Migration Manager
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Well, as its twenty four hours later I thought I'd bump this orphan thread for anyone who might be thinking about using Apple's Migration Assistant when switching to a new Mac.
In my experience so far, don't bother.
I'm on my fifth attempt now and have now deselected everything, just to get my email account settings and stuff like that. I have deselected transfering all files, documents, itunes library iphoto library, and the damn thing still wont copy a tiny bit of data across.
It starts off at 19 hours transfer time - to copy about 3gb via firewire, after a few hours that drops down down to three or four hours transfer time, then an hour later it rockets back up to a default 19 hours 35minutes and just stays there permanently doing nothing.
The point of it is that its supposed to set all your accesses and accounts up via the data on your old machine and also transfer any apps that you might have installed on the old machine so that you don't have to download and install them again.
Others might have had some luck with it but not me. After spending a long day yesterday trying to get success I am now going to have to spend today doing it all manually anyway.
Just thought I'd say, thats all.