Migration Assistant refuses goes to restart during migration

Hello! I've been meaning to restore the documents in the Time Capsule backup to my new MacBook Air that I''m using right now but nothing has worked. I have a 2-Tb Time Capsule with a backup files of about 300+ Gb inside the backsup disk. My MBA has 128 Gb capacity thus I need to restore some of the documents in the backup disk (e.g. photos) which only take 50+Gb in capacity. I've selected photos to be migrated into the new MBA using Migration Assistant but it always goes back to restart every single time.
My questions:
1) How do I successfully perform the migration?
2) Will I be able to restore the whole iPhotos (50+Gb) into the new MBA so that the events in the iPhoto will be automatically restored to the way they were before I deauthorized my old MacBook?

Hello,
I have the same problem and I can't find a solution...
please some help...

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ragob66,
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Rdonald wrote:
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