Migration Assistant reports HUGE home directory and won't transfer it

I'm trying to use the migration assistant to move to a MacBook Pro from an Intel Mini. It refuses to move over my home directory because it thinks it's 180,000,000+ GB in size!!!! I freekin' wish! Anyway, has anyone else run across this? Any suggestions? I'm about to just do it all by hand...i can't seem to get around it. No matter what i search for on the forums + "migration assistant" gets me the same results every time...very annoying...

i wish it were that easy but no, FileFault is off...

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