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Migration Assistant - can't find the files
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1601121"><p>I don't know if this will help, but the way MA works is that if you run it BEFORE you create an account on the Mac, it will put the files into the user that you first create as a part of that process. However, if you run it AFTER creating an account, like you did, then the files will be put in a new account with the best name MA can find. In your case, that was the name of the old laptop. What is curious is that when you logged into that new account you didn't see the files at all. That should not happen. You didn't say, but did you reboot between the migration and the logging into the new account? If not, I'd try that sequence to see if you can then see the files in that new account. I admit that's a long shot, but hey, at this point it's better than nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1601121"] I don't know if this will help, but the way MA works is that if you run it BEFORE you create an account on the Mac, it will put the files into the user that you first create as a part of that process. However, if you run it AFTER creating an account, like you did, then the files will be put in a new account with the best name MA can find. In your case, that was the name of the old laptop. What is curious is that when you logged into that new account you didn't see the files at all. That should not happen. You didn't say, but did you reboot between the migration and the logging into the new account? If not, I'd try that sequence to see if you can then see the files in that new account. I admit that's a long shot, but hey, at this point it's better than nothing. [/QUOTE]
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