Migration assistant via thunderbolt doesn't work

Been at it for 16 hours. Transferring from iMac 2.7 to MacBook Pro 2.3. Any suggestions?

See if this page from the Pondini site has any answers for you:
http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html
If all else fails, consider Target disk mode:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
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My old Mac Mini (running Leopard) died and I just got a new one. I had an extern disk that was used as the boot drive for the old mini, so I attached it to the new one and turned on the new mini. I was lead through the screens and got to the one regarding migrating user folders, systems files, etc from an attached volume to the new mini; it displayed the correct volume and listed all the file/folder choices including the users (me and my wife). Everything seems to have gone well, except when it finished migrating and presented the login screen, I choose my former admin account (me) but kept getting an error - the the password was wrong. After several tries, it presented a password hint, which is correct.
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Message was edited by: pvonk

Oh.... I just went to preferences>accounts again (using my wife's account) and for login options, the screen correctly shows the former settings; auto login with my account, etc. But when I reboot, it doesn't auto login, just presents the list of users. So I think the bottom line is that the password got corrupted during migration.
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I have a question related to one you answered above: "bought a new Mac, migrated data, now CS4 doesn't work."
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My Macbook Pro's HDD fried a week ago, so I swapped it for a new one. I had a backup from about 30mins before the issue happened, so I thought everything would go fine with Time Machine. Well, not quite. After installing Mac OS X Mavericks from the Disk Utility and telling the system to apply the latest backup on Migration Assistant during the installation, everything started up the way I left it, but several problems showed up and I have been trying to troubleshoot them.
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2. I tried doing a clean install and when the Migration Assistant showed up I asked to transfer everything except personal documents and data. It worked, but I lost all my personal files that are not on dropbox (not many, but there were a few important things). Also the wifi didn't connect at all, kept saying it was self assigning an IP or whatever. This did not happen before.
3. Not using migration assistant at all, but restarting the system and restoring a time machine backup, even an earlier one from that same day. Mac gets stuck on spinning wheel during boot :/
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ragob66,
Welcome to the Apple discussions!
Try this:
*Accessing Time Machine Backups From Another User Account or Computer*
Yes, you can do this using the Time Machine interface.
Attach the drive containing the TM backups to your computer.
Control-click the TM icon in the dock and select "Browse Other Time Machine Disks...".
Highlight the desired disk and click “Use Selected Disk”. This will now allow you to browse those TM backups via the ‘time travel’ window. From here you can restore what files you need access to. Bear in mind that any files moved will have the permissions of that previous user account. Thus you may be prompted for the user name and password of that previous account. However, once verified you should be able to adjust “Sharing & Permissions” in the files “Get Info” window.
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IPhone 5 contacts local sync via usb doesn't work - updated

Syncing an iPhone 5, AT&T 64GB, with Macbook Air 11" mid-2011, 1.8GHz / 4GB.
OS X 10.10.2; iTunes 12.1.0.50; iOS 8.1.3.
I am trying to sync my contacts from my OS X Contacts App to my iPhone 5 via USB. The contacts do not sync. The contacts are local, "on my mac". I am using a usb cable through iTunes.
The iPhone 5 was just restored by Apple Configurator, set up as new iPhone, and is supervised by the MacBook Air.
I am also synchronizing my local Calendars from the OS X Calendar app; these transfer just fine. This makes me think it is probably not to do with the entire setup of the iPhone, i.e. that it is managed by apple configurator, since some of the sync works correctly.
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