On 29/10/2007, at 8:00 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Hello all you early Leopard adopters,
I want to install Leopard from scratch, however I want my Mail to
stay in tact as far as the messages are concerned. I will be using
my thumb drive to backup and it holds 4GB of data. How can I get all
my mail settings, messages and mailboxes? Do I just backup the user
folders and install from scratch or what?
If you want to do a backup and install from scratch and still get
mail, you should just have to copy the mail folder that's under
library in your home directory and the preference file under
preferences. That one's called com.apple.mail.plist or something like
that, I think.
If you need your address book as well, I think the address book files
are in a folder under application support, and I imagine there's a
preference file under preferences for that, too.
That pretty much applies to any application you want to back up. For
the most part just find the preference file under preferences, find
the data that's usually stored under application support and back it up.
that's pretty much how I've done it, and I haven't lost anything.
Please don't send anyone armed with heavy blunt objects around to my
house and kill me, though, if you loseany data doing this. If you've
got the space, you might want to back up the whole library folder,
just to be safe.
