessly defaulted back to thunderbolt where the estimate cut back down to 30ish minutes.
The thunderbolt cable being worth the extra money or not is I suppose a matter of opinion but for me it's got plenty of other uses to justify the price and certainly made this transfer a lot faster. I just wish migration assistant wouldn't default to wifi without any kind of indicator.
So I assume too late to help you out but hopefully someone will see this and fix this bug and maybe it'll be helpful to someone else as it's still an issue as of right now.

Mail did not migrate using migration assistant

I just used migration assistant to transfer all data ans settings from my old MBA to my new MBP Retina. Everything seemed to have transferred well except for Mail. I have no accounts in Mail and need to set up every mailbox all over again. Did something go wrong? How do I transfer my mailboxes to my new machine without having to set everything up again? Both machines are on Mavericks.
Thanks!

I had the same issue.
1. Quit Mail (if it's running) on new mac if it's running.
2. Go to your /[username]/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
3. Rename file "Container.plist"" to "Container.plist.old" (confirm when asked about extension)
4. Launch mail.
If it works, yay! If not - then revert steps above.

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

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