Mavericks Migration Assistant cant migrate from another 10.9

OS X- How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks

Same situation here ... did the Apple Care suggestion work?

Thanks!

No, don't do it that way. Use Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.3 for the task. Much safer and it will preserve permissions which manual copy does not.

I have a same issue here.

I Used migration asst. for my 2011 macbook air 13 inch to 2013 macbook pro retina 13 inch.

Everything is working correctly except MAIL.

If I look at @ account, there are accounts that I used.

However, if I run MAIL, nothing appear & "add accounts" window appear.

So, I added again.......still nothing appear & "add accounts" window appear whenever I run MAIL.

This drives me nuts.

I just format & reinstall maverics...this time will use migration asst. without migrating application.

I installed Mavericks, and it seemed to hang quite a while, indicating "one minute left" for about an hour. I rebooted the computer, and it was as if I had a "clean install" of Mavericks on a new computer. However, all my files are gone, but it did keep all of my programs and applications (minus their passwords, etc. if they required one). I tried to re-install my missing files from a Time Machine Backup, but Mavericks does not seem to work with Time Machine. That is to say once Time Machine Opens, the only button that works is the "cancel" button". I went into finder, and it appears there are in fact backup files on that drive (over 300 MB). I don't really mind re-installing the files manually, as they are mostly .doc files, or .pdf files. Is there any way of doing that? Also lost all of my e-mail stuff, which is very frustrating!

Thank goodness I had over 500MB of photos backed up on other external drives that were not affected, and all my movies and music was migrated previously to an external drive.

I had tried to migrate my Time Machine drive to the Mac, but that did not work, either.

Help me, my hair is falling out over this!!!

2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo 4GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDR Ram OSX 10.9

TWon2013, you describe my problem perfectly - Migration Assistant brings everything across, including my mail accounts, but I can't actually access the mail itself. Adding the account in preferences does nothing. I am not inclined to format a machine I bought just yesterday, and wouldn't know how to clean-install the OS anyway (do disk-drive, no disks...).

Can someone suggest a less ruthless way of fixing the problem?

I tried everything. I gave up.

I did format & reinstall OS X for new macbook pro retina.

Here's what I did.

I saved every mails into the server.

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used migration asst. for documents only.

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used thunderbolt for tansfering files.

What I am saying is this. I did everything manually. migration assist *****!

To transfer data from an Old MBP to a New MPB,Connect both with a Thunderbolt cable (very very fast) 1) Open migration assistant on the new MBP 2) Boot the New (the source) Macbook Pro in target mode by restarting it and holding the T key down 3) Migration assistant on the New MBP will ask which disk you want data transferred from 4) Choose the Old MBP...you can deselect Applications, Documents, and Settings, but the connection is so fast, i transferred almost 200 gigs in 40 minutes.

i have a 2011 MBP, boughta new MBP. Also bought a Thunderbolt connect cable for $40 and booted the old MBP as a target disk on the the 2013 MPB.

I know ( including other people) this simple data transfering.

The question is about MAIL.

I did data transfering with thunderbolt, too.

what about MAIL?????????

It seems like no one knows....

2013-10-28 update: erased drive on new 13" MacBook Pro (late 2013) and reloaded Mavericks; manually moved data by copying from attached USB hard drive from old MacBook Pro (early 2011), including local mail folders in ~/Library/Mail. Reloaded all apps either from store or fresh download. Everything is running smoothly now, and actually this fresh install was much needed. Confirming that Mail is running normally and loads my iCloud and Exchange email, along with local mail folders.

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Sorry, i use Entourage (wildly outdated) but everything transferred perfectly...never have used Mail...

I found the solution here : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5483863

Deleting Container.plist worked for me.

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Container.plist

this worked for me too!

it was a 10.9 -> 10.9 transition and everything migrated ok except for mail. deleting this faile caused mail to rebuild its database and now everything is working great!