Problems w/ Migration Assistant

I just got my new MacBook Pro in the mail and foolishly launched into it without doing much reading up... I used Migration Assistant to move everything from my Powerbook G4 over to my new MacBook Pro. The transfer got to the "about 2 minutes" remaining point and then more or less froze. After about a half an hour I unplugged the firewire cable and the computer sprang back to life (after a warning about disconnecting a drive), and asked me to set up a user account etc.
Now I have 2 admin user accounts on my computer, the one from my old Powerbook and the one that the setup assistant had me create. My other problem is that I had Migration Assistant transfer all of my programs, including ones that don't run on my new intel computer and others that I don't really need any more.
My question is; 1) can I delete one of the user accounts and then delete the individual programs one by one, or 2) Since it is a new computer and all of the stuff on it is also on my old computer can I just some how wipe out the hardrive on the new computer and transfer the stuff again, this time being ore judicious about what I transfer?
Thanks...
15in Powerbook G4 & now a MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi jvancil,
Sorry to hear about your problem.
You can use either option (i.e. deleting the second account or erasing the drive and re-installing OS X, then using Setup Assistant/Migration Manager again).
-mj
[email protected]

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Hi folks-
I bought an iMac this weekend and for various reasons did not configure with data from my MacBook Pro when I first turned it on, but waited until two nights ago to use Migration Assistant to transfer all but users.
I updates both machines fully with Software Update first. MigAsst went fine until I hit the begin option and after a few minutes the iMac told me there was a problem with my MacBook Pro (MBP). I quit MigAsst on the iMac but even after an hour I couldn't escape it or quit the MBP, so shut down using the power button.
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With gratitude and blessings.

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I believe that there must be a setting to change the login properties for the user to not look for a FileVault user, but for a plain, non-encrypted user. So please, somebody from Apple answer this questions!
Command line very welcome, because I only have a command line user right now. And oh, my MBA didn't ship with a boot DVD so I don't even have the chance to reinstall my system easily. Also, getting my data out of the FileVault on my current machine, transfering everything again (almost 250 GB) and then putting them back into FileVault seems a bit too much effort for what appears to be a simple bit set somewhere…

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Hi, I used Migration Assistant to move my account on an iMac G5 to a new Intel iMac. I ran the assistant from a user with the same name as the user I was transferring. Of course the assistant told me I had to rename the imported account, which I did. Once migrated, I created a new admin account, deleted the original admin and renamed (also the shortname via a procedure found on the Apple site) the new imported account.
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If your old machine is an iBook, the Migration Assistant likely won't always work. Many have had issues migrating from PowerPC to Intel with the Assistant. Instead, this user tip is recommended:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0

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I have just wasted more than 4 hours trying to transfer all my information from my G5 iMac to my new 13-inch aluminium MacBook using an ethernet cable and the 'Migration Assistant'.
Perhaps someone here can enlighten me as to why this has been such an unmitigated disaster and where I went wrong.
I followed the instructions exactly as to how to proceed - this is what happened ...
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Can someone please tell me whether I should simply do yet another Erase and Install (and waste another day of my time) or whether there is some way I can locate my missing data?
Needless to say, I never had these problems when I could connect one Mac to another using a Firewire cable and transfer my data via Firewire.
I'm sorry if I have made some very basic mistake here, however, I thought that if I followed the instructions as to how I could transfer information 'from another Mac' it would 'just work'. How wrong I was!
Tricia

Thank you for the suggestion Doug. A few extra hours of digging today resolved my problem.
I remembered that, when I initially started to transfer the data the Migration Assistant threw up a warning to the effect that the user name I was transferring from the iMac already existed on the Mac Book (am I the only one who uses the same long name and short name on two machines???). Naturally, the MacBook has to have the user's name set up before the Setup Assistant or the Migration Assistant can be used to transfer files and folders from another Mac. I recall that the only option that allowed me to proceed with the transfer was to change both the long and short names on the iMac (the machine from which I was transferring the information).
This prompted me to check Macintosh HD/Users.... I was surprised to see that, apart from the account I had set up on the MacBook there was a second user (with the new short name from my iMac). This User had folders for Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Music and Pictures (all of which had the little red circle with the minus sign in the lower right hand corner of the folder).
So, I logged out as my normal user name and then logged in using the user name from the iMac and ...voila ... my iTunes music folder, my iPhoto library, my documents and all the applications on the iMac had been transferred to the MacBook under my iMac user name.
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markwmsn wrote:
...It's not the twenty bucks, it's the principle of the thing.
Not sure what you meant by that statement. Although this "principle" may be more important to you than the twenty bucks, I know that my time is worth more to me than your twenty bucks!
What apps are you using?
markwmsn wrote:
I was able to install Snow Leopard (client) in a partition, and it was able to migrate users and many applications from the G4 clone on the portable drive. Some of the apps even run.
Then I went back to my SL Server virtual machine and tried to migrate FROM the SL client partition. Migration Assistant showed the same symptoms as importing from the clone directly (no apps offered, bogus "dup user" errors). I am forced to conclude that either (a) Migration Assistant 3.0.4/1.1 is broken when run on SL Server or (b) my new SL Server installation is broken. I'm either going to have to boot back and forth to run the old apps or find their installation media and reinstall them in my SL Server virtual machine.
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Hello all and thanks in advance for any advice!
We've recently had a macbook pro hard drive die and had to send it off to have the data recovered (no time machine backup). I've installed the new harddrive and set up the operating system and so we now have a functioning mac - but I'm having trouble migrating data from the recovery hard drive.
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Or is it because I'm connecting with USB and not thunderbolt? (in the apple 'instructions' it says to connect with thunderbolt)
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Could I create a TM backup from the machine as is and then add data into it? Although the two are on different OS so maybe this wouldn't work?
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Thanks - Just tried that and it did find something to repair.
But still not recognised in Migration Assistant.
I've done a TM backup on another external disk and the assistant sees that - but that's no good because it only contains what's already on the computer!
TBH it's just a couple of applications I want to migrate over, because it will be easier than trying to get the codes again - is there another way??
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What I did - did an erase and install of Leopard a second time, because, if you don't use setup assistant to migrate, you seem to be stuck with two identities. Then followed the steps and opened the window and turned on a fan behind my computers - and waited, and waited, and waited, waking the iMac up occasionally when it went to sleep. Reinstalling Leopard took less than an hour, but this file transfer took nearly three. And it's a total mess, again. I'm really, really fed up, and am at the point of just sticking with the eMac and lending the iMac to the library. This just shouldn't be so hard!
(And this sort of thing is why I don't like Leopard. ))

Problem using migration assistant to transfer from iBook G4 to new Macbook

This is probably a very simple issue but I am a luddite. I can connect the old iBook and new MacBook by firewire and commence the migration assistant process. However, towards the end of the transfer I get a message saying that there has been a problem and I need to check all connections. The Macbook is wirelessly online (via Time Capsule) but the iBook is not online - is this the problem? Or is it that the iBook software (OS 10.3.9) is out of date?

You're lucky it isn't working. I would not use MA. You may end up overwriting Intel files with PPC files causing your computer to become dysfunctional. Instead connect them via Firewire. Boot the iBook into Target Disk Mode and the MacBook normally. The iBook's drive should appear on the MacBooks Desktop. You can then manually transfer your files. The following will help you with what you need to copy:
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From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
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/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.

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I've just got a macbook pro running lion and am having difficulties transferring through a network from a macbook (running latest version of leopard) onto it.
It just keeps telling me to update migration assistant on my macbook, which I've tried doing but it already says it's completely up to date.
I've tried checking that filesharing/firewall etc. is enabled on both.
Does this mean I have to get a firewire cable? What do I need to do?
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