Compressor fails on export after transferring to new Mac

The motherboard on my 13" MacBook Pro from mid-2010, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 seems to have died so I had to do a transfer of its hard drive to a new MacBook Pro running Mavericks 10.9.2 and this included Final Cut 6.0.6 with Compressor 3.0.5 both of which worked fine at the point of the motherboard dying on the old MBPro, and I have been able to edit to my heart's content on Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 just fine also on the new one.
I have my custom presets for exports and when I choose to export using Compressor I normally get it to launch, add my custom setting from a set I have for this purpose and away we go.
However, now I had a location warning (it was set to Source although my setting preference was to Desktop on the old MBPro and I hadn't changed it) and when I changed it manually or even automatically (by resetting the default) the export fails.
What could have gone awry in the move of the installed Final Cut Pro 6/Compressor software that causes this failure? If anyone knows- please can you tell me in lay terms as I am beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed by the high learning curve over the past two days. Thank you so much for reading.
(PS: I do have a FCPro 7 upgrade for my retail version of FCPro 6 but hadn't got around to installing it and now just need a familiar sight during this period of editing without also needing to cope with changes there. In case you are wondering if I really mean FCPro 6 and not 7 as mentioned in my "Product")

>...I had to do a transfer of its hard drive to a new MacBook Pro running Mavericks 10.9.2...
By copying the applications folder or the FCS apps from within it?
That won't work. an installation of FCS, including FCP 7 and earlier places a lot of files deep inside the Library and System folders.
Copying the apps or using Migration Assistant does not bring those support files over. This is why you are having problems.
The correct way would be to install from the original media (DVD disk set).
That brings it's own difficulties as installing FCS 2 on anything higher than Mac OS X 10.7 is not straight forward - there are several threads here about this.
Installing FCS 3 (2009) should work, at least in theory. Bear in mind that this newer version was discontinued in 2011. Later Mac OS X upgrades have been made since which do not take into account whether FCS will cease to work at some point.
Several people have FCS working on 10.9, including myself. Note that my copy was installed originally in 10.6 and the OS upgraded on top - you won't be able to do this on your new Mac because it will not install or boot into Mac OS X 10.6.
Remove FCP 6, Compressor etc using this free tool: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/
Install your FCP 7 from the Upgrade disks - all the files you need for a full installation are on there, you just need the serial numbers as requested by the installer. It's not that different and will still open your projects from FCP 6 without problems.

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