Ethernet cannot be usew iwth Migration Assistant
I have a 12 year old Mac Pro (MP) running Mojave, and a new Mac Studio (MS). I need to transfer my files. As you can imagine, there are a lot of them! But when I try this, the Mac Pro is always on WiFi, even though I have it on Ethernet on the same network as the MS. I got an estimate of 32 hours to transfer my files. I followed the advice in this link to disable my WiFi.
How to disable wifi during Migration Assi… - Apple Community
Migration Assistant on MS sees MP, but cannot connect. I tried this 3 times! Using WiFi, it estimated 11 hours, but the next morning, there were still 7 to go, and it showed just 1/3 transferred.
So I tried using my removable Time Machine backup from MP. This sat there preparing for 2 hours, so I quit.
I am trying again Not transferring any user directories. There are still over 750,000 files to transfer!
There are multiple issues with this process, and my experience with it so far is awful.
- With a large number of documents, The migration assistant should allow you to put a user's directory somewhere besides the small boot disk. I have a 16TB HDD in a Thunderbay enclosure.
- The Mojave (not updated by Apple in over a year) Migration Assistant should have a way to set the networking. The one on the MS does.
- The instructions on migrating from the MS are non existent. It should have told me to start it on the MP.
Mac Pro, macOS 10.14