Old iMac won't migrate to new iMac

Have a iMac running Mavericks and i have tried to use migration to transfer files to new iMac running Yosemite the New iMac sees the old iMac and assigns a code number but the old iMac can't find the new iMac. What could be causing this.

Thanks for the advise, but I choose to install from my Time Machine Backup. The only difference is now I have two logins, the transferred original one from Mavericks and the new one using Yosemite's setup. I really don't consider this a problem and I'm just happy that I have an excellent fast running operating system. Man is that Intel 3.5 quad core i5 processor fast and it has a turbo boost to 3.9 GHz.

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