Hello migrants / Migraine Assistant users, 🙂
I had similar problems when running Migration Assistant on 2 Macs
(both running Mavericks v10.9.2 the latest at the time of writing this)
trying to transfer all data from one to the other:
- very high predicted WIFI migration time: 76 hours, like Matt Katz
- thunderbolt cable not seen by migration assistant and only seeing WIFI, like Matt Katz
- once also had only a few Kilobytes transfered, like Rob Green4 (Don't know why.)
I solved it doing this:
- switched off the WIFI on the destination Mac (Mac Pro 2014) (to force it not to use WIFI)
- put the source Mac (Mac Book Pro) in target mode to make it function as a disk (press T during its start up)
- started Migration assistant on the destination Mac, up to the point where it starts looking for the source Mac
- ONLY THEN plug in the thubderbolt cable from source Mac to destination Mac, and yes, then the destination Mac sees the source Mac, displays it as a disk and you can press it and press the button that starts the transfer! 🙂
Considering this saved me 76-1.5 = 74.5 hours (for about 500 Gig) of waiting and may do the same for you all,
I wanted to share this with you.
I vaguely remember similar issues with Firewire. Try the same technique I'd say.
Enjoy!
Peter