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Q: Migration assistant is frustrating

So I have used Time machine to try and migrate data over with 3 seperate hard drives, all 3 of which are not seen with my new 2013 MBPr from my mid-2012 MBA.

 

I try to use the firewire cable and migration assistant...it goes great 1/2 way and then switches to wireless and asks me to plug in a firewire cable for faster transfers.

 

I only have 1 firewire / network cable adapter therefore can't do that.  This is super frustrating and I can't seem to find answers anywhere.  I'm pretty close to shipping the MBPr back as it is such a small upgrade...Ideas?

 

Both machines are Mavericks, fully updated.  2 drives were Western Digital, 1 was Seagate. 

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 6:49 PM

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  • by Beef Dirky,

    Beef Dirky Beef Dirky Nov 11, 2013 7:38 PM in response to Tyler0512
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    Nov 11, 2013 7:38 PM in response to Tyler0512

    Migration assistant is a little bit different in Mavericks than I remember is previous OS versions.

    Try the following:

     

    Try turning Wifi off before starting migration. That way it's not able to switch over to wifi.

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Nov 11, 2013 7:38 PM in response to Tyler0512
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    Nov 11, 2013 7:38 PM in response to Tyler0512

    You have 3 drives 2 Macs & one Firewire cable.

     

    All three drives fail migrating at some point. The common parts are Mavericks & the single Firewire cable.

    I'd suggest you find another cable to test, if that also fails you can assume it is 10.9 (or something else installed).

     

    How are you running Migration Assistant? Is it after a clean install & you have simply booted to 10.9 or are you trying to do it all from the installer ?

     

    How did you install 10.9? Did you erase the HD & install or upgrade over an older system?

     

     

    P.S. check the "More Like This" sidebar on the right ->

  • by Tyler0512,

    Tyler0512 Tyler0512 Nov 11, 2013 7:43 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Nov 11, 2013 7:43 PM in response to Drew Reece

    Drew - Misunderstanding....the 3 drives are all USB, and all 3 different USB cables.

     

    I have also tried to disable the wifi ...the MBA (old) will not se ethe new...but the new will see the old so it doesn't start.

     

    I upgraded to 10.9.

     

    I originally tried to do it when setting up the Mac w/time machine - although it never saw the USB drives.  I tried to boot to recovery mode on the new mac and restore, but it doesn't have OS files? 

     

    Now i'm trying it (and have before) just running migration assistant from Mavericks on both computers. 

  • by Tyler0512,

    Tyler0512 Tyler0512 Nov 11, 2013 7:45 PM in response to Tyler0512
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    Nov 11, 2013 7:45 PM in response to Tyler0512

    I also have checked "more like this" on several occasions.  I know how to run Migration assistant.  I know how you're supposed to do the time machine transfers...it's just not working like Apple was getting known for. 

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Nov 11, 2013 8:02 PM in response to Tyler0512
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    Nov 11, 2013 8:02 PM in response to Tyler0512

    Sorry, I hoped someone would have seen the similar issue in the other thread.

     

    Are the disks showing any data in the Finder at all?

     

    There is a massive thread on potential data loss with external disks & Mavericks.

     

    It seems to primarily affect RAID drives & may be related to certain WD tools, but I don't think there is any definitive answer yet (the cause seems unconfirmed too).

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475611?start=0&tstart=0