Q: Is there anyway to get ANY feedback on the progress of the Migration Assistant (besides the occasional modifying of the "Estimated Time To Completion")?
Hi -
I'm trying to use the Migration Assistant between a MacBook Pro OS X 10.9 to a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display OS X 10.9 and it appears to be failing/hanging.
The source (old system) has 3/4 Tb drive that is mostly full and over 1,000,000 files on it, including 4 Virtual Machine files that are over 60 Gb each.
When running the Migration Assistant, with a dedicated eithernet cable between them, things seem to be moving fine till approximatly 45%-50% through the process, with the estimated time to completion changing (moving longer and shorter as the process is trying to guess the amount and number of files remaining and their relative average size). But then, at a some point in what it thinks is about the middle of the transfer, the estimated time to completion stop changing, and that's where the process seems to hang forever.
Since I don't have any "disk activity lights", and there is no indication of what is happening (or what is trying to be happening), after "letting the system continue" for 2-3 times the displayed "time remaining", I've been abandoning the process with a "hard power down" (since there is no "abort" on either Migration Assistant UI) and it appears that NO files have actually been transfered (at least as far as I can see).
I have tried selecting less than everything to be migrated, ending up with the same behavior, just a different "time remaining estimate value" being the final display.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mac to Mac migration failing
Posted on Nov 16, 2013 6:42 AM