Migration using fire wire or wi-fi.

Bought an iMac and want to transfer the files from Mac Book Pro to it. Salesguy suggested using a fire wire. Started the migration app and the transfer is taking several hours. Both are connected to my wi-fi. Should it take this long? Is the wire being used? The salesguy made it sound like it would happen quickly. Thanks!

The problem is, Apple dropped some windows for the setup of Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant.
Before Lion, after selecting From Another Mac, you'd get a window where you could select FireWire, Ethernet, or WIFI.
For some reason, now the From Another Mac option is network only (I think it will use Ethernet if it's connected, otherwise WIFI). But to transfer via Firewire, you must select From Time Machine or other disk. Apparently, you're supposed to figure that out on your own, since Target Disk Mode makes the old Mac look like an external disk. (Wonderfully intuitive, no?)
That's covered in the Help for Migration Assistant, but there's no Help button in it's menubar, so you have to hunt for it.
Oh, and they dropped the Learn More button, too.
By the way, if you created a user account, then used the Migration Assistant app (rather than using Setup Assistant when prompted at startup), it will not put the data in the account you created; it will be in the account you transferred, and that account may not have permission to any files it may have on other drives.
Sigh.

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