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Q: Problems With Migration Assistant & Time Capsule

I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro and have been having tons of trouble getting my backups.  Let me tell you the order of events.

 

I plugged in my Time Capsule via Ethernet and turned on the brand new computer.  Using Set-Up Assistant I selected "from another Disk" (or whatever it says), and my Time Capsule was listed.  I then selected it and clicked continue.  It got stuck on the next page saying "looking for other computers" with a spinning wheel.  I tried this repeatedly by turning off the computer, reinstalling the OS, with no luck.  So I decided to just boot it with a new user.

 

After booting the computer as a new user, I opened Migration Assistant hoping to get it to work that way.  I went through all of the neccesary steps, it again listed my Time Capsule, but when I click continue, the only thing that happens is the "continue" button goes from blue to grey.  I let this sit overnight, and...nothing.

 

I rebooted the computer in Recovery and chose to open from a Time Machine Backup.  This was the most promising, I got a list of backups.  The problem was that it only shows complete backups, so the most recent was in February.  So it is missing 3 months of information.  But I decided to boot this one because at least it is something.

 

I then went back to migration assistant, with no luck.

 

I then used Disk Utility to repair the Time Machine drive.  And it told me that the drive appears to be ok.

 

So I went back to migration assistant to try again, and of course no luck.  I read that some people were able to just click the grey continue and it worked, not for me, I tried that as well.

 

The other odd thing is that I am able to open the sparsebundle and get to all of the files.  So I know that there is nothing wrong with the backups.

 

Any thoughts on what is going wrong here?

MacBook Pro, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Jun 2, 2013 3:14 PM

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