Migration Manager
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- Horp
Anybody out there ever used Apple's Migration Manager to port apps, settings and doodads from an old machine to a new one?
Reason for asking... I set it running about three hours ago, it chewed through some data for a bit but then hit 19hrs 15minutes and has stayed there ever since. Its been at 19 hours 15 minutes for about an hour and a half now.
I'm wondering if its still actually doing anything or if it has frozen. Did anyone experience super slow transfer with this?
- Horp0
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.
- MrOneHundred0
I had no such probs. If anything, it was quicker than I expected and copied too much. I had no feeling of being on a new machine at all.
- airey0
what machine are you copying from and to?
some machines–especially some model imacs– don't work with it.
- Horp0
Its a first gen G5 and I put Leopard on it yesterday so it should be fine. The big problem, I have discovered, is that even when I deselect 'copy documents' and 'copy libraries' it is still trying to copy them. I have about 400gb in iphoto that I just don't want to copy across but no matter what I do with it, it tries to copy it across. I have put my iphoto library into a DISABLED folder and moved it outside of my user folder but still it is treating it as my iphoto library and trying to copy it, despite the fact that I have specifically asked it not to.
I'm losing the will to live now.
- I don't enough storage anywhere to back it up and delete it though.Horp
- Horp0
Just restarted the Migration Manager and I think I've solved it.
I have just created a new user on my old machine and restricted access to it. Then I have put all unwanted data in a folder marked disabled and put it into the new user's folder.
Now Migration Manager can't find it and its telling me it will be 35 minutes.
Sorry if this is of no interest but one day someone might search QBN for Migration Manager and be glad I put this tip down.