Just bought a used Macbook Air (2012) to replace an older Macbook Air and wanted to use Migration Assistant to copy everything over. I haven't used that utility in a long time, I usually do a clean install (including all apps) and manually copy files because I've had better results and I like starting fresh (I've seen too many migrations hobbled by bad juju present on the older machine). But it's my wife's Mac and there's not much on it so I figured I would try it. I did a clean install of El Capitan on the newer Air and fired up Migration Assistant on both machines (the older one is on Mavericks).
I wasn't expecting the new interface, the logging out of the user or the fact that it can all occur over wifi. It took a few tries to get both Macs in sync and get the code to display, but finally I got the migration sequence started and went to bed while the 60GB started to slowly transfer. When I woke up this morning the Migration had failed for unknown reasons. A few things like the System Prefs seemed to have copied, but no applications or photos, music, etc.
Should I try it again, or go old school and just copy things over? The new MA system seems flaky to me, and unless I did something wrong (did they go to sleep during the transfer?) I would expect another failure. I could also try making a Time Machine backup and then Migrating from that. Not worried about Applications (there's only a few) but files and email settings would be great since those are such a pain to set up each time.
Sorry this is so long, TIA
I wasn't expecting the new interface, the logging out of the user or the fact that it can all occur over wifi. It took a few tries to get both Macs in sync and get the code to display, but finally I got the migration sequence started and went to bed while the 60GB started to slowly transfer. When I woke up this morning the Migration had failed for unknown reasons. A few things like the System Prefs seemed to have copied, but no applications or photos, music, etc.
Should I try it again, or go old school and just copy things over? The new MA system seems flaky to me, and unless I did something wrong (did they go to sleep during the transfer?) I would expect another failure. I could also try making a Time Machine backup and then Migrating from that. Not worried about Applications (there's only a few) but files and email settings would be great since those are such a pain to set up each time.
Sorry this is so long, TIA