12-30-2010, 03:56 PM

I'm pulling my hair out! Not tech savvy. Ok here's the deal. Have a 5 yr old macbook with snow leopard installed and software updated to 10.6.5. Just purchased (off ebay) a macbook pro. Not sure of age, but it is 2.16 and has 500hd. When I got it, I installed snow leopard and everything worked fine. Then I tried transferring all my old mac to the new mac using a 400 firewire. Had some issues, but then it looked like it went through. But none of it was where it was on my old mac and I couldn't open any of them. It said I wasn't authorized and couldn't find half of it. So after countless hrs of messing with that I started over. Did get some to open, but was still frustrated soo. Did a write zero (quickest one) and reinstalled Snow leopard on new macbook. Tried to do it all over and still can't transfer my stuff. Now when i get to the part where I plug in the firewires and hold down the T and restart. The T shows up on new mac, but it says either "old mac doesn't have os x " or just spins saying "looking for discs" What is going on? Any suggestions?

12-30-2010, 05:40 PM

Try using migration assistant, Applications > Utilities > Migration Assistant.

Hope this helps and you will stop pulling your hair out

- Simon

12-31-2010, 04:25 PM

Thanks, but I already tried using it and got to the same place. I realized I had all my discs for my applications so I just started over and reinstalled and then transferred everything by zip drive. Slow, but it's working. I just need to transfer my itunes and iphotos now. So I should be in good shape. Thanks.

12-31-2010, 04:32 PM

If you have a external hard drive you can copy your music folder from Finder and make a back up on the external hard drive. This might take a while depending on the size of your library.