[rhodest]

I'm running into a problem with the automatic setup assistant transfer. I just bought a new MBP, and I'm trying to transfer data and settings from my old Titanium Powerbook (1GHz / 60 GB drive). I was able to start the auto-transfer, but so far it's been running for ~20 hours and the progress bar is only 2/3 of the way across. It's made no progress at all in the past three hours (stuck on 5hr, 7min left).

Any ideas? Everything I've read suggests that this is a 2-3 hour operation max. I've got the latest firmware on the Powerbook (I believe), and I'm using a harddrive firewire cable that I've used without problems in the recent past. We do have a lot of photos and music on the Powerbook - the 60GB drive is pretty full.

If I just halt the process, will the MBP be usable? I assume worst case I'd have to reinstall OSX from scratch.

[skyman]

Originally Posted by wickywaq

I'm running into a problem with the automatic setup assistant transfer. I just bought a new MBP, and I'm trying to transfer data and settings from my old Titanium Powerbook (1GHz / 60 GB drive). I was able to start the auto-transfer, but so far it's been running for ~20 hours and the progress bar is only 2/3 of the way across. It's made no progress at all in the past three hours (stuck on 5hr, 7min left).

Any ideas? Everything I've read suggests that this is a 2-3 hour operation max. I've got the latest firmware on the Powerbook (I believe), and I'm using a harddrive firewire cable that I've used without problems in the recent past. We do have a lot of photos and music on the Powerbook - the 60GB drive is pretty full.

If I just halt the process, will the MBP be usable? I assume worst case I'd have to reinstall OSX from scratch.

If you stop the process it won't effect your MBP other than it may have transfered over some of your apps, files and settings. But it should still boot just fine.

Are you using a shielded firewire cable?

You will have to start the process over again.

65GB's of data took 2 hours to transfer for me.

Ti --> MBP

Also, you should run a disk consistency test on your Ti's hard drive. You may have a couple bad sectors.