Migrating data from MacBook Pro 2010 to MacBook Pro (+retina) 2013
I am transferring data from old MacBook Pro (purchased in the fall of 2010) to a new MacBook Pro with retina display (purchased November 2013). I connected the two via FireWire on one end and the thunderbolt/FireWire adaptor to thunderbolt on the other. I was prompted to connect via Ethernet but the new MacBook has no Ethernet port. Now, 12 hours after the migration was initiated, the process appears to have stalled. The progress line is about half way and the time remaining has been reading 1h20min for a while. I am transferring ~320GB. Since I have no way of checking on the progress, I don't know if it's just taking this long or if it stopped.
Would anybody recommend that I still go get the Ethernet/thunderbolt adapter and connect via Ethernet in addition to the existing connection via FireWire/thunderbolt?
Thanks.
I just got a new iMac on January 2nd, and moved 320GB worth of data from my external Time Machine backup drive (a Firewire drive connected to the new iMac via the Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter) to the new iMac in about 3 hours or so. This was all done via Setup Assistant, not Migration Assistant (which can be run later on for those in a hurry to use their new Mac).
It almost sounds to me as if you're transferring everything via WiFi.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2007/03/07/get-the-user-profile-through-moss-web-services.aspx
http://codesupport.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/sharepoints-userprofileservices-getuserprofilebyname-method/
http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/infopath-basics-3-ways-validate-data-infopath.htm
http://henry-chong.com/2010/12/infopath-validation-gotcha/
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