I suggest that you mount the hard drive of your new machine using your '09 machine as the control. Then, try some drag and drop operations; '09 to and from the new one. It sounds like you may have read/right corruptions occurring, which can be very difficult to chase down. If you observe file corruptions in this way, that may indicate that it's time to exercise your warrantee.
Here's some discussion of the mounting process: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Bill Holt On Dec 16, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to use the setup assistant to move my ten tons virtual stuff from > my mid-2009 MBP to a brand new mid-2012 MBP. The mid-2009 MBP is running Mac > OS X 10.8.2, and is up-to-date. > > I first tried to do this over a network, as I had left my firewire-800 cable > elsewhere. The setup would always hang at the same spot. > > Now I have tried to use the setup assistant via FireWire four times, with > miserable results all four times: > > The /Applications folder gets horribly mangled every time. Nearly all of the > applications (whether Apple or not) are marked out with the circle-slash, and > say that they are damaged. Oddly enough, the set of mangled applications has > not been the same from attempt to attempt. > > None of my extra prefpanes get brought over. Perhaps this is normal (though > bad) behavior. > > To top things off, my new computer couldn't boot after every one of these > misguided setups. Each time I restarted after the setup, it got into an > endless loop of wait cursor, no wait cursor, wait cursor. > > In case this is a help: After the setup assistant thinks it is done and > Mountain Lion starts up, the partitions on computer-as-external-drive show up > twice. (There are two partitions on my old MBP, say A and B. When Mountain > Lion starts, it has two A's and two B's on the desktop.) This is odd. > > As an aside, I had installed most of my applications were put in > /Applications/AAApplications, and none of these were brought over. According > to the fantastically helpful Pondini site > (http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html), this is normal, because only the top > level of the folder will be brought over. This makes me wonder what use the > setup assistant is in general. > > I did try to use my time machine backup from an external drive, but gave up > because the time machine backups are done wirelessly. Hence, the setup > assistant cannot find them when the external drive is attached to the new > computer. I have not yet tried hooking the new MBP and the backup drive to my > router so that I can use the Time Machine backup. [ed: it seems insane to > have wireless time machine backups treated so differently] > > If anyone has any troubleshooting advice, I would be greatly obliged. This is > more than a little frustrating. > > Thanks, > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
