Migration Assistant - Is it Frozen?
Transferring between 2 MacBook Pros over Wifi, but it has shown “Transferring Your Information - Starting Up...” for 2 hours now without any time estimate. Is this normal?
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Transferring between 2 MacBook Pros over Wifi, but it has shown “Transferring Your Information - Starting Up...” for 2 hours now without any time estimate. Is this normal?
Hello Napisarn and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
I see you have a question about the amount of time to transfer data between two Macs over Wi-Fi. The amount of time is totally dependent on the speed of the network and the amount of data being transferred. If there is a large amount of data being transferred, two hours-plus is not unheard of. If you're already deep into the transfer process, I'd advise letting it finish.
If the transfer process hasn't progressed much or you wish to consider other, potentially faster methods of accomplishing this, check out the article below:
How to move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support
"Connect the computers to each other
Cheers.
Hello Napisarn and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
I see you have a question about the amount of time to transfer data between two Macs over Wi-Fi. The amount of time is totally dependent on the speed of the network and the amount of data being transferred. If there is a large amount of data being transferred, two hours-plus is not unheard of. If you're already deep into the transfer process, I'd advise letting it finish.
If the transfer process hasn't progressed much or you wish to consider other, potentially faster methods of accomplishing this, check out the article below:
How to move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support
"Connect the computers to each other
Cheers.
Hi Napisarn.
At the 24 hour point, it's a pretty safe assumption that either the transfer was happening but not showing on the screen (i.e., a "cosmetic" issue) or the two Macs are having a hard time connecting wirelessly.
At this point, I would suggest forcing both Macs to shut down by pressing and holding the Power buttons. When you restart the new Mac, if the transfer has not taken place, consider using one of the wired methods listed previously such as target disk mode or using a Time Machine backup, instead.
Cheers.
Found out the old laptop dropped the connection and tried to connect to another network. Unfortunately there is no window that pops up telling us the transfer was interrupted! It just sat there frozen for 2 days! Got it working again. It shouldn’t say “Starting Up” long at all. Thanks.
It’s been more than 24 hours and the screens have not changed and it still says “Starting Up”. Usually I would expect to see some dynamic arrows indicating flow of information. But there is nothing moving on the screen. Still a normal process?
Hi Napisarn.
I'm glad to hear you got it sorted. Have fun with that new Mac!
Cheers.
Migration Assistant - Is it Frozen?