HT204350: Move your content to a new Mac
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Nov 11, 2013 7:38 PM in response to Tyler0512by Beef Dirky,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.
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Nov 11, 2013 7:38 PM in response to Tyler0512by Drew Reece,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 ->
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Nov 11, 2013 7:43 PM in response to Drew Reeceby Tyler0512,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.
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Nov 11, 2013 7:45 PM in response to Tyler0512by 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.
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Nov 11, 2013 8:02 PM in response to Tyler0512by Drew Reece,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