Hi Esther, In the end I just uploaded to a NAS and am now downloading again. Slower but it gets the job done.
Cheers, must investigate Airdrop. Dónal On 17 Sep 2012, at 19:05, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] 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 >>> [email protected] >>> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > 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/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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/> Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] 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/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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/>
