I think I recall there is a way to set up a Mac so that it is a slave to another Mac, possibly in Recovery Partition.
However as an alternative an obvious response, and probably a stupid suggestion because it is obvious , it occurs to me why don't you just use an external USB hard drive to act as the go between the MBP and Air? In the process you will also gain a backup. I appreciate disk errors may cause a problem with copying this amount of data but you could presumably schedule it into copying say 10 10 gb chunks? David Griffith David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Dónal Fitzpatrick Sent: 17 September 2012 16:37 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: moving files from one mac to another. Afternoon all, I should know the answer to this but can't remember it. I want to move a folder from my old MBP to a new Air. It's 98 GB in size. I was thinking of using a crossover network cable and using filesharing, and the appropriate permissions, to accomplish this. I've looked at Migration assistant, but it seems to be an "all or nothing" type scenario. In other words, you can move users, applications (customisable) and then "all other files". I don't want all other files, just one specific part of the hierarchy. Can't use dropbox the folder in question is too big. Does anyone have a better way of doing this? Dónal Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
