[Waragainstsleep]

....is a d*ck!


Just did a drive upgrade on a 2009 Mac Mini. I actually pre-installed Lion onto a 500GB disk before installing it using another Mac Mini as host in order to save downtime.

I put the new disk in and hooked the old one up to USB but when I got to the setup assistant/migration assistant to migrate data from the old disk it kept insisting that I "already have a user account by that name" and must rename or not migrate that user. I renamed it and got the same message. Its retarded, there were no users present at all. I elected to create new admin user by going through the setup process and then ran migration assistant again with the same results. I eventually decided not to migrate the users but this could have been seriously annoying if I had needed those users. What gives?

[Spheric Harlot]

I've used it twice now (once from Windows, and once from Time Machine when completely re-installing onto a replacement disk after a hardware failure) with no issues.

When you say you "pre-installed Lion [...] before installing it using another Mac mini as host", what does that mean?

What exactly did you do?

[lpkmckenna]

My migration from my old Snow Leopard MacBook to my new Lion MBP was pretty flawless. Well, other than the fact that Safari suddenly remembered Bookmarks that I deleted years ago, and I had to spend a bunch of time deleting them again.

But my previous migration from older PowerBook to MacBook had the exact problem you mentioned: a complaint about being unable to migrate a user by that name. I had to rename, but it did work, but it still threw me for a loop and left me annoyed.

[Waragainstsleep]

I connected a brand new 500GB drive to a 2007 Mac Mini via USB, booted from my USB Lion installer and installed Lion onto the new 500GB drive. When it booted into Lion I powered off before setting it up.

I then installed the drive into the mini, hooked the old boot drive up via USB and tried to use the migration assistant btu it kept giving me that weird error.