Migration Assistant Useless

Ok. So this can't be right.
I am migrating from my MacBook Pro to new iMac. Firstly via wifi network and then via Ethernet cable.
Either this piece of software doesn't work and is a completely pointless waste of time, or it's just playing with me and flipping me off.
I'm on my third attempt at this now in 3 days. Each time it freezes below 10% and goes no further. Now either something is wrong, or the former Russian space station Mir us more technologically advanced than this.
Which is it?

First of all, you have to make sure you are using Migration Assistant correctly.
How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac
Per your system profile, your "new" iMac didn't come pre-installed with Mountain Lion?
Mac OS X (10.7.5), iMac

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I used Migration Assistant to copy data to an new MacBook Pro from an old via my Time Capsule. When asked if to inherit time machine history on the new Mac, I mistakenly said no. How do I go back one step to say yes?

There isn't enough space on the Time Capsule to create a separate backup of the data on the new MacBook. And I am reluctant to delete old backups of the old MacBook to create space to backup the new machine. This occurred about 3 weeks ago so the data on the two machines are now out of sync. If I start over by formatting the new MacBook and rerunning Migration Assistant to pull data from the Time Capsule, how do i preserve the last 3 weeks of data on the new MacBook, considering that I didn't keep track of which files changed in the last 3 weeks?

All the rest of the stuff is where it should be. As best I can tell. I have been going through my programs one at a time to see what works. With the change in the OS (Launchpad? What the heck?) I am finding a significant number of my old programs are not working. Some I have found upgrades. But without a working mail program, the machine is pretty useless for work.
The Apple techies had me run through 3 hours of 'stuff' (holding down keys and restarting, etc, etc). It still does not launch. I think we are waiting for a 'miracle', but I need to know now if they should just come get this piece of junk or if they really are able to find a solution in a timely manner.

VMware Fusion 3 Migration Assistant to migrate physical PC onto existing VM

I posted this on Twitter: VMware announces VMware Fusion 3 details for Mac OS http://bit.ly/43BLHJ
Good to see Fusion 3 coming. I have a question about its Migration Assistant and wonder if anyone can answer based on their use of the assistant in version 2.x
I wonder if it means installed applications on a physical PC are also copied over fully functional to the new virtual machine or just user settings and documents from the PC?
I have an HP Pavilion 17" laptop I despise (noisy hard drives and fans actually can bring on headaches). So this would be good to migrate to my MacBook Pro.
The problem then is, is there a way to migrate the external physical PC onto a VMware based set up I already started using or if that set up will become redundant? Anyone have ideas?
Imran

According to the Migration Assistant dialog, programs, computer settings, and documents will be copied. It requires that both the Mac and the PC be on and connected through the same network.
For your info, VMWare also offers a free stand-alone utility that does what I think you're looking for. It's called VMWare Converter, and it can be found here:
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
(For all I know, this is what the migration assistant uses.)
It can be run from the system you want to convert or (more ideally) you'd run it to copy the system that you want to convert, without the operating system actively running (basically, run the converter from another computer and have the hard drive with the OS to be virtualized mounted). It takes a while, but it ultimately produces some virtual machine files that can be used by VMWare.
I've used it once before, when I was switching my fiancee over from a terrible HP Pavilion laptop (15") to a Macbook. It was rather incredible - her entire system was cloned perfectly, and easily accessible through VMWare Fusion. Some useless utilities could be removed (things like special keyboard control software and Intel's wireless client manager, as the hardware that those programs utilized was no longer there) but otherwise all data and programs were copied perfectly. You'd never know that it was a copy of a real machine, it was so perfect. Really fantastic stuff.

Permissions problem after using Migration Assistant - unable to copy files

I have a PowerBook G4 and 2 iMac G5 desktops - one iMac at home and one at work. I've had the iMac at home and the PowerBook for a while. The iMac at work is one I've just inherited from another user. Both are exactly the same model - 2Ghz iMac G5 (ambient light sensor). All 3 machines are running Mac OS X 10.4.6.
I decided to use Migration Assistant to transfer my Admin user account on the PowerBook to my work iMac G5, all of which worked great. So I now have an exact copy of the user folder from my PowerBook on my work iMac G5, and consequently the same combination of username/password.
When I mount the drive from my PowerBook on my work iMac via AFP I can copy files from the PowerBook to the iMac. But if I try to copy the file back to the PowerBook I receive the error "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items". The file does appear on the PowerBook, but it is 0K and therefore useless.
Worse, if I'm replacing a file on the PowerBook, I get the usual "An item named "blah" already exists in this location..." dialog. If I click Yes to replace the file it is wiped, but then the permission error pops up leaving me with a 0K file on the PowerBook and no original.
If I mount the work iMac drive on my PowerBook I see exactly the same issue - i.e. I can copy to the local machine from the mounted drive. But I cannot copy anything back without receiving the permissions error.
My home iMac G5 was not set up using migration assistant, but I do use exactly the same combination of username/password. It does not exhibit the same behaviour. I can mount the PowerBook drive on the home iMac and happily copy files back and forth with no permission errors at all. And the same if I mount the home iMac drive on the PowerBook - no problems.
So I'm guessing that this behaviour is a result of using Migration Assistant to create the user account on my work iMac. If I log into another account on my work iMac, mount the PowerBook drive and copy a file to the PowerBook it works fine. The problem only occurs in the account created by Migration Assistant.
Does anyone know how to resolve this, short of having to create a new user account on the work iMac and move all my files from one account to the other?
PowerBook 12" G4 867Mhz & 2 X iMac 20" G5 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi,
you need to adjust the permissions for the files on your harddrive.
I think you have serveral users in different groups that may result a permission conflict.
- Put or copy your files you want to to a new folder.
- Use this tool, its easy to use for ppl that are not familiar with unix permission setup over the terminal: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6440
- give all files recursively all permissions (for testing) (777, owner, group, others)
- then test the copy procedure
this should help
Regards Thorsten

Migration assistant power PC G5 to macbook pro intel

Hi, my experience with migration was not plug and play but there's some tricks. First get to the desktop of your new computer. Choose a firewire cable (800 if possible for faster transfer) and connect the two mac together. Rebbot the old one holding «T». When you see the firewire sign on the monitor of the old mac, you're ready to rock! First, my primary disk didn't mouth on desktop, I change the firewire cable, nothing happen. You have to open disk utility (then my primary disk of the old G5 mount on the desktop) you repair the disk (all of them) and then you open the migration assistant. IT take a while before (6 minutes!) before the application is ready to process (like a pre-scan or something like that... so be patient.) I tranfer 80 GB in 40 minutes. I didn't transfer the applications however... It the only part you have to do manually (too much problems for me...) Finally, if you want transfer your apps anyway, get the xslimer apps that will remove every powerpc code useless for your intel. Hope it will help and enjoy the next generation of mac!

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Migration Assistant fails or freezes every time

2008 iMac running Mavericks to a new iMac over ethernet connection.
I have run software update on both iMacs, I have run "repair disk" and "fix permissions" on both.
Every time i run migration assistant, it never completes. it looks like its running, and the esitmated time left begins to count down, but eventually it just stays at 2hrs remaining, or 2hrs 30 minutes remaining. And I let it run for 15 hours.
I am forced to reboot the computers to get them back, and the new iMac has NO data transferred, and the old Mac remains as is (as expected).
Also, Time Machine fails on the 2008. I have tried to run time machine to more than one firewire drive.
Not sure how to proceed.

Sounds like you've been through the ringer . After Apple replaced FW with Thunderbolt my boss tasked one of the techs and me to investigate alternatives. We both found WiFi useless for anything more than a couple GB of data and even then we experienced too many failures to recommend it. Theoretically migrating with Ethernet should be a good choice but once again we experienced failures we couldn't explain. That led us to recommend users back up via clone or TimeMachine to an external drive and migrate using the external drive.
That should have ended the matter but I've since added a qualifier to that recommendation; a USB external drive may be your best option. We've always known that some FW chipsets were flaky but an additional layer of flakiness has been added with the Thunderbolt/FireWire adaptor.

Insufficient space for importing TM backup with migration assistant

First of all this is not for my main Mountain Lion installation on my Mac Pro, it is on a VM Ware Fusion virtual Mountain Lion installation that is running on my Mac Pro also running Mountain Lion. So this is really more a question dealing with VM Ware Fusion (or Parallels since I have the same issue with that as well) vs. a problem with Mountain Lion. Confused yet? I sure am....
I am trying to import a time machine backup of my previous Snow Leopard drive into my virtual machine. I did not want to import this into my new drive because I am starting fresh and trying to clean up and Snow Leopard had 10 years worth of crus I am trying to get rid of, but I would still like to have my old SL drive running within VM Ware to help with the transition. I have a Mac Pro with a dual monitor set up so I want it to run in my second monitor and very slowly over the next few weeks get all the files I want and need instead of just importing a bunch of useless crap.
Anyway, here is the problem I am having and cannot seem to get past this hurdle. When I open migration assistant inside VM Ware ML and choose my time machine backup of snow leopard everything works fine until it finishes calculating the size. I deselected all the files and folder I possibly can which leaves 209GB. Even with every single folder deselcted it still give an insufficient storage error I have already resized the VMware drive to 400GB which is more than enough. In my real machine under Finder>Get Info it shows it as 400GB, but within the virtual machine it is only showing the Mac HD to be 40GB which won't allow migration assistant to import the backup due to insuffient storage.
I have a Mac Pro with tons of disk space so I have plenty of free space to allocate but I have tried everything I can think of but came up blank. Sorry if my explanation was overly verbose or confusing but I wanted to give as much detail as possible. Haven't really fiddled with the settings in VM Ware in a while so I must be missing something.
So, how do you import files showing as larger than 40GB from a time machine backup with migration assistant without getting an error that there is not enough remaining space? And again, I have already resized the disk to 400GB that shows as 400GB on my real machine but only as 40GB inside the VM Ware Mac HD. I also have Parallels if that is easier to do what I am trying to accomplish.

I just solved the problem! And this is actually a pretty big deal because experts at the VM Ware Fusion website and many other forums told me it was impossible.
So here is the guide to running Mountain Lion in VM Ware Fusion or Parallels with a partition larger than 40GB and allows you to import an old user account from Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, etc..
1) Make sure to shut down Mountain Lion in VM
2) Under VM settings expand hard drive to whatever size you like
3) You will need either a disk image or an actual DVD of mountain lion, mount that in your VM and choose it as start up. After rebooting open disk utility and partition Mac HD. Instead of only showing the 40GB limit it shold now show the size you created from step 2. Close disk utility and install Mountain Lion as normal. Reboot and unmount disk image.
4) You now have a virtual Mountain Lion with whatever hard disk size you chose.
5) Open migration assistant and do your time machine back up as normal from previous systems.
The reason you might want to do this are many. In my case I wanted to have my old Snow Leopard user account open and running on my second monitor since I just did a fresh install on my Mac Pro. It is easy to import audio, photos, videos but there was a lot of other things I want to take my time bringinging over. There are also many cases where I needed to open up an app and view settings. Now I have my old machine essentially running at the same time as my new install side by side which is fantastic.

Restore from Time Capsule using Migration Assistant

When I try to restore my backup from Time Capsule using Migration Assistant it cannot find any backups on Time Capsule HDD.
Time Capsule works just fine, using TC Application I can restore single files, there is also XXXXXX.sparsebundle file on Time Capsule HDD which I can mount with no problem and see all of my backups.
Where is the problem?

Hi,
I just ran into the same problem, neither the Migration Assistant nor "Restore from Backup" from the 10.5 Install DVD would find a valid backup on my Time Capsule (which kinda renders it useless).
After some googling and trial and error I found a workaround using Terminal. I don't know why mounting the sparebundle image with Disk Utility wouldn't work, but it isn't available when your computer crashed anyway... So here is my method:
-Boot from the System DVD, choose the language
(-Goto Utilities and start the Disk Utility and reformat your drive, if on Intel check that you partition it with GUID, NOT Apple Partition Scheme NOR MBR, restart from DVD) only if something went wrong with your disk like in my case
-Goto Utilities and start Terminal
-In Terminal first make a directory for the mount, type: mkdir /Volumes/MyBackup
-Then mount the Time Capsule and link it to the folder you created, type: mount -t afp afp://myuser:mypassword@IPAdressOfMyTimecapsule/VolumeWhereMyBackupIs /Volume/MyBackup
-The AFP-Volume is now mounted, but you can't see anywhere.
-Quit Terminal, this will bring you back to the 10.5 Installer.
-Goto Utilities and choose "Restore System From Backup"
-The Dialog will ask you for a Backup Source. You should now see your Time Capsule and an already mounted Time Machine Volume at the location you specified in Terminal.
-Select the Time Machine Volume and press Continue, it'll take a while you show you all the backups, choose the one you want, choose a destination, drink tea.

Does Migration Assistant use the most recent time machine backup?

About to transfer my old macbook pro harddrive to my new imac..and when im in migration assistant it allows me to select ALL applications (not individual ones unfortuantely) to transfer from my time machine backup...curious, does it transfer all apps I have ever had on all my backups? - there is probably 20 different backups. I have cleared a ton of useless apps off my MBP and did a fresh backup hoping those would be the only ones to get transfered?
Thanks

Only one version is transferred, the last saved one.

Migration Assistant: Complaint/Warning

-I recently decided that my installation of OSX was irreversibly contaminated with many test installations, updates gone wrong, and partition getting to small for OSX, and its apps. After reformatting the drive of choice, and zero leveling the data, I installed a Clean OSX Tiger. Then I proceeded to copy over only what was needed from my old installation, Preferences and such. Since Im the Admin, I did not want contaminated settings and applications getting moved associated with my account or System Level files.
Once all updates were acquired, everything was moved to my liking, I then Moved my other user profiles. Ones that have nothing added to them and should have been safe to move, only needed their own User Unique files.
Migration assistant should have only moved files directly related to those profiles. Or so I thought. But no, it copied many of the Main non user Folders, at System Level and anything in them not already on the destination drive, from the old drive, including the Library folder and its unique files.
So now all my careful work to avoid moving corrupted files has gone in vein. Everything done is Irreversible, short of starting from scratch again!
-Course this isn't the first time something like this has happened.
As I was backing up files on my OS9 computer, I used the File Synchronization Control Panel to be sure all files were copied over to the backup.
When next I looked, the synchronization manager which was supposed to be running in one way mode, had decided that many of the Files didn't exist and it erased them Permanently since they were not on the originating drive. To this date that computer sits, as is, until I can figure out how to resurrect my lost files from the depths of binary death.
-My warning is, beware ANY software that HELPS to move files for you. You run the risk that it will do as it thinks best, and you will get more than you bargained for. Also in both cases this was Apple Software, not 3rd party.
Also I have ALL the Utilities. They rarely peform miricle recoveries. Infact they often fail to recover a File you errase, just to see if it can be recovered!
-Of course this would be a Little Simpler if I could actualy backup OSX. But somehow even the Most highly regarded software fails to Accuratly duplicate the OS. I can only imagine that this was some kind of built in File Protection. Unfortunatly its made a Nusance of itself.

I have to admit that I haven't used "Carbon Copy" yet. But I've used the antiquated DejaVu and DiskUtility, and Toast. Then I use either Disk Utility or Toast to compare the Disks. Some how theres usually sever hundred files missing. Every disk I've made as backup and Tried to boot was corrupt... I believe these utilities all encounter Authentication/Permissions issues, and ignore said files.
I miss the days when all I needed was to Drag and Drop the System Folder. Open and Close, to have it blessed and restart. I miss the days when the System was as simple as Finder and System, and the OS actually fit on a 512k floppy! Now a DVD barely seems to Hold the Girth.
-Of course I should note, that for whatever reason Booting from a CD and Booting from a HDD, seem to be vastly different animals, and the subject of this in itself is an entirely separate topic.
And just for the Point of making off topic points:
I've run Both Disk Utility and Disk Warrior on the OSX Tiger disk. They both say its damaged. This of course was on a new disk, with New current utilities. All attempts to Duplicate the original disk and FIX the error have resulted in a NonBoot Copy which is useless as a backup. I suppose though, that every one is so worried about 10.5 that trivial issue with the 10.4 CD is just that, Trivial. Perhaps the Error, is not an error at all.
I use my OSX installer once every several month because over time, various Installations and Even system Updates bug up the system. I then Zero Level the Disk, and install a new on a Different partition, or HD. My concern is that in the past CDs have occasionally become scratched on the Painted side. While this is no big deal for Most CDs, Installers are especially Critical to be kept top Condition. OS9 had a bug in the "Big System Morsels" package that people most often mistook for a scratched CD, and Back then I Sprayed on a Heavy Clear Enamel to protect the Disk, as well as made a Duplicate just in case. But today I have a DVD burner, Tools to Fix many disk errors, and DL DVD-RW. I prize the DL DVD-RW for backups because aside from snapping them in-two, almost NO scratch can harm them, with the Extra Layer of clear Acrylic on top, the Reflective layer is no longer exposed.
Perhaps I should post the CD thing in its own Topic...?

TimeMachine / Migration Assistant and a different UID, but same username

Hello there,
I am going to do a clean reinstall of my Macs with Mountain Lion (no need to discuss clean install vs. upgrade, please). During this shift the goal is to transfer all accounts into Open Directory. While keeping the account names, the UIDs will be different.
Doing a clean install, I can see no use in restoring all stuff in a users profile, for some is old, useless and maybe the related application is long gone. But there are a couple of items worth to be saved, for sure: emails, contacts, calendar, favorites, iTunes library, the users documents and very important: purchased Items from iTunes or App Store and the keychain of cause. Users agreed, that they can rebuild settings of other applications, not listed before.
Will the Migration Assistant the right path to go? Can I use a TimeMachine Backup and restore it for a user with the same name, but a different UID using the Migration Assistant? Will there be any pitfall for purchased items or the keychain?
Thanx for your help
COWegner

COWegner wrote:
Can I use a TimeMachine Backup and restore it for a user with the same name, but a different UID using the Migration Assistant?
No. Migration Assistant restores user accounts and data (although you can omit some broad categories). It won't "merge" data into an existing home folder.
When it does that, it will preserve the UID on the backups if it can; if the same UID already exists, it will use a different one.
If a user account of the same name already exists, it will require you to rename one of them, or skip it.
Note that, if you use it when OSX first starts up on a new Mac, or after installation on an empty volume, it's called Setup Assistant. The windows are a bit different, but the only significant difference is, since there aren't any user accounts already, it can preserve all UIDs and user names from the backups.
See How do I set up a new Mac from an old one, its backups, or a PC?

After a Lion clean install, how do I retrieve my data from external back-up? Following Apple advice for use of Migration Assistant did not work creating similar issues leading to clean install.

After a Lion clean install, how do I retrieve my data from external hard drive?
Following Apple advice I used Migration Assistant which crashed new system twice which is why I had to clean install Lion in the first place.
Is there a sure way of doing it?
I have only a few programs that I will have to install myself and that should not be a problem.
I just want my data, music and photos back where I can use them.

Time machine backups. I went to migration assistant a few hours ago and limited my selection to "users", no need for applications, settings and other files. Stuff started moving over at a fast pace but has now seemed to stall.
I will let it run overnight as there are lots of songs and photos as well as a few movies.
If that does not work, then I will go into TM and try restore. I have restored some things in the past such a mail files and it has worked well.
The Apple fellow at the store told me to go right into TM, he may have had a point. I'll get it eventually.

I transferred data from my external hard drive to my restored Mac Book Pro via migration assistant and now my external hard drive in time capsule has red minus signs. How do I get rid of that without getting rid of any of my data?

I used Migration Assistant to transfer my data from my external hard drive via Time Capsule to my restored Mac Book Pro. When I now go into Time Capsule I there are red minus signs in the corner of all the folders that are contained in my back up. How do I get rid of this and access my previous back-ups?

Select the drive and Finder > Get info and at the bottom "ignore permissions on this volume"
You can copy the files, but the ownership on the files still belongs to the other user account, once your done copying, then perform a #6 Reset Users Permissions and that will set all the ownership to that account.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Another method is to copy the entire folder, then change it's permissions.

Migration assistant stopped working and has left me with 100gb in 'other'? How do I delete 'other' and what is it exactly?

I recently invested $2000 (one week ago) in a Macbook Pro Retina 2014 2.8ghz 512gb. Dont get me wrong, I am in love with my product and am extremely satisfied but I have honestly encountered nothing but issues.
My first issue was the transferring of data from my 2010 white macbook 500gb. Both laptops have Yosemite installed and are 100% up to date but I have spent the last week getting them to talk to each other. I am not new to the workings of Apple but I have never endeavoured to use applications such as airdrop, migration assisstant or even bluetooth.
My first attempt was to transfer 200gb of files (Photos mainly, I'm a photographer) to my other laptop via a 64gb USB in segments. But after an hour and only 10gb getting copied across, I decided other alternatives may be of more help.
That is when I came to my first dilemma: AIRDROP. Airdrop is crazy. Yes I did click the option on my retina to search for older macs and yes they did connect. I can send files from my MBR to my white macbook 2010 immediately but my old macbook will not send files to my retina. Yes all of the necessary sharing settings are in place - both MacBooks have the same settings selected so I cannot figure out what to do. Information on this subject would also be helpful yet it is not the end of my troubles.
Second Issue: Migration Assistant.
So yesterday I discovered this little 'gem'. I am a very impatient person so you can imagine i did not appreciate 20 hours of file transfers (via wifi as i do not have a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor for MBR). Anyway that's all well and good if it actually worked. But of course it did not. I followed apples instructions and I was down to my final 4 hours this morning when my MBR told me the connection was lost and to reconnect. It was making the loudest whirring noise like air coming from inside the hard drive or something. I freaked out. My $2000 machine should not be doing this. It was only a little bit warm; not hot but it was incredibly loud, I'm not sure how to describe it. Keep in mind this computer is brand new so please tell me: WHAT WAS THE SOUND?!?!?!?! AND WHY? what was wrong? what could I have possibly done wrong? My wifi WAS working because my desktop PC was connected. So i waited and waited. Of course I couldn't actually do anything without quitting airdrop and in the end that's just what I had to do. A lot of time wasted for such an unsuccessful cause.
That brings me to my final issue:
So after migration had.... "completed" or crashed or whatever you want to call it, I at least assumed some of the files had maybe copied over and i could just resume from where I left off last time somehow. Oh how stupid that assumption was. My user account did in fact copy over but not a single file copied. And yes, I did log into that user account to check. ANYWAY, I went onto "about this mac" to see my storage info (still being optimistic about my wasted 20 hours). SURPRISE SURPRISE: Yet another problem. I now have 100gb in "other". This macbook is brand new. I should not have any GB in other. I am so incredibly annoyed. HOW DO I DELETE OTHER?! (preferably without downloading software) and is there anything else of importance in other that i should be careful not to delete that is contained within other?
I am only 15 years old and this was a massive investment for me so I treat my Macbook like a baby. And no, I'm not spoilt by my parents. I had to work at Subway for a year to earn $2000 - without spending a single cent (My wage is only $9.00AUD an hour so i essentially worked some 222 hours for this macbook). And I'm not crazy, I needed it for school.
Anyway I'm not impressed with apple. I have Applecare but they aren't open on the weekends or whenever I try to call so that hasn't exactly been helpful. PLEASE HELP ME.

Make a note of all your settings for Wi-Fi in the Network preference pane, then delete the connection from the connection list.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the page that opens.
In the keychain list, an item named "System" should be listed. If it isn't, select File ▹ Add Keychain from the menu bar and add the following:
/Library/Keychains/System.keychain
Now search in Keychain Access for the name of the wireless network (not the name of the router.) Double-click one of the items and check the box labeled Show password in the inspector window. You'll be prompted for your keychain password to confirm. Make a note of the network password. Then delete every "AirPort Network Password" in the search results. Quit Keychain Access.
Go back to the Network preference pane and recreate the Wi-Fi connection with the same settings as before. You do this by clicking the plus-sign icon below the connection list, and selecting Wi-Fi as the interface in the sheet that opens. Select Join other network from the Network Name menu, then select your network. Enter the password when prompted and save it in the keychain.

HT4796 Migration assistant is telling me that it has lost connection with my Mac and to ensure they are on the same network. They are, and an ethernet cable is plugged into them. What do i do?

Migration Assistant has been running since yesterday evening. My Dell is now telling me that its trying to reconnect to my Mac and to ensure they are both using the same network. I have an Ethernet cable plugged in them and they are both on the same WiFi. What can I do?

Hello Wyodor,
thanks for your reply on my question.
You are wright the index file is 308 KB.
And offcourse that I delete my files and documents is not an Iweb problem, but because my English is not that good, that I thougt I try to tell the whole story, and hope people can read trough the lines.
Why I didn't use Iweb to upload to the server is because the server company recommanded to use file zilla. And I am a nobody with this kind of things, so I did exactly what they tell me to do.
No, i did not make a backup of Iweb and the domain file, but reading other messages on this forum showed me that I can maybe try to make empty the cashfile (?)
and otherwise I have bad luck and have to make my website again. Offcourse I have a lot of examples from all the pages (copied from the local map to my USB stick) and my website is aprox. 15 Mb, (not so big) so it will cost me a few nigths.
But I'm still hoping on a miracle :-)
greetings Lasource

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