copying library is not sufficient and it is over kill at any rate.
copy the files you need as described below.
On Oct 28, 2007, at 5:51 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
So in this case the Library folder is more important than my User
folder. Do I not need the User folder then?
On Oct 28, 2007, at 5:37 PM, yvonne thomson wrote:
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.
