cancel Migration Assistant before completion?

Migration assistant appears to be stalled. If I click Cancel, what happens? To material already transferred? Is new machine returned to clear state? Or left with partial transfer of material? Restart Migration later, does transfer restart from beginning of old machine or at point where cancelled?

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Posted on Dec 20, 2022 8:57 AM

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rkaufmann87

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Dec 20, 2022 10:22 AM in response to mikethiedeman

Shut down the computer. If you are not following the directions in Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant then you are doing it wrong. If you were using Wi-Fi that fails about 100% of the time.

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