Migration Assistant Questions

Hi, I'm the new owner of a 21.5 iMac, switching over from a PC. I got Migration Assistant to connect the two computers and it's going, but it's been going for over ten hours already. The screen says it's been copying my music all this time and has nearly ten hours to go. Does that mean ten more hours just for the music? At this rate to transfer everything I'll need to leave both computers connected and running for days. Is this really how it's supposed to work?

My main question right now is: Can I change my mind at this point and stop the migration process? Will I screw anything up by doing that? All I really need transferred most urgently right now are text documents, and could do those more quickly using a flash drive.

If I interrupt the migration process can I start it over later, or select different (fewer) things to be transferred?

Apologies if this has all been answered somewhere. I did a search but didn't find exactly these questions. Thanks for any help.

Are you doing this over wifi?

I wouldn't stop it if I were you, it would likely cause more problems that it solves

Yes, I am transferring over wifi.

Also, we're assuming you installed the Windows Migration Assistant for Lion from Apple? LINK If you're attempting to use the normal Migration Assistant it likely will not work correctly. And as pointed out above, doing it wireless will take forever. Using an ethernet connection between the two machines will be much faster.

I did download the Migration Assistant for Lion, and it does appear to working, just very slowly.

I assume there's no way to switch to ethernet midway, and that since I've begun doing it over wifi I just have to let it continue that way until it finishes?

Update: the MA finished copying my music, went through pictures and is now copying movies, and tells me the remaining time is a bit over eight hours, so it seems the whole process will be done by sometime this evening, not the days I was anticipating. I can live with that. : )

Transferring really large amounts of data over Wi-Fi, particularly if your connection is 802.11g-based, will take a long time. This is why they recommend a cable.

The process ended up taking close to twenty hours, but it did work and there were no glitches, other than the fact that it placed all my stuff in a second user account (I had done some reading and research before, but somehow missed that this would happen if you didn't do the migration during the initial machine setup).

Since all my documents and files are in the other user account, I'm just using that one as my primary account; it seems the path of least resistance, as opposed to trying to move stuff back into the initial account.

Is it possible to simply delete the other account if I'm not using it, or does it need to remain for some reason because it was the original setup account?

You can delete it As long as your new account is an administrative one.

Thanks!