Question: I have an iMac (late 2009) with El Capitan migrating to a 2017 iMac with Sierra.

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Question: I have an iMac (late 2009) with El Capitan migrating to a 2017 iMac with Sierra.

I have an iMac (late 2009) with El Capitan Migrating to a 2017 iMac with Sierra. 500GB to 1TB. I am using a Cat6 Ethernet cable directly connected to each. I started at about 2200 (8 pm) last night. Initial time left and transfer speed was listed at 10 hours at 14MB/sec. rapidly went down to 9 hours, 50 minutes and 22Mb/sec. I watched the time remains about the same and speed down up to 18MB/s, for about half an hour. I then went to sleep. I woke up 9 hours later & both iMacs are listing “38 minutes left” at 10 MB/sec” and have been for 2 hours, hung up at that screen.

Should I force quit both iMacs and start over, oe do something else?

thanks,

Chuck

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on May 15, 2020 7:18 AM

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rkaufmann87

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May 15, 2020 7:55 AM in response to C. Charles Caruso In response to C. Charles Caruso

Chuck,

The fastest and most reliable method to migrate is to connect the old Mac Time Machine External Hard Disk to the new Mac with a USB cable and then launch Migration Assistant. The migration should take less than 2 hours and be complete. I would recommend starting over and using that method. Using Ethernet, Wi-Fi or any other method is simply not as reliable nor fast.

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BDAqua

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May 15, 2020 8:34 AM in response to C. Charles Caruso In response to C. Charles Caruso

I'd give it time, progress appears to freeze sometimes.

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