Hi Dónal, Can't you just ftp or sftp from one machine to the other if they're both on either a wireless or wired network? Do you have the USB ethernet connector for the MacBook Air? Of course, with 98 GB, that might take a while. Also, AirDrop is supposed to work as a way to share files between supported, Wi-Fi enabled Macs, without having to connect through the wireless network for Lion and above, and your MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer) and MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer) might qualify for that. Again, that might take a while to move.
Do the files have to go over from your MacBook Pro? Do you have access to the cloned backup drive for your MBP on which you run CCC or SuperDuper? I make sure that my backup drives can use both USB and firewire connectors. I don't have any Thunderbolt compatible drives yet, but that's also supposed to be able to support a variant of target disk mode. Cheers, Esther On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:15 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi David, > > No you're right, absolutely right in fact, but alas I don't have my USB disk > with me and I *need* to move this stuff. > > The mbp is going in for a battery service tomorrow and I've no intention of > leaving 100 gig of audio on there just in case it gets, shall we say, > "borrowed". > > Dónal > On 17 Sep 2012, at 17:12, David Griffith wrote: > >> 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/>
