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freeman727

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I just received my 2015 iMac and trying to use Migration to transfer data from a 2009 Mac Pro on 10.11 using a time machine backup. I was succesful but when I sign in on the iMac, I get an error "Logging in failed because an error occurred."

Does anyone have a clue? Is it because I have FileVault turned on? I would hate to manually move things over.
 
Can you explain what order you did things? For example did you do the import as part of the system setup, or did you make a new account then do the import after (that can cause problems). At what stage did you turn on FileVault?

Just walk me through the order step by step if you can.
 
Weaselboy said:
Can you explain what order you did things? For example did you do the import as part of the system setup, or did you make a new account then do the import after (that can cause problems). At what stage did you turn on FileVault?

Just walk me through the order step by step if you can.
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I have FileVault on for the MacPro. So it is copied over to the Time Machine. Can I go back and turn off FileVault on the Mac Pro and then make a new Time Machine backup?

Also Migration won't work with my Mac Pro connected to the iMac via ethernet. The Mac Pro is not recognized by the iMac.

This problem is very annoying.
 
freeman727 said:
I have FileVault on for the MacPro. So it is copied over to the Time Machine. Can I go back and turn off FileVault on the Mac Pro and then make a new Time Machine backup?
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No that is not the problem. If you have FV on for the Pro it would still make a normal Time machine backup that could be used as the migration source on the new iMac. I'm trying to understand the sequence you did things in the new Mac though so I can help. Can you explain step by step what you did after turning on the new iMac?
 
Weaselboy said:
No that is not the problem. If you have FV on for the Pro it would still make a normal Time machine backup that could be used as the migration source on the new iMac. I'm trying to understand the sequence you did things in the new Mac though so I can help. Can you explain step by step what you did after turning on the new iMac?
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I started the iMac and ran setup as a new user. Afterward I tried to use the Migration tool. It transferred the files from the Mac Pro fine. I used a time machine backup onto a USB harddrive. It even has the old user login on the iMac. Problem happens when I try to log in.
 
freeman727 said:
I started the iMac and ran setup as a new user. Afterward I tried to use the Migration tool. It transferred the files from the Mac Pro fine. I used a time machine backup onto a USB harddrive. It even has the old user login on the iMac. Problem happens when I try to log in.
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Okay.... so you ran setup and made a new account on the iMac and afterwards ran Migration Assistant?

That may be the cause of your problems. Give this a read.

What happens is the first account you setup on a a new Mac is user ID 501. If from within that account you use Migration Assistant to import another account from an older mac and that account also was user ID 501, you have this conflict.

The easiest fix it to command-r boot to recovery and erase the disk the reinstall the OS. Then when setup assistant runs at startup follow the prompts to import from a Time Machine disk without making an account.
 
Weaselboy said:
Okay.... so you ran setup and made a new account on the iMac and afterwards ran Migration Assistant?

That may be the cause of your problems. Give this a read.

What happens is the first account you setup on a a new Mac is user ID 501. If from within that account you use Migration Assistant to import another account from an older mac and that account also was user ID 501, you have this conflict.

The easiest fix it to command-r boot to recovery and erase the disk the reinstall the OS. Then when setup assistant runs at startup follow the prompts to import from a Time Machine disk without making an account.
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Thanks I'll give that a try when I go home.
 
freeman727 said:
Just tried your method and no dice.
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Tell me a little more about what you did. Have I got the sequence correct.

1. 2009 Mac Pro on El Capitan logs in and works fine?
2. You made a TM backup from the Pro.
3. Command-r erased iMac and reinstalled OS X?
4 Then when system setup launched you told it to import from the TM disk? Did that appear to complete okay?

So now where do we sit?
 
Weaselboy said:
Tell me a little more about what you did. Have I got the sequence correct.

1. 2009 Mac Pro on El Capitan logs in and works fine?
2. You made a TM backup from the Pro.
3. Command-r erased iMac and reinstalled OS X?
4 Then when system setup launched you told it to import from the TM disk? Did that appear to complete okay?

So now where do we sit?
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That was the sequence. Everything seemed to transfer fine but when I went to disk utility it seems to have only copied over 100gb of the 1.2tb
 
freeman727 said:
It migrated the apps and goes to the login screen
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When you begin the migration there is a screen that comes up asking what you want to move over.... are you checking everything on that screen?

It looks kinda like this.

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