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Hi all,
I am transferring files from my 2011 mbp to my new iMac. The connection for migration assitant defaulted to wireless (even though Ethernet was set up), unfortunately. I had forgotten that wireless was the default connection. It's okay, I'm a fairly patient person. It says it has 12 hours remaining. Not too terrible for wireless. Anyway, I have some questions:
If the computers go to sleep, will the files still copy to the iMac? It is too late to change the energy settings as they're in the middle of copying now.
If it does freeze for some freak reason, will my mbp (original computer) still be okay? To add insult to injury my hard drive has the clicking of death going on (just happened) so I don't have the mbp backed up til I get a new external tomorrow.
Should I just cancel it? I'm about to go to bed and I'm afraid they wont copy through the night as the computers will fall asleep from inactivity. If I did have to cancel, I guess I would have to boot from recovery hard drive on new iMac because it is Lion and there are no OS discs.
I'm a little nervous to cancel now as my external hard drive just died and my mbp internal hard drive is all I've got. But I guess copying shouldn't harm the original files anyway. I just don't want to have to babysit the computers by preventing them from falling asleep in order to salvage this migration wirelessly (if that's what I will have to do).
Thank you in advance for the help for reading my ramblings!
I am transferring files from my 2011 mbp to my new iMac. The connection for migration assitant defaulted to wireless (even though Ethernet was set up), unfortunately. I had forgotten that wireless was the default connection. It's okay, I'm a fairly patient person. It says it has 12 hours remaining. Not too terrible for wireless. Anyway, I have some questions:
If the computers go to sleep, will the files still copy to the iMac? It is too late to change the energy settings as they're in the middle of copying now.
If it does freeze for some freak reason, will my mbp (original computer) still be okay? To add insult to injury my hard drive has the clicking of death going on (just happened) so I don't have the mbp backed up til I get a new external tomorrow.
Should I just cancel it? I'm about to go to bed and I'm afraid they wont copy through the night as the computers will fall asleep from inactivity. If I did have to cancel, I guess I would have to boot from recovery hard drive on new iMac because it is Lion and there are no OS discs.
I'm a little nervous to cancel now as my external hard drive just died and my mbp internal hard drive is all I've got. But I guess copying shouldn't harm the original files anyway. I just don't want to have to babysit the computers by preventing them from falling asleep in order to salvage this migration wirelessly (if that's what I will have to do).
Thank you in advance for the help for reading my ramblings!