Migration problem in Mavericks

In Mavericks, Migration Assistant not recognize my Time Machine disk. Time Machine is OK, see the disk, but Migration Assistant not.

Howdy all,
This may be a resolution to the issue here…it worked for me, so I am sharing in case this works for others.
In trying to migrate my older MacBookPro to a new MacBookPro, I was having the same issue that many folks are having where the Migration Assistant doesn’t see the external USB drive with my Time Machine backup. After reading through the posts by a user, Pondini, I discovered that I had the “bug” that was causing my automatic backups to exclude the Applications, System and Library folders. For those of you not familiar with this “bug”, it is described by user Pondini here: http://pondini.org/TM/D10.html. I performed the following steps which seemed to resolve the backup issue and subsequently allowed the Migration Assistant to “see” my external USB backup drive and perform the data migration:
1. I performed the “Full Reset of Time Machine” as described by user “Pondini” here: http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html. I first deleted the file: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist. NOTE: I DID NOT IMMEDIATELY PERFORM A NEW TIME MACHINE BACKUP AT THIS POINT…I did the next steps first.
2. I quit ALL applications - including any that might be running in the background…like Intego’s Virus Barrier software that continuously runs “Real-Time Scanning” of my system. I believe that the Virus Barrier software was interfering with the Time Machine backup process and causing the Applications, System and Library folders to somehow be excluded from my backups. However, I cannot say this definitively. But turning off Virus Barrier seemed to solve the issue for me. Is anyone else with this issue running Intego’s Virus Barrier? Or perhaps something similar in the background?
3. Next, I did a fresh Time Machine backup selecting the same external USB drive I had been using. When this subsequent backup was complete, the Application, System and Library folders were there.
4. I turned on my new MacBookPro (running Mavericks), and started the Migration Assistant application. DO NOT PLUG IN THE EXTERNAL DRIVE YET. I selected the option to migrate from an existing Time Machine backup. Once at the screen with the spinning grey wheel that says: “Looking for sources…”, THEN I plugged in the external USB drive, turned it on and it was immediately discovered. I hit “Continue” and it transferred everything to the new MacBookPro as it was supposed to.
5. I have run subsequent Time Machine backups from my new MacBookPro running Mavericks and have not seen the exclusion issue reoccur, but I’ll keep an eye on it.
Hope this helps. Thanks to all for their input on this issue…especially user “Pondoni” - who I understand passed away before this issue was resolved.

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