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Apr 14, 2015 5:40 PM in response to afromrnorristonby DBS0407,An AppleCare agent who used to do migrations in the store told me that's the best way to do this.
Check the connections first - if the connectors are in place and it doesn't work…
Take your old MacBook, along with your firewire-thunderbolt converter cable to an Apple store / dealer, and see if they can detect it on one of their machines.
I was trying to use an ethernet cable, and that didn't work at all - cable and connectors seem ok for my modem to Airport connection, but it didn't work at all for migrating data.
P.S. caution: photos on your MacBook, can be an issue to access on Yosemite (particularly with Aperture).
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Apr 14, 2015 5:46 PM in response to afromrnorristonby Drew Reece,Do you have Migration Assistant running on both Macs? I believe you need to have it open on both (I have not tried Thunderbolt to Firewire migrations).
You can also try 'target disk mode'…
How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode - Apple Support
That causes the Mac to appear as a hard disk over a Firewire/ Thunderbolt connection. The Mac that you startup whilst holding T should be visible to the other Mac for Migration Assistant to copy data from.
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Apr 14, 2015 5:52 PM in response to Drew Reeceby DBS0407,That's exactly correct Drew - open the MacBook in 'target disk mode', and Migration Assistant on the iMac.
That allows you to do everything from the machine where the data is migrating to (in this case the iMac).
Depending on how much data, let it run - mine took about 4 hours, and went well.