Have you tried doing it with a Firewire connection? I always migrate to a new computer that way, and it also worked fine under Mavericks.

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Rick Davis

> Hi, Nisus.
> 
> Who do you turn to when you have big problems with Apple? The nice people on this forum, natch.
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> I have just bought a new MacBook Air to replace an older, similar machine. Both are running the latest version of Mavericks.
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> I can got the machines to collaborate over the migration of files. I have tried both via wifi and with a Time Machine backup saved to an external disk but Migration Assistant on the old machine, once the two machines have identified the source for the new files, quits and reboots,
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> I have discovered on the web that there is a recognised problem with Mavericks. It is something to do with logging out of a virtual disk and there are suggested work arounds of going into Console and typing stuff.
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> All that is too complicated for me.
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> Can anyone kindly suggest a simple way in which I can migrate everything from one machine to the other? I have the two Airs plus an external drive.
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> TIA.
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> T