I tried migrating data last night and it’s not completed and has been saying one hour remaining for at least 5 hours now. What should I do?

Migration assistant has been stuck at one hour remaining for at least five hours? Should I cancel and start again?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 25, 2021 11:13 AM

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Dec 25, 2021 3:36 PM in response to RLW222

Please hold down the power button to about the process. Then, please follow the steps in Sep Assistant and Migration Assistant, if you are cabling the two computers together or using Wi-Fi that will almost always fail. If you do not have a Time Machine backup of the old computer, please create one. When you do follow the steps in Back up your Mac with Time Machine and use a high quality External Hard Disk such as a OWC Mercury Elite Pro.

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I tried migrating data last night and it’s not completed and has been saying one hour remaining for at least 5 hours now. What should I do?

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