I ended up more or less doing that Gordon, except I used a NAS.  Did the job I 
was writing to the list only in case there was a method I didn't know of.

Dónal
On 20 Sep 2012, at 11:31, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Donal
> 
> It's not the best way of doing this job, but with Migration assistant, you 
> can actually check boxes for which types of files you want to move.  But what 
> I would suggest you do is, if possible, just move/copy the files on block to 
> an external disk then copy them back over that way.  If you're talking about 
> a complete user account, you could then use Migration assistant and select 
> another volume.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> On 17 Sep 2012, at 17:01, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately the Air doesn't have a firewire port.  You're right though 
> Target mode would be an option if they did have those ports.
> 
> Dónal
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