It said it will take 14 hours. That was at 2:00 this afternoon. I'm
waiting...still waiting...
I'm astonished. Migration Assistant is a solid product and quite fast. I
typically migrate a heavily loaded Mac in 10 to 15 minutes, but that is
using FireWire. Ethernet is going to be slow and 14
I backed up the boot drive to an external FireWire drive and plugged it
into the iMac. Migration assistant only sees two accounts that I deleted
several months ago, and not the one user account that's current. I
assume the deleted accounts are in a preference somewhere, but where?
Check the
Where is the data for the user accounts stored? In the main Library or
System/Library--and which folder/file? Can it be edited in Terminal?
Migration Assistant displays the list of user accounts with a check box
for each account. You only check the accounts you want transferred.
Where is the data for the user accounts stored? In the main Library or
System/Library--and which folder/file? Can it be edited in Terminal?
Migration Assistant displays the list of user accounts with a check box
for each account. You only check the accounts you want transferred.
The fun
I'm trying to transfer data from a G4 to an Intel iMac. The G4 has 3
internal drives. Migration Assistant only sees the first drive on the
first bus. The boot drive is the 3rd drive on the second internal bus.
The first drive has OS 9 on it, and isn't big enough to use for backing
up the boot
