Migration Assistant - Old MBP Not Finding New MBP

Just bought a new Mac Book Pro. I am using migration assistant to move my old MBP files to the new one using an ethernet cable. My new mac book found the old mac book but the old mac book cannot find the new one (running MA on both laptops). Any suggestions?

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I have a 2006 MacBook 1.83Ghz (A1181) running OS 10.7.5 and I am trying to migrate to a new MacBookPro via SetUp Assistant.
I use the 2006 MB to run a business.
My initial attempt at SetUp Assistant via machine-to-machine ethernet failed, hanging @ Less Than a Minute Remaining (Transferring Apps) for over 12 hours.
2006 MB has energy settings set to "Disk never sleeps" and wifi off.
I then tried SetUp Assistant via Target Disk Mode to the old machine, but the new MBP didnt like the FW400 to FW800 connection and did not recognize the source (TargetMode) disk. I have an adaper to convert the FW800 cable (new MBP) to FW400 (2006 MB). The cable works fine with other uses with the adapter.
I then tried SetUp Assistant via Time Machine backup, hanging @ Less Than 12 Minutes Remaining (Transferring Apps) for over 12 hours.
I then reformatted the new MBP drive various times, reloaded the OS from the Recovery partition and tried only migrating User files (not apps). Still hanging.
I called Applecare and was instructed to go thru SetUp Assistant and create a new user (ie do not migrate data), update the OS to 10.8.3 then invoke Migration (not SetUp) Assistant. I was able to copy over Users after another apparent hang of 6 hours. At the end of the UserFile migation, it complained of not migrating some files due to incompatibility (Parallels). This approach now left me with 2 users and Time Machine created a new backup (not leveraging my previous backup). Apple says that I can still access the old Time machine backup, but Spotlight doesnt index it so I'd need to manually hunt thru backups.backupdb for files desired (not ideal!)
I went back to my 2006 MB and removed Parallels, and any other (stale) app that no longer works with 10.7.5 (represented by the circle-slash icon overlaid on app icon). So another reformat of the MBP, OS re-install and SetUp Assistant run via ethernet leaves me hanging @ Less 17 Minutes Remaining (Transferring Apps) for over 12 hours.
Being that I am upgrading hardware to support a business, I want the new machine to be identical to the old with Time Machine with one user allowing me to use the existing TimeMachine data with the new machine (as mentioned here on Pondini: http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrationProblems.html )
Has anyone come across this challenge? I have read thru the Message Boards here and have not tripped over an apparent solution.
I am more than happy to manually copy files over from old to new, but want just the one (2006 MB) user with existing Time machine working seemlessly on new machine in the end.
Thanks in advance.
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Yes - let's compare migration assistant/time machine to Carbon Copy Cloner. Migration Assistant is only useful to transfer files. Other than that, forget it. Craps out at "less than a minute to go" when trying to lay down an image. Better to use Recovery in Disc Utility or Super Duper/Carbon Copy Cloner to copy an image if you have multiple accounts, password-protected disc images, partitions. Seriously Apple, why do you have to suck at exection of something so simple and standard - laying down a disc image? Why even put people through your useless migration assistant? Oh right, we need to buy some additional cables to do so.
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You can also type "move itunes library from pc to mac" into the google search bar.
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David McQ wrote:
Thank you for your quick and thorough reply, Dale.
You are welcome!
Of course things are never quite as simple as the question. I would have taken the suggested course of action but for the fact that: (1)The "old" drive has 400GB+ data on it and the new drive is 320GB,
Oh, I see!
(2) I need it operational and ready to go when I leave for an extended trip outside of the US on Tuesday, meaning I can't buy more drives nor spend a ton of time with this project.
You might be able to get away with that for awhile.
I am a little annoyed that my old MBP decided to die at this time
What happened to it?
The OS X version was the same on both drives, by the way. I should have indicated 10.6.5 in my original post.
Yes, but it is still possible there could be things missing, in the OS on the old drive, the the new Mac needs thereby causing issues.
Of course now I have been using the old drive in the new MBP and have done some updating, as well. Not sure how that plays into it all.
Well, I would download and install the 10.6.5 Combo update then if you used the delta update supplied by Software Update. You can install it right over what you have now.
You'll have better results with the Combo under these circumstances.
Then maybe you can do the fresh install the right way when you get back.
DALE

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Hi,
I just bought a new MacBook Pro and am trying to migrate from my Tiger-based (10.4.10) dual 1 GHz Mac (mirrored-drive door) desktop machine. The boot drive on the Tiger machine is actually partitioned into an emergency boot drive of a few GB and my main working drive ("Macintosh HD"). When I run Migration Assistant (MA) on my MBP (after connecting the 6-pin Firewire cable and restarting the Tiger Mac in target disk mode), the MBP sees only the emergency boot-up partition and not the main working partition from which I want to migrate.
I tried MA on my MBP connected to a different Mac with no HD partitions, and it sees "Macintosh HD" just fine, so I think all the new hardware is okay as well as the Firewire cable.
Any ideas?
-Eric

Thanks for the info. I do know something about this (being a HW engineer), but I would have thought that the IDE master/slave jumpers would affect all the partitions on the disk. Since my emergency-boot partition is visible, I take that to mean that the IDE master/slave jumper issue is a non-issue for me.
I don't know if this helps, but here's what Disk Utility reports about the disk (not the volumes residing on it):
Name : ST380021A
Type : Disk
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : ST380021A Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : ATA
Connection Type : Internal
Connection ID : Device 0
Partition Type : Applepartitionscheme
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : Yes
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 74.5 GB (80,026,361,856 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
Now, onto the partitions which I know less about.
Here's what Disk Utility says about the Macintosh HD partition:
Name : Macintosh HD
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk1s10
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:10
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : E6E9B335-60D0-3F06-97F9-2A9BAC522106
Capacity : 68.4 GB (73,411,137,536 Bytes)
Free Space : 819.5 MB (859,291,648 Bytes)
Used : 67.6 GB (72,546,123,776 Bytes)
Number of Files : 367,638
Number of Folders : 74,198
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 10
Here's what Disk Utility says about my emergency-boot partition:
Name : Clean Boot
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk1s12
Mount Point : /Volumes/Clean Boot
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : pci2/ata-6@D/@0:12
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 4A704075-200F-3CCB-B8ED-E7FEEDB655EC
Capacity : 5.9 GB (6,345,846,784 Bytes)
Free Space : 3.8 GB (4,133,232,640 Bytes)
Used : 2.1 GB (2,212,093,952 Bytes)
Number of Files : 76,846
Number of Folders : 19,664
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 12
I don't know how to determine from the above what the "first" partition would be. I don't know how to post an attachment here otherwise I'd show a screen shot, but when I got into Disk Utility's partition tab, the emergency-boot partition (called Clean Boot) shows up at the bottom of the space indicating all of the HD's space, and Macintosh HD shows above Clean Boot.
So what are my options? Can I repartition w/o loosing Macintosh HD (I'm willing to loose the other partition Clean Boot)? Any way to change the partition numbers?
I was thinking of cloning Macintosh HD to another HD and then migrating from that. Any experience with that?
Thanks, Eric

Old power supply does not fit new MBP

I recently got a new MBP to replace a 2011 unit that went bad. The wife also have a 2007 MBP. Over the years I have accumulated four 85 watt power supplies with the magnetic catch. Magsafe I believe they call it.
I keep one on my desk at the office and one on the desk at my home. I don't even have to take the new one out of the bag.
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baltwo wrote:
I'd get an external, bootable FireWire enclosure, put the new HD into it, ensure it runs the MBP, and then swap.
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