Migration problem

[thrilla21]

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So I finally got my new MacBook Pro today and I started the migration process immediately and two hours later is at 11 hours and 34 minutes left. Now it has been jumping back and forth some and I think it's hopefully speeding up. Anyone else have this occur or something similar?

 

[McGiord]

That is data dependent, how many Gb are you migrating?

 

[thrilla21]

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I'm not totally sure. It's probably 50-100 word documents and almost 2,000 media files (music, iPhone stuff).

 

[thrilla21]

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Now it's at a 13 hours and 3 minutes

 

[thrilla21]

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I stopped it. It's 42.4 GB. What should I do?

 

[deadwulfe]

You shouldn't have cancelled it... What's the average actual USB 2.0 transfer speed? About 1MB/s? Max is 1.5MB/s.

Roughly 42,400MB / 1MB/s / 60 seconds per minute / 60 minutes per hour = roughly 11.8 hours at the worst

42,400 / 1.5MB/s / 60 / 60 = 7.9 Hours at the best

 

[thrilla21]

You shouldn't have cancelled it... What's the average actual USB 2.0 transfer speed? About 1MB/s? Max is 1.5MB/s.

Roughly 42,400MB / 1MB/s / 60 seconds per minute / 60 minutes per hour = roughly 11.8 hours at the worst

42,400 / 1.5MB/s / 60 / 60 = 7.9 Hours at the best

Damn. I didn't know. I mostly just wanted my music on there, which I might have figured out an alternate route via Home Sharing. We'll see if that works. And the rest (documents) I'll just do via flash or external hard drive. Right?

 

[AppleTech22]

That is not always a perfect estimate, sometimes downloads can be much shorter than the estimated time for me, also just let that baby run through the night. Holding it up isn't helping anything

 

[NicoleRichie]

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My initial migration was nearly 20 hours. Start it and walk away for a day. I know others have had to wait extensive amounts of time for larger transfers.