I hard restart after "less than a minute" wait for 30mins.

Im really curious of this will have an impact on my OS as it turns out it just stuck in that notification, so I hard restart it.
My problem is, is there any negative impact to my macbook pro of what I did?
I can use Mavericks fine as I can see, but I'm not sure if I did something not good that will cause future problems.

my recommendation stems mostly from what others have replied to similar posts. I personally think it is probably done, and a hard shut down and restart will probably work. but also see this good reply from WZZZ
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5050660

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I ended up having to force quit by holding down the power button after waiting 4 hours to see if it would resolve itself an load.
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I am migrating to a MBP Retina running latest 10.7. I am using migration assistant to import a user from my new Time Capsule. It's stuck on "Less than a minute remaining" for over a few hours that I noticed it. What should I do?
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my recommendation stems mostly from what others have replied to similar posts. I personally think it is probably done, and a hard shut down and restart will probably work. but also see this good reply from WZZZ
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5050660

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-Click on the Apple menu and select "System Preferences".
-Click on the "Energy Saver" icon.
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Hi !
I hope someone could help me with this problem...
I think I've tried everything... CMD+Alt+P+R / CMD+R / ... SMC...
I'm a little lost because I can't access to the computer (it shuts down before arriving on the desktop). I've also tried to access just to the hard drive by connecting 2 Mac with Firewire cable... And the same problem appears. The iMac is also shutting down to soon to backup anything...
Is there someone who has experienced the same problem ?
Thanks !
Best regards,
Jonathan.

Hi Jonathan..
Just to rule out any hardware issues, might be a good time to run the OS X Lion: Use Apple Hardware Test

HT4796 My computers have been saying less than a minute remaining for like 3 hours now, any suggestions?....

Does anyone know anything about this??
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So I have plugged inthe USB drive used for the time machine backup and I am migrating from that. Estimated time - 58 minutes.
What a waste of three days!!

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Migration Assistant 'Less than 1 minute remaining' Solution

Hi all..
I have been reading the problems people have been having regarding Migration Assistant and the dreaded 'Less Than 1 Minute Remaining' screen than never goes away and I found a solution for it so you don't have to go through all that!
I recently upgraded my 24" Late 2008 iMac to a new 27" iMac and wanted to bring all my files over to the new machine as most of it is photos and Final Cut Pro plus related editing software!
I did the whole connecting both macs up on the same network and even connected the ethernet cable for faster transfer but after hours of showing promise, it hung up on 1 minute to go. After leaving it for 4 hours, I gave up but here is the best way to do a hassle free transfer.
Back up all the files on your old machine to a hard drive in Time Machine form. I had 320 gigs to do so it may take 4 hours or so to do the back up.
when this is done, disconnect the drive from the old machine. On the new machine, connect the hard drive, open Migration assistant in Utilities and select BACK UP FROM TIME MACHINE!
Mine took about 1 hr 40 mins to complete and it works like a dream.
Sincerely hope this helps people

Press and hold the power button for a few seconds until the power shuts off, then release, wait a few more seconds, and press it again briefly to restart. Test. If the migration wasn't successful, see below.
1. Migration may stall with "Sharing Only" user accounts
2. Back up the old system with Time Machine or Disk Utility and try migrating from the backup.

I hard restart after "less than a minute" wait for 30mins.

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