Can't get my iMac and MacBook to see each other using Migration Asst.

Kappy, thanks for your help. I wanted to try your suggestions before I responded. Sorry it took so long. I found file sharing was already active on my iMac. It's a late 2009 21.5". Processor is a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Not sure what else I might need to give you. I turned on file sharing on my laptop and chose the same items that were chosen on my iMac. i.e:File sharing, Printer sharing & Remote Login. I've never used file sharing before so I don't know if those are the common/best things to select or not. Made sure both computers were using the same wifi network and went back to Migration Assistant. I had the laptop as the receiving computer and the iMac sending "To another Mac." The little clockwork looking wheel kept going round and round on both computers for at least 5 minutes before I 'quit' on both computers. So I followed your link to "Target Disk Mode." Followed the instructions and found my laptop hard disc sitting on my iMac desktop. My laptop screen only showed the Firewire logo floating around. I proceeded to copy apps, folders and documents that I thought I might want to my laptop hard drive. I know it was copying because some of the info took 20 to 30 minutes to copy. After I got most all that I wanted, I ejected my laptop HD from my iMac and then turned off my laptop. After disconnecting the firewire cable I started my laptop, signed in and I have no idea where all the items are that I copied onto my laptop. I can't find them anywhere. I had my laptop finder window open while it was sitting on my iMac desktop. And as I dragged an item to the HD it would appear in it's finder window. I guess I should have checked some of the folders that I copied to see what they showed before I ejected the HD.

Yes, I drug them from the finder's window on my iMac and dropped them onto the MBP's icon on the desktop. I also had the MBP's finder window open, and when I dropped the file onto the icon I could see it appear in the finder's window. Couldn't find this 'root' directory, so I asked "how do I find it?" on my browser and found the keyboard shortcut of Command+Shift+G, then type / and hit return. Lo and behold, there it all was. Just to see what happens, I've drug one of the smaller items and one folder to another location and they seem have copied over OK, but the original is still in the root directory. Can I now safely get rid of the item still in the root directory? I really appreciate all your help, Kappy!!

Wonderful! You were a great help, Kappy!