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Migration Assistant ERROR PROBLEM BUG
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1157759"><p>Thanks very much for your thorough reporting and investigation into the problem. It's too bad you didn't discover the triangle earlier, I could have told you instantly what the problem was.</p><p></p><p>I suppose it qualifies as a bug, but OS X's migration assistant only recognizes certain classes of user IDs. The ones you mention as not-really-users were all created by third-party applications and aren't therefore "kosher" Mac OS X accounts (because most apps should not be creating fake users!). What *should* happen is that MA should just ignore them and carry on, but instead it assumes corruption.</p><p></p><p>You should send a report to Apple on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1157759"] Thanks very much for your thorough reporting and investigation into the problem. It's too bad you didn't discover the triangle earlier, I could have told you instantly what the problem was. I suppose it qualifies as a bug, but OS X's migration assistant only recognizes certain classes of user IDs. The ones you mention as not-really-users were all created by third-party applications and aren't therefore "kosher" Mac OS X accounts (because most apps should not be creating fake users!). What *should* happen is that MA should just ignore them and carry on, but instead it assumes corruption. You should send a report to Apple on this. [/QUOTE]
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