OSX 10.8 migration assistant does not find my usb time machine disk
Hello.
I have got a late 2011 Macbook Pro and I have just made a fresh installation of Mac OSX 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). I would like to use migration assistant to restore user accounts and data from an external USB time machine disk. Backup was made on the same computer with the same OS. The only thing different is the internal HDD that I had to replace.
The USB disk is connected and well mounted in the finder. The time machine backup data is accessible.
Yet migration assistant keeps searching for a data source and does not find it ("Searching for other computers").
I had the same problem a couple of months ago when restoring data on a brand new iMac from a firewire external hdd time machine backup. But the backup data came from an older iMac and I had finally made it by connecting the two computers with a cable. Migration assistant did find the data that way. Unfortunately, there is no way to use such a trick this time.
Does anyone has an idea that could help me ?
Many thanks for your help ! 🙂
Pascal
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)