Should I cancel a stalled migration?
Migrating from old to new iMacs, same model, same OS generation. Stalled for hours at 4 hs and 42 min left. Should I cancel it? I am afraid to end up with a big mess.
iMac 27″, macOS 11.6
You likely do not have any other choice, so once you restart, on both...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.