Used migration assistant but now new software is gone

OOk, after a somewhat nightmarish experience of trying to transfer my data and applications from my old MacBook pro to my new macbook air, by wiping the MacBook Air clean and using migration assistant, I've discovered that the new version of pages, presentation and imessage etc are all missing. Is there a way to get them back?! I rather liked the new version of pages.

What exactly do you mean by "my profile"? Your user account may or may not show up in various places but if it exists it should have a home folder visible in the root level "Users" folder, identified by its short account name. Even if you log into your wife's account, you should be able to see this folder (although you won't necessarily be able to open most of its enclosed folder).
For example, if your user account was named "jay" on your G4, you should see a folder of that name in the Users folder.

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I have accidentally created another account when using Migration Assistant to a new MBA. I have read that I probably should not have skipped migration in the initial set up and the problem would have been avoided but, alas, here I am. Does anyone know how I can 'migrate' all the files from one of the accounts that has been created to the other, so then I can delete it and have a single user on the computer seeing as I am the only person using it? I have read starting again, if this is the way to go, where is the best place to start 'starting again'?

Yes definitely should see it but its not coming up (I don't think) when I log out of 2nd user and into the main account. Opening finder in the 2nd account, I can obviously find the public folder because thats where I dropped all the files, but when in the main account, it can't be found. The only public folder that comes up is the folder for that account (main account) and it does not display files I'm looking for. Frustrating....
EDIT: Have found it through a round-about way but all music and photo and movie etc files have a red stop sign disallowing them from being transferred. Can you guess what the next question will be?

I bought a new computer running Lion 10.7.3 and transferred my applications and files from my old Mac using migration assistant but I can't find/transfer my photos from iPhoto and I can't find my old documents such as previous tax returns.

I bought a new computer running Lion 10.7.3 and transferred my applications and files from my old Mac using migration assistant but I can't find/transfer my photos from iPhoto and I can't find my old documents such as previous tax returns.

Look for them on your old computer, when found copy the files to a USB drive and move them to the new computer.

I transferred about 400 gigs of data from my MacBook Pro to my new iMac using Migration Assistant, but it doesn't show on Finder. How can I locate my data?

I transferred about 400 gigs of data from my MacBook Pro to my new iMac using Migration Assistant, but can't find any of my data on Finder. I'm thinking that the data got transferred but not cataloged. Finder shows about 400 gigs of my hard drive being used, but the files it shows don't come anywhere close to 400 gigs. How can I find out what is really on the hard drive and how can I access my MacBook files I transferred?

I suggest that you start over, boot into Internet recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, erase and reformat the HD with one partition and GUID option, quit Disk Utility, restore the OS, and on first boot, use the Setup Assistant to migrate from the MacBook, following the steps in Pondini's Setup New Mac guide. If that doesn't solve your problem, contact Apple's Support. If they recommend the same steps, I'd opt to return the machine and get another (you can do that the first 14 days you own it, no questions asked).
27" i7 iMac (Mid 2011) refurb, OS X Yo (10.10.1), Mavs, ML & SL, G4 450 MP w/10.5 & 9.2.2

How to recover my backups?? i used migration assistant but none of my old files showed up. I backed up daily and did a full disk back up twice.

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Open System Preferences and select Users & Groups. Assuming the migration was successful, you now have a new account - it was migrated. Migration Assistant doesn't copy files, it copies accounts. To see your documents you'll need to log into the account you migrated. (It has the same password it did on the other computer.)

After using migration assistant to a new Mac 10.9.5, Outlook failed to open...mssge "Could not rebuild database -18000"

After using migration assistant to my new MacBook Retina 10.9.5, Outlook failed to open...mssge "Could not rebuild database -18000"

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I have used migration assistant but new profile is created, how do i merge into one

I have recently purchased Mac book and have used migration assistant to transfer files from my old windows PC.
Due to some issues when using migration tool i had to transfer in segments, each time i did this a new user was created.
I have asked for some help and was advised that users cannot be merged however the files can be shared via dropbox.
I have received instructions as to how to do this but am stuck as once I get to the point of dropbox, I do not know what step to take next to add files into dropbox?.
Below are instructions
Pick a User Account your going to keep, make sure it's a Admin account and if need to, log into another Admin account and make it so in System Preferences > accounts.
One logs out of their current account by using the Apple menu > Log out.
Next while in one of the accounts your later planing on removing, go to the Finder > Go > Computer and window opens.
Open the MacintoshHD partition, then the Users folder and the User Account you plan to keep, then the Public folder and then locate the DropBox folder for that User. Any files placed in there will change permissions and be accessible to that user when you log into it.

The Dropbox folder is a subfolder of the home folder, which has the same name as the user account. It's under the Users folder at the top level of the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.)

Just used Migration Assistant but spotlight won't index files on new iMac computer.

I just used Migration Assistant to move files from my old 2008 Mac Pro to a new 2013 iMac 27" both Intel based. Files and applications all moved over fine and I can access them in Finder but Spotlight won't index the files. Should I be reindexing something or do I need to do somethign for spotlight to recognize the new filez I migrated?
Thanks!

You can force a Spotlight index, just let it run and your migration should be just fine. Instructions are in:
Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes located at: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

IPhoto won't work on my OLD imac after using migration assistant to my new imac.

So I recently used migration assistant to transfer all of my documents, music, photos, etc. to my new imac which was purchased a month ago. I used an 800 firewire and the migration was successful and there seems to be not problems on the new computer. However I went on my old imac to load some new photos off of my iphone. Much to my dismay iphoto opened up with a window that said, "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto. You have made changes to your photo library using a newer version of iPhoto. Please quit and use the latest version of iPhoto." I don't recall ever using iPhoto on either of the computers during migration assistant aside from putting the old photos into iPhoto on the new computer. The old imac is a Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it still has iLife '06. So how would I go about fixing this? Should I update to iLife '11 or is there an easier way without using new software? Thank you!

Then that looks ver like you opened the Library on the old machine with the new iPhoto on the new machine, and it has now been updated to iPhoto 11.
Before deciding to update, make sure your machine can run the same version of iPhoto as the new machine.
Regards
TD

Used migration assistant but can't find my stuff

I recently purchased a new iMac 21.5 inch screen. I ran the Setup Assistant and then later ran the Migration Assistant. I migrated my files on the old computer (2006 iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8) first using an ethernet cable between the two computers, and then second using Time Machine. I followed all of the instructions but now can find my migrated files. They don't show up on my new iMac running Mavericks. Help!!!

If you used Migration Assistant it creates a second user account. Log out of your user account and log back into the new account and you will find your data.

HT4796 I started Migration Assistant and then my old computer spontaneously restarted. I am back in Migration Assistant but my [new] iMac is still waiting for input from my old computer, and my old computer is waiting for the iMac to connect. What do I

I have a new iMac. I'm using Migration Assistant to transfer files. My old computer spontaneously shut down. I restarted it and am trying to use Migration Asst again, but each computer is waiting on input from the other one. What do I do?

Let me see if I've gotten this right! You want to remove an account from BOTH machines? Do this for your new machine first, then for the other.
Click the Apple logo on the top left of the screen, System Preferences, Users and Groups (under Systems), unlock the lock in the window if its locked (you need to know the password), select the user that you wish to remove, and click the - sign next to the + sign for Login options. A window will pop up with some options. Select Delete this user and securely, and click 'Delete user'.
After this, do an update from the App Store.
Thats all there is to it.
For the other machine repeat the process except for one thing. Before you delete the user in this case YOU, you will have to give Administrator priviledges to your son bu checking the box 'Allow user to administer this computer'.
Do NOT do anything from Finder ... if you dont know how to fix the consequences of the problems caused.
There is no need to unauthorize your iTunes account on your new machine. Do it on the old machine though.

Used migration assistant but says i dont have "sufficient privileges"

I used migration assistant las night and got all my applications in the applications folders but left all the other ones in another folder. when i go t open the photos or movies or documents or any other one it has a little red badge on it. when i open it it says i do not have sufficient privileges. can some one please help.
thank you so much in advance.

When I first noticed the problem is when I first tried opening up iTunes this week for the first time in a while. It says this. This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. Then I tried downloading the new version and got that message I sent from the previous reply. Then it tells me to abort retry or ignore. It says iTUNES was not installed correctly. It says to do so. Error 7 Windows Errror 126

I just used Migration Assistant but nothing happened??

I connected my 13" black MacBook to my 13" MacBook Pro and wen't through the steps in the Migration Assistant utility. I only slected to migrate my "users" which contained my music, documents, pictures etc... It took about 1:20 min. Whe it was complete I opened iPhoto and iTunes but nothing was there. What gives?

Not really. It's not a simple matter to copy your data from one account to the other because of permissions that will not allow you to transfer from one user's account to another, and what you may transfer will not allow you access. You would then need to change the ownership via a series of Terminal commands.
It's best to use the migrated account and delete the account you created using the Setup Assistant.

Should I uninstall Creative Cloud and CC apps before using migration assistant to my new imac?

I have heard that Creative Cloud and CC apps dont transfer well with the Migration Assistant from Apple.
I have a new iMac with Yosemite. Should I uninstall everything before using the Migration Assistant and then re-install Creative Cloud and apps afterward by downloading from the Adobe site again on the new iMac?
Is there a link to full instructions how to completely uninstall CC and the apps and clean up?

Hi There,
Kindly follow the below mentioned steps.
Try to Sign out, Sign in | Creative Cloud Desktop app
Sign in, activation, or connection errors | CS5.5 and later
If that doesn't help.
Try to uninstall the product and run the Adobe CC cleaner tool to be on a safer side.
Install Creative Cloud app, Install the product again.
Kindly revert if the problem still persists.
Thanks,
Atul Saini

I used migration assistent but all Iwork apps give an error

Because my Macbook died, I transferred everything from there over to my IMac. Both macs had well functioning pages, numbers etc apps before, but after migration, none of them works anymore. The dialogue window says: Pages can't open because of a problem. You may need to reinstall the application.
Now I do still have the installation CD, but this is being thrown out right after I gave it in.
What to do?

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
iWork apps require some additional files that looks like they aren't on your hard drive, and that's why you are getting an error. Unfortunately, the only solution is to reinstall iWork from the DVD.
Also, you can try to install the latest iWork version from  > Software Update

Used migration assistant but now new software is gone

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