I have a 2015 13" MBP that was running the latest version of Yosemite. I ran the upgrade to El Capitan. I've been using Macs since 1993, so I've been through a lot of upgrades. It downloaded, installed, and restarted my Mac. For some reason, it did a fresh install, although I don't remember having been offered that option (it was late at night). So I opened Migration Assistant and selected my Time Machine Backup to restore my data. After calculating file sizes for about a minute, it said, "Migration failed unexpectedly." My only option was to quit. I tried three more times, with the same result. One time, however, I got a dialog box telling me that the account names on my two Macs (one being the Time Machine Backup) were the same and had to be different. There was an option to change one of the account names, but before I could do so, Migration Assistant quit.
Any suggestions? I have a Yosemite installer flash stick that I created after I installed Yosemite last year, but it's probably OS 10.9.0. I have my Time Machine Backup drive. I have a late 2012 Mac mini running Yosemite that I use as a media center, to which I migrated everything from my MBP a few months ago. Between the mini, iCloud, Dropbox, and external drives, I have almost everything that was on my MBP. Although it would be a pain, I could reinstall all my software and locate most of my data. At this point, that might be the best approach, unless there's an easy way to get everything from my Time Machine Backup. I haven't touched anything yet on my MBP.
Any suggestions? I have a Yosemite installer flash stick that I created after I installed Yosemite last year, but it's probably OS 10.9.0. I have my Time Machine Backup drive. I have a late 2012 Mac mini running Yosemite that I use as a media center, to which I migrated everything from my MBP a few months ago. Between the mini, iCloud, Dropbox, and external drives, I have almost everything that was on my MBP. Although it would be a pain, I could reinstall all my software and locate most of my data. At this point, that might be the best approach, unless there's an easy way to get everything from my Time Machine Backup. I haven't touched anything yet on my MBP.