Trouble with migration

Is there anyway to remove what I migrated to my new MacBook? I now have abunch of stuff I didn't want. I am very inexperienced with all this.

Hi Karen
You would be better off posting in this forum http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1219
As this one is for Apples instant message software iChat.
Tony

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I had to make a clean install of osx 10.6.8 on itself. before that I madea backup on external HD with TimeMachine. Now, the Migration Assistant reads the content of backup disk but it does not start transfer. Any suggestion? tks

armando francesco wrote:
Tks for the answer but the trouble persists. After checking , calculating, and displaying the amount of GB to be transferred, Assistant is stuck right on the screen in Your reply. You can press the button Continue but nothing happens. I have waited for a long time (more than 1 hour) but still nothing else happens.
It's possible the backups are damaged. Try to repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Why did you do this in the first place? Could there be other problems, such as hardware, that were causing trouble? If so, that may be the difficulty here. You might want to run this: Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test. Run the Extended tests(that may take an hour or so, depending on how much RAM you have). Write down any error code(s) it shows.

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Hi,
I have a macbook pro running 10.5.8 and just got a new macbook running 10.6.1. I'm trying to run the migration assistant. It gets to the point where it says 'preparing information' on each computer and then it seems to just hang. I've let it go for 45 minutes and nothing happens past that.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Susan

I'm not sure what you are doing so try this:
On the old computer do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
With both computers turned off connect a Firewire cable between them. Boot the old computer into Target Disk Mode. After the TDM screen appears boot the new computer normally. After the new computer has started you should find a drive icon for your old computer on the new computer's Desktop.
Open Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder. Select the migration option (should be already selected) to migrate from another computer or hard drive. Then follow the onscreen instructions. For additional help select Migration Assistant Help from the Help menu.

I'm having trouble with Migration Asst.

I am in the process of migrating files and settings from my old G4 to my new Mac Mini. In the "Select a Migration Method" window I clicked "From a Time Machine backup or other disk". When I click "Continue" I get a window which says "Select Your Disk" but the spinning wheel in the disk selection pane spins without ever recognizing a disk. The backup disks are mounted on the desktop but I can't find out how to select one of them.
I am using a Firewire 400 external drive with 4 backup partitions. The FW 400 drive is connected to my Mini FW 800 port via a Newer Technology FW 400 to FW 800 adapter.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Joe

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I just bought a new Macbook Pro. I have 2.5 year old Macbook pro, running OS 10.4.11. I'm trying to use migration assistant to move everything, but no luck so far. I first tried through the wireless network (knowing it would be slow), but I couldn't get my new computer to see the old one - it would get as far as giving me the passcode to put in the old computer, I'd put that in, and then it would just say preparing or something like that. I waited about 30 min with no luck. So then I went to 3 stores, and eventually found on that sold firewire 800 cables. I tried migration assistant with the firewire option - I get as far as rebooting the old computer and getting the firewire symbol and that's it. The new Macbook pro just keeps saying waiting for computer to reboot. I did upgrade my software on the old Macbook. Not really sure what else to do at this point. Any help would be much appreciated!

Here's a link that might be helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
Good luck!

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My G-4 (OS 9.2.1) flat screen went dark. I want to transfer important files from the G-4 Tower to my new I-Mac OS X (10.4.9). I launch Migration Assistant from the I-Mac. I've got the firewire connected from the G-4 to the I-Mac. I restart the G-4 and hold the T-key on the keyboard down during startup. The Migration Assistant software on the I-Mac indicates it's waiting for the "disks" to appear --- and they don't appear. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

There's no need to use the migration assistant to move OS 9 stuff. Just boot the iMac, hook up the G4 to the iMac, boot the G4 in TDM mode, and when its HD pops up on the iMac's screen, double-click on it, and drag & drop everything from it to the iMac. IIRC, the migration assistant only deals with OS X.

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I'm working with an ethernet cable. The program starts to run but stops after a few hours.

Thank you so much. I tried your suggestion and it worked!
Thanks again,
Tony

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Not sure if I am in the correct forum. I am trying to migrate information from my old faithful g-4 iMac to my shiny new MacBook Pro. I performed all of the steps as instructed, I don't find any of the files on my new system. I was expecting photos, documents, music, etc to be part of the migration. Was I expecting too much? If anyone could assist, it would be appreciated.

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HI there.
I'e just switched over to iMac and trying to move files etc from my PC.
after downloading the windows migration software, i get this message
You can’t open the application “WindowsMigrationAssistantSetup.exe” because Microsoft Windows applications are not supported on OS X.
what am I missing?
(I'm using OS x 10.9)
thank you

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Trouble with Post Migration Scripts

I try to run the volrepair script but am getting errors. I have run the Update NDS option from nssmu but still now luck.
ccs_fs1:~ # /opt/novell/migration/sbin/serveridswap/scripts/repair/volrepair.rb -a admin.ccboe -p darabc -f /var/opt/novell/migration/
Information: Checking NSS status ...
Information: Getting GUID for NSS Pool ADMIN
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H "ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe" "(&(CN=CCS_FS1_ADMIN_POOL)(objectClass=nssfsPool)) " "g uid" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for pool ADMIN
Information: Getting GUID for NSS Pool APPS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H "ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe" "(&(CN=CCS_FS1_APPS_POOL)(objectClass=nssfsPoo l))" "gu id" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for pool APPS
Information: Getting GUID for NSS Pool SYS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H "ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe" "(&(CN=CCS_FS1_SYS_POOL)(objectClass=nssfsPool ))" "gui d" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for pool SYS
Information: Getting GUID for Volume APPS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H "ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe" "(&(CN=CCS_FS1_APPS)(objectClass=Volume))" "guid" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for Volume APPS
Information: Getting GUID for Volume SYS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H "ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe" "(&(CN=CCS_FS1_SYS)(objectClass=Volume))" "guid" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for Volume SYS
Information: Updated NSS Pool objects successfully
Information: MPVGUID v1.1 - Modify Pool or Volume GUID
List is Empty, there are no Volumes
GUIDModify failed, status -1
Failed to Parse the XML from Buffer
Information: Updated NSS volume objects successfully
Information: MPVGUID v1.1 - Modify Pool or Volume GUID
List is Empty, there are no Volumes
GUIDModify failed, status -1
Failed to Parse the XML from Buffer
Warning: The following NSS Pools does not exist on the source server. Use "nssmu " option "Update NDS" for these Pools to repair.
Warning: ADMIN
Warning: APPS
Warning: SYS
Warning: The following NSS Volumes does not exist on the source server. Use "nss mu" option "Update NDS" for these Volumes to repair.
Warning: APPS
Warning: SYS

$(UYou need to have the same set of pools and volumes on the source server and target server (atleast the names should be identical).
The error says the pools or volumes that exists on the target server doesn't match with those on the source server.
Try updating them from nssmu or iManager.
Refer section "9.0 Preparing for Transfer ID -> 9.1. Prerequisites " of http://www.novell.com/documentation/....html#bookinfo
-Ramesh
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From:
dmilam<[email protected]>
To:
novell.support.open-enterprise-server.migration
Date:
05/03/2010 11:06 PM
Subject:
Trouble with Post Migration Scripts
I try to run the volrepair script but am getting errors. I have run the
Update NDS option from nssmu but still now luck.
ccs_fs1:~ #
/opt/novell/migration/sbin/serveridswap/scripts/repair/volrepair.rb -a
admin.ccboe -p darabc -f /var/opt/novell/migration/
Information: Checking NSS status ...
Information: Getting GUID for NSS Pool ADMIN
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H
"ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe"
"(&(CN=CCS_FS1_ADMIN_POOL)(objectClass=nssfsPool)) " "g uid" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for pool ADMIN
Information: Getting GUID for NSS Pool APPS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H
"ldaps://192.168.0 ..6" -x -D "admin.ccboe"
"(&(CN=CCS_FS1_APPS_POOL)(objectClass=nssfsPoo l))" "gu id" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for pool APPS
Information: Getting GUID for NSS Pool SYS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H
"ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe"
"(&(CN=CCS_FS1_SYS_POOL)(objectClass=nssfsPool ))" "gui d" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for pool SYS
Information: Getting GUID for Volume APPS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H
"ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe"
"(&(CN=CCS_FS1_APPS)(objectClass=Volume))" "guid" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for Volume APPS
Information: Getting GUID for Volume SYS
Information: Executing LC_ALL=en_US;ldapsearch -LLL -s sub -H
"ldaps://192.168.0 .6" -x -D "admin.ccboe"
"(&(CN=CCS_FS1_SYS)(objectClass=Volume))" "guid" -W
Error: Failed to get guid for Volume SYS
Information: Updated NSS Pool objects successfully
Information: MPVGUID v1.1 - Modify Pool or Volume GUID
List is Empty, there are no Volumes
GUIDModify failed, status -1
Failed to Parse the XML from Buffer
Information: Updated NSS volume objects successfully
Information: MPVGUID v1.1 - Modify Pool or Volume GUID
List is Empty, there are no Volumes
GUIDModify failed, status -1
Failed to Parse the XML from Buffer
Warning:The following NSS Pools does not exist on the source server.
Use "nssmu " option "Update NDS" for these Pools to repair.
Warning: ADMIN
Warning: APPS
Warning: SYS
Warning: The following NSS Volumes does not exist on the source server.
Use "nss mu" option "Update NDS" for these Volumes to repair.
Warning: APPS
Warning: SYS
dmilam
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Trouble with Time Machine (runs constantly). Erase and install?

Trouble with Time Machine (runs constantly). Tried re-installation (equivalent of archive install) of Snow Leopard. Time Machine still unable to complete a back-up. Erase and install recommended at Genius Bar. Have backed up data to external HD using Super Duper. Should be a bootable backup. Last successful backup through Time Machine was 6/1/11. Not sure if I can access this back-up if I erase and re-install.
Computer shipped with Tiger (7/2007). Have original disks. Now running Snow Leopard. So: erase HD, install Tiger, then update to Snow Leopard? Start-up from Tiger disks does not appear to work (starting up holding "C" key). Suggestions? Want very much to transfer data to new iMac, but do not want to carry bugs forward. Very nervous about erasing HD. And have the questions above about reinstalling system software.
Advice desired! Thanks.

Well if you can hold option and boot off the Superdupes clone and it works fine then you should be set to do what you need to do to the original boot drive.
Disconnect all drives and c boot off the Snow Leopard install disk, use Disk Utility to Erase > format HFS+ journaled your internal boot drive.
Quit and reinstall OS X Snow Leopard, setup (do not use Setup/Migration Assitant!) and update to 10.6.8
When you setup the new install, use the same hard drive name and user name as you did before.
Now the free iLife that came on the Tiger disks you won't get naturally, but you can pick them off the disk with the shareware program called Pacifist.
install your programs from fresh sources, this way you don't get the "crap" from the older setup.
Once your machine is up and going. Hook up the clone and transfer your user folders over manually. With iTunes just replace the whole folder. Because you kept the same user and boot drive name as before, the playlists should be fine.
Once your all peachy, take the opportunity to clone this new setup to a external drive, label and disconnect.
Make another clone for day to day, or week to week clone updates and your just a hold option boot away for recovery.
You know Superdupes and Carbon Copy Cloner both have auto-scedualing/updating ability, so you can leave them plugged in and it will perform a update so your clone stays fresh and recent.
But you should keep a clone timed back about a couple of weeks back just in case you install something bad and don't learn about it right away.

I'm having troubles with Mail. Some mails (in particular to gmail addresses) are not sent.

I'm having troubles with Mail. Some mails (in particular to gmail addresses) are not sent. When sending an email, Mail apparently works for a while but does'nt sent anything. I repeated sending the mail with the same result and 2 or more mails in the draft folder. Yesterday I discovered that the mail had been sent 4 times!. Now I have the same problem: the mail has not been sent, it appears in the draft folder, I try to delete it but the mail remains in the draft folder. This happens after updating to Mac OS X 10.7.2 and migrating to iCloud.
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Hi everyone. I'm migrating my site from simple, square html
to nice, elegant css. I've done most of the work, but I'm having
some trouble with templates. Here's an example of how a page
created with a template will (hopefully) look:
http://www.technfun.com/temp/example.html
I've succeeded in making the article region (inside the white
frame) editable, but I can't figure out how to handle the side bar
menu. It's supposed to contain links to the chapters and
subchapters of the main article, so that clicking there will bring
you to the right place in the page (a simple # link, in other
words). However, the article writer (me) needs to be able to add as
many "SidebarLarge" entries as necessary. Under each of those there
may or may not be the need to add "SidebarSmall" entries for
subchapters.
I read the help file and figured out I need to do something
with the optional and repeating region settings, but whenever I try
I only ever manage to make a mess of the sidebar. Anyone can tell
me how exactly I'm supposed to do this?
Thanks :)

Why not just make the whole sidebar an editable region
instead? Then you
can add as much stuff as you see fit.
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> Hi everyone. I'm migrating my site from simple, square
html to nice,
> elegant
> css. I've done most of the work, but I'm having some
trouble with
> templates.
>
[url=http://www.technfun.com/temp/example.html]Here[/url]'s an
example of
> how a
> page created with a template will (hopefully) look.
>
> I've succeeded in making the article region (inside the
white frame)
> editable,
> but I can't figure out how to handle the side bar menu.
It's supposed to
> contain links to the chapters and subchapters of the
main article, so that
> clicking there will bring you to the right place in the
page (a simple #
> link,
> in other words). However, the article writer (me) needs
to be able to add
> as
> many "SidebarLarge" entries as necessary. Under each of
those there may or
> may
> not be the need to add "SidebarSmall" entries for
subchapters.
>
> I read the help file and figured out I need to do
something with the
> optional
> and repeating region settings, but whenever I try I only
ever manage to
> make a
> mess of the sidebar. Anyone can tell me how exactly I'm
supposed to do
> this?
> Thanks :)
>

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