Transfer from mac to mac

I have bought a new MacBook and was transferring everything from my old Mac. I had decided to on my new Mac to have more ram and less Hard drive as I am storing on external and in the cloud. When I used Migration assitant it told me there was not enough disk space. I now have an isssue where Itunes is not showing itself on my new Mac as it does on my old. It tells my my new mac is not authorised. I do I authorise it and how can I transfer files?
Thank you hope thats not to confusing
Regards
Iain

iTunes Store: Authorize or deauthorize your Mac or PC - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420 - and another helpful post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17828050
iTunes application window (not Finder or a browser) > menus at top >  Store menu > drag down to Authorize This Computer. (In earlier versions of iTunes access this option from the Advanced menu).
Image of where this is in iTunes 11: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20585561
Typically you use Migration Assistant to move items from an old computer to a new one.
OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872
If the new computer has too little space you may beed to do selective moving.  I have never use MA so I don't know if there is a selective mode.  Alternatively, hrere's how to move an iTunes library.  However, since an iTunes library is often what takes up a lot of space you may have to be even more selective.
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music [library] to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 - a somewhat bewildering and not always easily understandable set of options.
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings:  Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive.  Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows), then guide it to the iTunes Library.itl file in the moved iTunes folder.
For the record there's this reference for iTunes 11 but it really doesn't strike me as having the specifics you need. iTunes 11 for Mac: Move your library to another computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12168 
Windows users see tip at: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18879381
If you put it in the default location of Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Music  then you don't even need to start with the option key held down, iTunes will automatically look for it there.  (Make sure there isn't anything already in the iTunes folder there that you want to keep since you will be replacing it with the one you are moving.)

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