Migration from older mac to new

I have an iMac running 10.6.8. I just purchased a new iMac with Yosemite installed. I am trying to migrate my files from my old mac. On the new mac I am getting a yellow triangle ! that says my old mac is not running the newest version of OS X , and I need to upgrade to continue to migrate. I just upgraded to 10.6.8 which I was told by the apple "chat" line would take care of this.

Connect the old machine's Time Machine backup or bootable clone backup (via USB) to the new machine. Launch Migration Assistant, select the backup drive and off you go. Extremely simple to do.

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