Migration Assistant Problem in Mountain Lion

I just purchased a Mac Mini Server (i7 quad core with 16GB memory and 2 750GB drives). The machine seems to work well and is quite fast. My problem is when I try to migrate everything off of my Macbook Air 13" using Migration Assistant. With both computers (Mac OS X 10.8) connected to the same LAN segment (either wired or by 802.11n) and apparently talking on the LAN properly (no packet loss on pinging the host router), I follow the on-screen propmts for MA and the source computer is found. When I start the migration though, I consistently get a dialogue on the "to" machine (Mac Mini) that states that the MacBook has "stopped responding" and the whole process hangs up. Exiting the MA apps on both sides reveals that each machine appears to work normally on the network with no indication of LAN communication issues. Has anyone seen this behaviour or have any practical solutions to suggest?
John

Use Disk Utility on both to Verify the Drives, what does it report?

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No, you cannot migrate directly from Tiger to Mountain Lion as described in HT4889 - Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant are both broken in 10.8.2 and the procedure in HT4889 does not work.
What you can do is either upgrade your iBook G4 to Leopard and then migrate from Leopard to Mountain Lion, or migrate from Tiger to another machine running Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion and then to your new machine running Mountain Lion.
In theory it is still possible to purchase OS X Leopard directly from Apple as a special order if you call them or something like that. Don't pay $200 to scammers on eBay, please!!
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at least that the operator has confirmed to me that he called me. I also have problems with either the start of the mac with the power off. I can not understand if it crashes or is just very very slow.
Finally, I have a problem with the external hard disck. I often said to have been ejected incorrectly (not true) and I start to restore the startup recovery disk because disk utility is ineffective from the normal operating system .. is a shocking thing, but how you reduced. in four years it had never happened. seem to have windows or worse. Wake up.
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Use the "File" menu to get to Import. You are not on Windows 7 or Vista, and don't have to put up with the nonsense added for Aero.
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Why not turn off the Windows firewall and uninstall any other firewall software you have installed?
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Wlan problem unter mountain lion

Hallo habe mich spät zum Upgrade auf mountain lion entschieden.
Seitdem bricht die Verbindung zum Wlan (router entweder Telekom oder Time Capsule) ständig ab.
IPad und IPhone haben diese Probleme nicht.
Das ist sehr ärgerlich. In Verschiedenen Foren wird das Problem scheinbar schon länger diskutiert.
Gibt es eine finale Lösung????

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Migration Assistant problem: Lion to Lion does not work

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The user name (account) was the same on the source and the new computer. Is this why the data could not move over? I did not see this user account in the list of users presented by migration assistant. Thought it was default so that is why it wasn't shown. I can move the data over manually, but this was a surprise. Any feedback on why this happened?

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