Migration assistant - doesn't see Time Machine drive

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Migration assistant - doesn't see Time Machine drive

I'm using a netatalk based Time machine drive which works perfectly from my old 2006 MBP.

I'm trying to use Migration Assistant to restore the data to my new 2010 MBP. Time machine on both macs sees the netatalk drive, however, Migration Assistant does not - there is just an empty window with a spinning progress wheel.

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 1.83GHz, Mac OS X (10.6), 2GB RAM

Posted on Oct 12, 2010 5:43 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 12, 2010 1:14 PM in response to Matthew Connolly3

This seemed to be a problem with mounting the Time Machine sparsebundle from the old MBP.

I solved it by:
1. Launching Disk Utility,
2. Drag sparsebundle into the drive list on the left (takes ages, ignore spinning wheel)
3. select the sparsebundle
4. Click Repair

took a few hours, but now I can mount the image and once mounted manually, Migration Assistant sees it.

Although it makes sense, it's not obvious that you need to mount the disk image manually for Migration Assistant to see it when Time machine sees it as a destination without doing that step.

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