Time Machine Restore error

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I just bought the new macbook pro and im trying to restore my time machine backups from my old computer on the new macbook pro, and every time it starts to transfer it says at the end there is an error and it cant transfer my files, anybody know whats up???? why is this happening
 
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its not resore you need to do, you cant restore something the computer never had, you need to migrate
 
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When are you trying to restore? There is a part during the begging process with a new machine that will ask you if you want to transfer (or something similar) settings from a time machine backup. Is that where you are, or are you trying to do it a different way?
 
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its not resore you need to do, you cant restore something the computer never had, you need to migrate

Yep thats what i ment migrate jajaja sorry about that, but yeah every time i migrate almost at the end of the migration which takes hours it gives me an error message and it gives me to options to try again or continue, i always click try again and nothing it does the same thing all over again.
 

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