Why is migration tool so erratic and basically useless?

why is migration tool so erratic and basically useless?

It worked for me everytime and everytime i got what i wanted. Maybe you are doing something wrong?
Maybe you are expcting a bit to much...

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Forms and reports migration tools from oracle and other vendors

Can someone through some light about the migration tools available on the market for the migration of oracle forms 10g to 11g?

are there any tools for doing this activity like oracle recommended tools?
Your question is unclear. As IK mentioned, the only tool you need is a new version of Oracle Forms/Reports. Open your v10 modules in a v11 Builder and select Save. You now have a v11 module. Doing a "Compile All PL/SQL" before saving is a good idea, but not required. The Builders and utilites provided with the version 11 installation are the only supported tools for upgrading your application. If you are trying to do the conversion of many Forms files in a scripted manner, you can use the Forms compiler in a script. Generating new "X" files will also update the source modules (fmb, mmb, pll). See MyOracleSupport Note 955143.1
Also included in the installation in the Forms Migration Assistant. Although it is more useful to people coming from older versions, it can also be used to move from v10 to 11. It allows you to select more than one file at a time. Documentation for this utility can be found in the Forms Upgrade Guide.
Using the Oracle Forms Migration Assistant

Why my photomerge tool wont open and a dialog box pops up and wont allow me to close. Please help, I need this tool to do my work

I want to merge several photos together and in both my CS4 and Bridge, it will not open photomerge. A dialog bo opens up that wont let me close it.
Please help.

Exact versions of your OS and of Photoshop, please. Not just "Photoshop CS4".
Machine specs, please.
BOILERPLATE TEXT:
Note that this is boilerplate text.
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
Thanks!

IDVD stuttering, crawling, and basically useless

iDVD 08 with all the updates just "stutters" when running. I have a mini with Leopard, 1.83 Duo and 2GB RAM. I know it's not the system. Everything that I do is about a 3-4 second delay after mouse click. Video and audio in the project menu is just "sputtering". The program has even shut down 3 times this morning while compiling a project. I have re-booted (sorry, old habit from PC days) and get the same result with only this program running.
Does anyone experience the same?

Honestly .... I know zip about TM. But I did do a search for you and these links may lead you in the right direction (I hope):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5662783&#5662783
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5919932&#5919932
(This particular link mentions that .XML" files aren't included in the regular backups ....might you have any of these in your iTunes Library?)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6009951&#6009951
let me know if they help.

Using Sun's Migration Tool

I have been handed a project where the primary requirement is to
convert a Websphere/DB2 application to either Sun App server(or
JBoss)/Apache/M$ SQL Server or some other DB like mySQL.
The
first item I undertook was to get the code (jar files, ear files, etc)
and the DDL files for the database. Next, I downloaded and setup
Eclipse for J2EE development, installed Sun's App Server, downloaded
the Sun Migration Tool and followed the instructions to enable it to
work within the App Server environment. As a test, I randomly grabbed a
JAR file from the pile of code to see if it would run through the
Migration tool. Of course, it threw an exception... but, I'm at a loss
as to what I need to do to move forward from this point. If anyone has
any idea of how to do a migration from Websphere to Sun App Server or
JBoss, I sure would appreciate some pointers... The exception:
Code:
Exception in thread {color:red}"AWT-EventQueue-0"{color} java.util.MissingResourceException: Can{color:navy}'t{color}
find resource {color:navy}*for*{color} bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key ASMTGUI.ErrorMsg
FileDoesnotExists
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:384)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:344)
at sun.iasmt.util.ASMTResourceBundle.getValue(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.util.ASMTResourceBundle.getValue(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.GuiMain.validateSrcInputArgs(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.GuiMain.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.ActionPanel.processActionEvent(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.ActionPanel$4.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6041)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3265)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5806)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2058)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4413)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2116)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4322)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3986)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3916)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2102)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2440)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)    Thanks,
Da Liz

** bump ** still having this issue... and am pulling hairs out (losing more than gaining these days...) trying to figure out why the migration tool starts out fine then craps.
I decided to uninstall everything and create a whole new install of the latest j2EE JDK (since my original install had stuff inside of c:\Program Files\Java - and I wanted to eliminate tricky issues with having a space in the path). So, after uninstall and deleting all Java, I went through the registry on my dev machine and did a search for "c:\Program Files\Java" and replaced them all with "c:\java" - the new location for java stuff to be installed - then reinstalled everything anew.
then I tried migrating an ear that was a web app...
C:\>%asmt_home%\bin\asmigrate -c -S ws50 -T glassfish -t c:\temp\gfout c:\temp\cbc_20080717\source\cbci_app_v2\cbci_app.ear
JAVA_HOME=C:\Java\SDK\jdk\
ASMT_HOME=c:\Java\SDK\asmt
J2EE_HOME=C:\Java\SDK\
Extracting archives :-
Extracting: cbci_app.ear
xxx
Extracting: cbci_app.war
xxxxxx
Clean up...
Selected Directory is not empty. Some Output file(s) may be overwritten. Do you
want to continue? (Y/N):y
Pre-processing input :-
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Migration Status :-
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType.value()Ljavax/xml/bind/annotation/AccessType;
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ClassInfoImpl.getAccessType(ClassInfoImpl.java:244)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ClassInfoImpl.getProperties(ClassInfoImpl.java:195)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RuntimeClassInfoImpl.getProperties(RuntimeClassInfoImpl.java:79)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.getClassInfo(ModelBuilder.java:112)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RuntimeModelBuilder.getClassInfo(RuntimeModelBuilder.java:45)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RuntimeModelBuilder.getClassInfo(RuntimeModelBuilder.java:37)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.getTypeInfo(ModelBuilder.java:141)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RegistryInfoImpl.<init>(RegistryInfoImpl.java:50)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.addRegistry(ModelBuilder.java:183)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.getTypeInfo(ModelBuilder.java:152)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:306)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:179)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:70)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:50)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:118)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:133)
        at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:286)
        at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:372)
        at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:337)
        at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:244)
        at sun.iasmt.util.ASMTJaxbContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.convertors.common.xmlconvertor.AppReader.read(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.control.SJSMTXmlFileHandler.readXMLFile(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.control.ASMTController.startupEngineAndConvert(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.control.ASMTController.startupEngineAndConvert(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.cmd.CommandCallController.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.IASMTMain.runTool(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.IASMTMain.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.IASMTMain.main(Unknown Source)
C:\>    Looks slightly different, but in general, I am still getting the same old stuff as in the previous posting... Maybe the strange syntax in the first line of the exception is the clue "javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType.value()Ljavax/xml/bind/annotation/AccessType;" but I can't find this in my code and am wondering if anyone has ever seen anything like this before? Also, I'm noting that all references in the exception path to any sun.iasmt.* classes are "Unknown Source"... perhaps another clue to something not defined or configured somewhere; but what and where? I just don't know where to look...
BTW - the code I am working on converting is from a Websphere 5.1 runtime environment and I have no access to the server that the files were exported from.
Da Lizard

Pixmantec Migration Tool is unusable

First of all, I am very happy with the LR. In comparison to the RSP, the slow performance is compensated with a much better control of colors. (even if all cameras need to be calibrated for correct (red) colors?!?)
Because I really archive all my pictures as raw data with the appropriate develop settings, it is very important for me to take over the RSP settings. Maybe latest with a next PC-generation, RSP will not run any longer. Therefore, I would like to migrate them into LR. So I appreciated the migration tool. It is clear, that the tool cannot migrate all settings of RSP, but it is still far away from similar settings planned. Probably, Michael Johnson was not involved in development, because the actual tool cannot be used in the expected way.
Some examples:
Cropping:
* correct conversion in some pictures
* in many pictures no conversion
* in some pictures wrong conversion (too low, in the middle of the face instead above).
For the not converted pictures, the problem is probably lying in the LR. I assume, it happens in pictures, where the right cropping rectangle (correct RSP) is outside of the picture rectangle.(RSP brings some more pixel.) This should be tested and corrected. (reduction of the cropping rectangle about the necessary pixel).
The white balance is not converted satisfactorily. For example, a manual white balance of the WhiBal card is converted from RSP 5000/-2 into LR as 4500/-2. The correct and therefore visually corresponding manual white balance in LR would be 5200/+4! It seems that the tint setting is just been taken over, which results in a greenish tint. In all my pictures (Canon 20D) the correct tint value (manual setting with a WhiBal card) of LR is always about 4 to 6 values higher than in the RSP.
The RSP vibrance setting should be multiplied by factor 3 to 5 for a visually equivalent LR setting.
There should be a flag for the Color Engine. Because the Color Engine, that is used by most of the people, delivers more saturated colors, the saturation (and vibrance) settings should be converted with a higher factor.
A negative value for RSP "Highlight contrast" should be migrated as LR Recovery setting.
The LR contrast remains wheter on the default setting or is set to 0. I really cannot understand why the contrast has to be set to 0 (very strange).
The very important RSP setting "Shadow contrast" is not taken into account at all! Consequently, there are many pictures in RSP with a high contrast, which after migration into LR have a lower or no contrast. They look totally different (dull)! It should be possible to map the RSP shadow contrast to the LR settings Darks and Shadows of the tone curve to get similar pictures.
The RSP tone curve and the level settings remains unrecognized.
In my opinion, it should be no problem to migrate a typical tone curve nearest:
The maximum and minimum values of the zones (highlights, lights, dark and shadows) could be analyzed and migrated into the appropriate LR parameter values. With that satisfactorily results could be reached for typical (positive and negative) s-curves.
RSP level settings could be converted as additional exposure and blacks corrections in order to produce similar pictures.
Overall, the migration tool is insufficient and unprofessional. It provides the impression, that it was developed facile only to deliver something as promised.
Finally, I would like to point out that it was not in my mind to only criticize your work. I really hope you can use my ideas to improve the tool.

I think this issue is a dead horse. A promise provided to late to be of any useful help.
I am a RSP user and while I am not a pro and do not have tens of thousands of pics, I do not think this would be of any use to me.
I believe it was a nice offer from Adobe to have this done but this offer was made about one year ago. Surely if one were using LR since then other alternatives would have been used to reprocess files if required. LR has advanced with at least one upgrade and surely another in the making very shortly.
If RSP supports your camera and works for you, continue to enjoy, if you wish to to use LR "smell the new brew of coffee" and move on.
Two years ago ACR imo was no match for RSE/RSP or other raw conversion software for that matter. Since then ACR v 4.1 and LR is a substantial improvement and can now hold their own against other third party raw converters.
Raw conversion software is advancing rapidly and RSP should be left to r.i.p, since there will be no future upgrades/camera support/enhancements and ones efforts would be best used elsewhere.
The LR team would be better employed in resolving the existing bugs and providing support for new camera models. jmho.

Error while installing Migration Tool kit for SAP BPC7.0

Hi all,
We are implementing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Migration Process to BPC 7.0.
We are trying to installin Migration Tool Kit. In this kit we are having two set up files - one for BPCMigrationClient and another for BPCMigrationServer.
When i am trying to install the BPCMigrationServer set up file it diaplays a screen which says - Enter the service type accounts.- it has the following items - 1. System Admin ID, 2. password, 3. Admin ID, 4. Admin Password, 5. User ID, 6. User Password.
1. System Admin ID already has the id ( through which i have logged on to the system). This option is non editable.
2. password: gives option to type in the password.
3, 4, 5, 6 options are disabled and are blank. we are not able to edit them or write anything in them.
After entering the password when clicked on next , it gives us message saying Invalid Admin ID (3). But the problem here is that the 3,4,5 and 6 options are disabled. We cannot write anything in them. We are not able to install the migration tool kit because of this.
Can anyone help us out in solving this issue.
Thanks,
Madhav

CAn you precise also what Migration tool are you using?
Migration from 5.1 to SAP BPC 7.0 NW?
In that case when you are speaking about the installation about what part are you speaking?
I think actually you are speaking about the migration tool from 4.2 to 7.0 Microsoft version .
In that case you can install the mIgration tool just with SAP BPC sys admin users and you have to input the password for that user. Sys admin user for BPC is usually the user used for installation of SAP BPC server.
Any way I suggest to follow the Migration tool training document and there you will find all the information necessary.
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

Hom System Copy- Error running J2ee migration tool kit

Good Day Guys,
Im performing homogenous system copy.I have encountered below error:
INFO 2008-10-20 13:05:33
Output of C:\j2sdk1.4.2_18-x64\bin\java.exe -classpath D:/usr/sap/LE1/SYS/global/sltools/sharedlib/launcher .jar;. com.sap.engine.offline.OfflineToolStart com.sap.sdt.jmt.migrationtool.MigrationToolImport D:/usr/sap/LE1/SYS/global/sltools/jmt;D:/usr/sap/LE1 /SYS/global/sltools/sharedlib import.switch resume downtime mti.properties is written to the logfile C:/Program Files/sapinst_instdir/ERP/LM/COPY/MSS/SYSTEM/CENTRA L/AS/runJmt.log.
WARNING 2008-10-20 13:05:34
Execution of the command "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_18-x64\bin\java.exe -classpath D:/usr/sap/LE1/SYS/global/sltools/sharedlib/launcher .jar;. com.sap.engine.offline.OfflineToolStart com.sap.sdt.jmt.migrationtool.MigrationToolImport D:/usr/sap/LE1/SYS/global/sltools/jmt;D:/usr/sap/LE1 /SYS/global/sltools/sharedlib import.switch resume downtime mti.properties" finished with return code 27. Output:
ERROR 2008-10-20 13:05:34
CJS-20068 Error when running the J2EE Migration Toolkit.<br>SOLUTION: See output of logfile C:\Program Files/sapinst_instdir/ERP/LM/COPY/MSS/SYSTEM/CENTRA L/AS//runJmt.log: ''.
ERROR 2008-10-20 13:05:34
CJS-20068 Error when running the J2EE Migration Toolkit.<br>SOLUTION: See output of logfile C:\Program Files/sapinst_instdir/ERP/LM/COPY/MSS/SYSTEM/CENTRA L/AS//runJmt.log: ''.
ERROR 2008-10-20 13:05:34
FCO-00011 The step RunMigrationController with step key |NW_Doublestack_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_One host_System|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_CI_Instance|ind |ind|ind|ind|11|0|NW_CI_Instance_Configure_Java|in d| ind|ind|ind|4|0|NW_RUN_MIGRATION_CONTROLLER|ind|ind |ind|ind|2|0|RunMigrationController was executed with status ERROR .
INFO 2008-10-20 13:06:29
An error occured and the user decide to stop.\n Current step "|NW_Doublestack_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_On ehost_System|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_CI_Instance|in d|ind|ind|ind|11|0|NW_CI_Instance_Configure_Java|i nd|ind|ind|ind|4|0|NW_RUN_MIGRATION_CONTROLLER|ind |ind|ind|ind|2|0|RunMigrationController".
I have checked the runjmt.log its empty.
I did find a note 966752.but couldnt solve the problem.Another thing do we need to have same version of j2sdk,mine are different on source(ia64) and target(x64).
Please advice.
BasisNerd

CAn you precise also what Migration tool are you using?
Migration from 5.1 to SAP BPC 7.0 NW?
In that case when you are speaking about the installation about what part are you speaking?
I think actually you are speaking about the migration tool from 4.2 to 7.0 Microsoft version .
In that case you can install the mIgration tool just with SAP BPC sys admin users and you have to input the password for that user. Sys admin user for BPC is usually the user used for installation of SAP BPC server.
Any way I suggest to follow the Migration tool training document and there you will find all the information necessary.
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

Backoffice methodlogy and data migration tool

Anybody know about backoffice methodology?This methodology was developed by backoffice associates.I would like to know more about it.
see the link below
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ad903bcc-0901-0010-25bd-a0e5aebcf2b0
If anyone know please help.
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abi baski

So, I loaded my CUCM with 6.1.4 which is absolutely compatible with UCCX 7.0.1 and I still get the same error which is as follows: Data Migration is only supported on CUCM Deployments. I am using the Data Migration Tool for 4.0.5 to 7.0.1 UCCX deployments. All necessary services are started on the CUCM and the UCCX license and CUCM pass validation. I am at a loss as to why I am getting this error. Does anyone have any ideas?

After I used the migration tool to transfer contents of my previous MacBook Pro I cannot log in to my new MacBook Pro. I have tried using old and new passwords but to no effect. I cannot use my Apple ID. How can I re-set my MBook to factory setting pls?

I have been a proud owner of Apple products for many years. However, this problem is very frustrating! Any help will be appreciated. I used the migration tool to transfer the contents of my old MacBook Pro to my new shiny MacBook Pro Retina! After migration finished I tried to access my new MacBook Pro retina. However, when asking me to log in it refuses to accept the passwords from either the new MacBook or the old one! I do not have the option of using my Apple ID either.... Please help! Unfortunately, I am past my 90 day Apple Support!!

Restart holding down the CMD+R keys, launch Disk Utility and erase the HD, quit DU, and restore the OS. On first boot, use the Setup Assistant to do the migration. Details in Pondini's Setup New Mac guide.

Can you merge two user accounts on macbook? my wife has created a user on her new macbook , then inadvertently created a second one when using the migration tool. 1st ac has her office 365 install, yet 2nd has her itunes database, docs and contacts.

Can you merge two user accounts on a macbook? my wife has created a new user on her new macbook air then, inadvertently, created a second one when using the migration tool. 1st a/c has her office 365 install, while 2nd has her itunes database, docs and contacts. What is the best way forward to get everything into the one account? Not sure if the office 365 will allow another installation into the second account, otherwise would just do that and delete the first, if that is possible?

There is no merge but you can move data from one account to another via the Shared folder. Data is copied from Shared. Watch your free space when copying. These are large files. Do one at a time if you are on a small drive. After making copy, delete from other users before you start next copy.
Office365 installs in the main Applications folder and is available for all users on the computer. Activation is tied to the drive not the User.

Corrupted time machine backup and Migration tool

Thanks in advance to anyone that is able to help. Sorry for the long read.
Recently I replaced my hard drive because it was slowing down and had a very large number of bad sectors. After replacing the HD with a new one I tried to use migration assistant to move my information from the old one. As has happend with many bad hard drives it could not detect the old drive. This always happens if I try to migrate from a drive with bad sectors. The healthy ones always work.
So in an attempt to make the migration tool see the files and migrate them I am trying to use the old drive to spoof a Time machine backup.
First I set my old HD as the location of the new mac's TM backup just to get a TM backup file in place. The fist problem I ran into was that time machine backups are write protected at the kernel level and can't be modified. I found a helper module in the TMsafetynet kext that does this write protection and so, I can delete files in the backup like so.
sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMsafetynet.kext/Helpers/bypass rm -Rfv /Volumes/TIMEMACHINEDRIVE/Backups.backupdb/whatever files to delete
And so, I removed and modified the files in the time machine backup slightly and migration assistant as well as time machine reflected the changes perfectly without error.
Next I deleted all that was in the time machine backup, I then moved the entire contents of my old drive into this time machine backup file in such a way as to mimic a normal time machine backup.
The good news is that time machine reads my jimmy rigged backup perfectly (which looks pretty wierd since there is no continuity between past and present), But migration assistant now does not see it.
If anyone is able to help that would be awesome. I replace bad hard drives all the time that won't copy with migration assistant, transferring the files manually isnt easy or clean. It's a pain.
Thanks a million for any advice!

Thanks in advance to anyone that is able to help. Sorry for the long read.
Recently I replaced my hard drive because it was slowing down and had a very large number of bad sectors. After replacing the HD with a new one I tried to use migration assistant to move my information from the old one. As has happend with many bad hard drives it could not detect the old drive. This always happens if I try to migrate from a drive with bad sectors. The healthy ones always work.
So in an attempt to make the migration tool see the files and migrate them I am trying to use the old drive to spoof a Time machine backup.
First I set my old HD as the location of the new mac's TM backup just to get a TM backup file in place. The fist problem I ran into was that time machine backups are write protected at the kernel level and can't be modified. I found a helper module in the TMsafetynet kext that does this write protection and so, I can delete files in the backup like so.
sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMsafetynet.kext/Helpers/bypass rm -Rfv /Volumes/TIMEMACHINEDRIVE/Backups.backupdb/whatever files to delete
And so, I removed and modified the files in the time machine backup slightly and migration assistant as well as time machine reflected the changes perfectly without error.
Next I deleted all that was in the time machine backup, I then moved the entire contents of my old drive into this time machine backup file in such a way as to mimic a normal time machine backup.
The good news is that time machine reads my jimmy rigged backup perfectly (which looks pretty wierd since there is no continuity between past and present), But migration assistant now does not see it.
If anyone is able to help that would be awesome. I replace bad hard drives all the time that won't copy with migration assistant, transferring the files manually isnt easy or clean. It's a pain.
Thanks a million for any advice!

Got an iMac and used migration tool (PC to Mac). When I try iTunes i get The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version.... download iTunes now? but i have it already???

I just got an iMac and used migration tool (PC to Mac). When I try to then open iTunes i get the message
<The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version.... download iTunes now?>
...but i have it already downloaded, when I press download now, it tells me I already have it, but it still won't let me open iTunes???

Unless you've tried to install an older version of iTunes that message likely indicates a corrupt library file. See Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash...
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Migration tool to support migration from WAS 5.x and WLS 8.x to AS 7.x

This is to announce the release of a new migration tool adding support for IBM WebSphere 5 and BEA WebLogic 8 to Sun Java System Application Server 7.x .
Along with the tool, we refreshed the website with more partners and client solutions migration assessment offering. Check this out at http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr/migration/index.html.
and download the Sun Java System Application Server 7 Migration Tool at
http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/products/419259b5.html
Here is the complete list of App/Web products the tool now supports
* IBM Web Sphere 5, 4
* BEA Web Logic Server 8, 7, 6
* Sun ONE Application Servers 6.0 and 6.5
* JBoss 3.x
* Sun ONE Web Server 6.x
* Apache Tomcat 4.x
* Reference Implementations based on J2EE 1.3
Thanks,
-- Vella Raman

Yolu have posted in the PPC area, and if you do, in fact, have a PPC, you can't migrate to Lion, it only works on intel machines. In addidition, you need to be running Snow Leopard (10.6.x) if you have an intel in order to install Lion.

I have a new Imac with OS Lion. When i use the apple migration tool to transfer from my PC to the Mac, it runs for two hours or so exchanging my pictures and address book, but when completed, I cannot locate anything on the Mac! Any suggestions?

I have a new IMAC with lion. When I use the migration tool from my PC to the new Mac, it takes about 2 hours to transfer my photos and address book, etc. However, when completed, I cannot locate any of the transfered material on the Mac! Any suggestions?

You have posted to the older PPC iMac forum. You need to poster to a newer iMac forum.
I suggest posting here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion?tagSet=1382
Complete list:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463
Try double clicking on the harddrive icon on your desktop
You should get something like this.
On the left pane is a list of common places.
All the user data is in the /Users folder.
See the magnifying glass on the upper left of the screen. This is spotlight. Type in a file name.
Robert

Why is migration tool so erratic and basically useless?

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