Migration Assistant Woes Using Migration from 10.8.5 Machines to New Machines running 10.9

[MChivers]

More of an FYI and a call out to the group to see if anyone else is seeing the same issues. We have been updating some of our users to newer machines that are shipping direct from Apple with 10.9. The Users current OS is 10.8.5 fully up to date and under full disk encryption. The 10.9 machine has been test from a deploy studio image as well as fresh out of box. The issue is when you start Migration Assistant it never finds the 10.85 drive, or if it does,It states the migration is only 157kb worth of data to be moved . The workaround that we've found so far, albeit not the best, is to turn off file vault on the 10.8.5 machine. Once that is completed it shows up correctly and can be migrated to the 10.9 machine.

If anyone else is seeing this and has found a different way to combat this please let me know. Or if you are seeing the same thing please feel free to comment as I'm raising a ticket with Apple

[justin]

yes! I'm experiencing the same issue. the work around for me, has been to open migration assistant on the old computer, select "transfer TO another mac" and then on the new machine, open migration assistant and select "transfer FROM old mac/drive/boot volume" after you confirm the code, the data should show up. I attempted to decrypt the drive first, but gave up when i saw it wanted 3 days to do it. :) driving me crazy. used to be so easy.