Moving from i7 Win 10 machine to an i7 iMac (just bought). Before I invest more time in Migration Assistant...does it actually work, or is it one of those things that insiders kind of roll their eyes about and whisper that it doesn't really work...?
Here's my hurdle:
On my i7, I have iTunes and thousands and thousands of files, about half of which are from iTunes and the rest courses, lectures, CD rips, etc. They're scattered all over (Dsome course\file1.mp4, Esome other course\lecture01.mp3, Csome\weird\path\a fave CD\somesong.mp3, etc.) In other words, this is not just simple "everything's in my music folder". A decade+ of cruft
But hey, it's all just a big XML file so I'm sure OSX can figure it out when migrating.
OK, you can all stop laughing. Here is my experience, and I'm really just wanting to transfer only iTunes which should be simple:
First off, transferring iTunes from Win to OSX is unsupported and not an option. Bummer.
There is no checkbox for "iTunes" in MA. You can check your Music folder, but of course most of my stuff isn't there. I can track down (through hundreds) of folders and click each one, hoping I get them all, and of course it only shows top-level directories so if you want a 10MB mp3 a few subdirs down, you have to take the whole 300GB top directory that has non-media files...etc.
I'm extremely skeptical all the paths will show up all magically remapped on OSX (since there is no E: drive, etc.) but...
Second, I'll never know because MA died. ""Sorry...An error occurred while transferring your information...some Documents for <my name> could not be transferred". OK, which ones? Can I look at the migration report and...sorry, I'm making people laugh. No further info of course.
Third, it associated all the files it copied over entirely with my Windows user name which is a different name than the one on OSX it does not give you the option to import the files to a my account, just created another one so now that appears on my login.
And fourth, he doesn't even have the files because a du -sh of /private shows 900GB but looking in the new user, his entire account is 57MB. I started to login as the user but it wanted my Apple ID and I refused to further confuse things.
Just wondering if I should stop wasting my time with MA.
I'm thinking the alternative is:
Or is there another way?
Here's my hurdle:
On my i7, I have iTunes and thousands and thousands of files, about half of which are from iTunes and the rest courses, lectures, CD rips, etc. They're scattered all over (Dsome course\file1.mp4, Esome other course\lecture01.mp3, Csome\weird\path\a fave CD\somesong.mp3, etc.) In other words, this is not just simple "everything's in my music folder". A decade+ of cruft
But hey, it's all just a big XML file so I'm sure OSX can figure it out when migrating.
OK, you can all stop laughing. Here is my experience, and I'm really just wanting to transfer only iTunes which should be simple:
First off, transferring iTunes from Win to OSX is unsupported and not an option. Bummer.
There is no checkbox for "iTunes" in MA. You can check your Music folder, but of course most of my stuff isn't there. I can track down (through hundreds) of folders and click each one, hoping I get them all, and of course it only shows top-level directories so if you want a 10MB mp3 a few subdirs down, you have to take the whole 300GB top directory that has non-media files...etc.
I'm extremely skeptical all the paths will show up all magically remapped on OSX (since there is no E: drive, etc.) but...
Second, I'll never know because MA died. ""Sorry...An error occurred while transferring your information...some Documents for <my name> could not be transferred". OK, which ones? Can I look at the migration report and...sorry, I'm making people laugh. No further info of course.
Third, it associated all the files it copied over entirely with my Windows user name which is a different name than the one on OSX it does not give you the option to import the files to a my account, just created another one so now that appears on my login.
And fourth, he doesn't even have the files because a du -sh of /private shows 900GB but looking in the new user, his entire account is 57MB. I started to login as the user but it wanted my Apple ID and I refused to further confuse things.
Just wondering if I should stop wasting my time with MA.
I'm thinking the alternative is:
- Nuke the iMac back to factory since I don't know what it's changed. Yeah! In progress now...and then will enjoy 24 hours of Dropbox resync.
- Start up iTunes on the iMac
- Manually bring over my iTunes Library.xml
- redownload all the stuff from the store from the cloud
- a few weeks later when that's done, then go playlist by playlist (there are...500 or so? ) to see what files are missing and manually scp those over one by one and let iTunes place them somewhere
Or is there another way?