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How do I know if migration assistant is stuck?

I am migrating data from a MacBook Pro 15” to a new MacBook Pro 16”. I chose to migrate the data and settings but not applications. The time remaining has not changed since the start of this process, it reported 4 hours 37 minutes when I started it reports 4:37 mins now. It’s been about 1 hour since I started, the transfer rate has slowly crept up from 30MB/s to 40MB/s since the start but appears to have topped out at 40MB/s. Is it even working? Is possible to somehow determine if it’s working?

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Jan 12, 2020 2:50 PM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2020 3:41 PM

I'd just let the Wi-Fi transfer go and keep your fingers crossed. If that doesn't work make a Time Machine backup and connect it directly to your Mac. If there is a partial transfer the next time you run Migration it will not duplicate any files that have already been copied.

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Jan 12, 2020 3:41 PM in response to djbrown

I'd just let the Wi-Fi transfer go and keep your fingers crossed. If that doesn't work make a Time Machine backup and connect it directly to your Mac. If there is a partial transfer the next time you run Migration it will not duplicate any files that have already been copied.

Jan 12, 2020 3:34 PM in response to djbrown

Macjack, in the last 10 mins or so the time remaining updated to 1 hour 46 mins at 42 MB/s. So it appears to be progressing but not updating time remaining very often. I agree it appears to be using WiFi, but I don’t understand why it would use WiFi if the computers are connected with the Thunderbolt-3 cable. I think that maybe any Mac-to-Mac migration is WiFi only, and external HD-to-Mac or PC-to-Mac migrations are done via Thunderbolt-3 or Ethernet. Must have been too difficult to allow the Mac-to-Mac migrations to use the Thunderbolt ports.

How do I know if migration assistant is stuck?

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