[WSE]

I bought a new MBP, and during Migration Assistant data transfer, the process halted after several hours, with only a few minutes to go, with an error messaging saying the other computer stopped sending data. Other computer actually looked fine, I said to continue and the assistant hung. I forced quit, restarted new MBP and it asked if I wanted to continue the prior migration. I tried, it hung in the same place, so did a forced shut down. I got the new MBP started manually, i.e. without using MIgration Assistant. The user folder associated with the partial migration had "noindex" suffix and reported zero size in Finder... odd size nearly all the data supposedly transferred. I searched for large files, visible or invisible, and did not see any evidence of the Migration Assistant's work.

Using a different computer, I checked the old computer's file structure and repaired using DiskWarrior. I deleted the user folder with the noindex suffix on the new MBP. Now I launched Migration Assistant on the new MBP and it again asked me if I wanted to resume the prior migration. I was surprised it still knew about it, given that I had trashed the noindex folder, but I said "no" and launched a new migration, pointing back to the old computer.

The new migration is in progress now. What is troubling is that in the window showing the size of data to be migrated and the amount of free space available, the free space shown implies that the prior incomplete migration data is still on the new MBP even though it is invisible to the finder. How do I get ride of it? Its huge wasted space. Thanks

[Cold Warrior]

It could be an invisible file or invisible folder some place, maybe even a cache file/folder. You can use a utility like WhatSize, OmniDiskSweeper or similar to see what files and folders are taking up space on a hard drive -- even invisible ones.

[reader50]

There is a free solution.

• Use TinkerTool or Onyx to make all files visible in the Finder. Relaunch Finder so the change takes.
• Open a window to HD root in list mode. Call up the window prefs (command-J), set to "This window only" and "Calculate all sizes".
• Sort by the Size column. Open disclosure triangles as needed to follow high space usage.

This solution can take time - the Finder may take awhile to fill in results for heavily nested folders, especially those in /Library/ and /System/Library/.