Finding Files AFTER Migration Assistant Finishes

[RevDaleD]

I've had an iPhone for about 2 years now, and I bought my granddaughter a Macbook Pro when she started college. But I started working with mainframe computers in early 1980's and until the past weekend, I've been a PC guy since the late 1980's.
I just bought my first Mac (iMac 27 i7 3.4 ghz 8 gb RAM 2gb Video) .
I completed the "setup" process and downloaded and installed several gb of my Bible application.
Today, I brought in an extra Ethernet cable and connected my new iMac to my PC (i7 3.2 ghz 12 gb RAM, running 64 bit Windows 7)
Installed Migration Assistant on my PC, and let the Migration Assistant on my iMac talk to my PC. It looked well. The computers found each other, the codes matched, it looked great.
I picked all the files I wanted to transfer, and clicked Continue. The App said it would take a little over an hour and said it was moving pictures, and videos, and documents, and finally said it was finished.
I started looking around on my iMac for the data that I was assured would be seemlessly placed in the proper location. But, I can't find them anywhere. I've searched using Finder. I've gone to the hard drive and searched there.
After 1 1/2 hours of transfer time, I am unable to find any files from my PC on my iMac.
Friends, I really don't want to copy all my stuff to a DVD drive and manually move it over, this Migration Assistant seems so usable and friendly. But, right now, I'm more than three hours behind in my work and no further along than when I started. Any suggestions?
TIA
Dale

 

[chscag]

Welcome to the Mac Forums Dale.

Please read through the following Apple knowledge base article to see if it answers your questions about where your files are. If you have any further questions, please feel free to post again. LINK

One note.... you must be using at least XP SP3 on the Windows machine in order for the Windows Migration Assistant to work right. And of course your Mac must be running Lion.

 

[chas_m]

I completed the "setup" process and downloaded and installed several gb of my Bible application.

The answer to your question may be contained in your setup.

I think you've made the classic mistake of setting up an account BEFORE running the PC migration instead of during it DURING the setup (as you would have been prompted to do).

Your files are probably all on your Mac. In ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

This is because you had already set up an account, so of course it can't overwrite what you already have there, so it puts stuff in a different user account.

Look in your Users folder and see if there isn't an account there that wasn't there yesterday.

 

[FloGold]

migration assistant

I just completed transfer of my files using the migration assistant, but it created a new user. How do I integrate everything into one?

 

[chscag]

Copy everything over from the new user it created to your old user account. Once everything has been copied and verified working right, delete the new user.

 

[FloGold]

it worked, thanks!