Step 5: Running and watching
The Run step only unlocks once you have started something. While a run is live, all navigation is frozen: you cannot go back, and you should not close the tab.
Do verification first, read what it says, then start the migration. The two use the same settings, so nothing changes underneath you.
#What verification does
Reads every real page in scope and checks you have edit permission on it.
Runs each conversion in memory and reports what it would produce.
Never saves. No page is written and no content is created.
Always continues past failures, whatever the Skip errors setting says, so one pass surfaces every problem.
Messages are phrased as "Would migrate…" and the header carries a "Dry run, nothing is written" badge.
#What the real run does
Finds pages by search and processes them in ascending page id order, which broadly means oldest content first.
Saves each converted page as a new version labelled "Migrated by Capable".
Only saves a page when its content actually changed, so pages that matched the search but needed nothing are read and left alone.
Revisits pages for the migrators that need a second pass, once everything else has finished and saved.
Copies library assets such as templates, saved searches and image libraries once, at the end.
#What you see while it runs
On screen | What it tells you |
|---|---|
Progress header | N of M pages checked, elapsed time, pages per minute, and an estimate to finish |
Four stat cards | Pages changed, Macros migrated, Macros failed, Unsupported. All four are clickable |
Activity log | A live, streaming row per page. It can be paused without losing rows |
Pressing "Back to selection" or "Start migration" from here wipes the results on screen. Download the log first. There is no way to get those results back.
#A few things that catch people out
The run lives entirely in this browser tab. The run happens in this browser tab. You cannot close it and come back, and nothing notifies you when it finishes.
A long run needs a machine that will not sleep. Check your power settings before starting a site-wide migration.
"N pages skipped, no space metadata returned by search" under the progress bar means pages the run could not resolve to a space. They are dropped entirely and never appear in the log.
#Related
Verify, read it, then migrate.
