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I just downloaded Lion to my iMac. Now want to transfer it to MacBook Air before I open it on the iMac. Working from iMac; 4G thumb drive says not enoough room. iDisk not big enough. Tried to transfer via wifi (time capsule) by draging from iMac app folder to the MBA that shows up in the shared label in the side bare and get a message saying ""... can't be moved because Geoffrey Kloster's MacBook Air can't be modified. File sharing is on in both computers.
Tried going other way (working through MBA) but can't get to the iMac. Remote disk shows the remote computer with a note "waiting for disk drive..."
It took 11 hours to download so I'd really like to transfer from one Mac to the other. How can I do it?
Thanks
Geoff

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