Q: my migration was stuck for hours while it was in the "remaining less than one minute" phase of the mirgration complete

I was using the migration assist from an imac to a macbook air both running the latest versions of mavericks.

The migration strated and bioth computers were on the even count down. At the point when it stated less than one minute to completing the migration assist it just remained like that for over 12 hours.

i had to reboot one of the machines to be able to reset it. Nothing was migrated when restarted the machines.

Any ideas why this happened and what can be done to make sure it doesnt happen again?

I was migrating my system applications only.