I need Migration Assistant help.

I'm using MA for the first time. I'm attempting to move from an iMac (OSX 10.5) to a Mac Pro (OSX 10.5). I connected the computers via Firewire and rebooted the iMac using the (t) option. The next window that came up was to 'Select Items for Transfer'. I checked 'Files and Folders' (119GB) and Library (61GB). It then reported that my 'Selected Items' = 621.6GB. First question... how does 119GB + 62GB end up as 621.6GB selected?
I have several external drives on the iMac. My plan is to move the contents of those to the Mac Pro internal disks. For example... I have two, 250GB external drives on the iMac with partition names: 'Aux-1' and 'Aux-2'. I would prefer not to chop up the 1TB internal drive to fixed partitions. Preferable would be to use a single partition named Aux which contains the folders 'Aux-1' and Aux-2'. Is there some sort of redirection utility that would allow this? For example a Library entry that refers to 'Aux-1/Myfile' would be redirected to 'Aux/Aux-1/Myfile.

Appears to be an error. Migrate and see what occurs. As for your two externals, just create folders on the MacPro and then drag & drop from the externals to the folders.

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You've got some cross purpose statements. You say you want Tiger on the Intel machine so you can run certain applications, but you say you don't want to to clone because you don't want to erase the Leopard install, or...?
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jlgoolsbee wrote:
* My backups, admittedly, excluded system files, but my understanding is that I should still be able to use Migration Assistant to restore user accounts/files, etc.
I think that's true, but hope once this is sorted out you'll remove that exclusion.
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Yes, that's a failed or interrupted backup. The full restore option, Setup Assistant, Migration Assistant, and TM's "Star Wars" interface will all ignore it.
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That's likely the problem. Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant only look at the last completed backup. (Why nothing else is there is separate mystery.)
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