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ieva208 Author

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Migration Assistant deleted all files

Hello,

I bought new Mac book Air and during the first attempt to transfer files from old Mac to new one, a new User was created and files were transfered succsessfully. I had one User in old mac and new User in new Mac.

During the second attempt to transfer files only from Desktop (about 70 GB of information - pictures and files), migration stucked in the midle, so I ended it (turned off). After that, when I opened my old Mac, all the Desktop and old user was gone, everything is deleted.

Maybe you can tell me whats happened? Did everything is deleted?

MacBook, macOS 11.6

Posted on Mar 11, 2023 9:52 PM

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a brody

Level 10

84,049 points

Posted on Mar 12, 2023 8:10 AM

Your source shouldn't be deleted. Unless it was damaged.

Do you have a backup somewhere?

If not, you'll want to get to a place that does Mac data recovery with both machines.

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