On 9/5/01 8:28 AM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got a new Ibook :-), and thanks to people here for guiding me to
> resources from which I made the decision to get it. I *think* I'm planning
> to transfer things from the old to the new by reinstalling instead of just
> copying *everything* over. For Office, am I right that if I install Office
> on the new computer, run SR1, and then replace the Microsoft Users Data
> folder it will create with a copy of the one on the old computer, and ditto
> for the templates folder, I'll now have my data and everything will be
> properly installed? I'm really only concerned with Entourage information
> (the main thing of course), and Word and Excel customizing. I realize that
> an alternative would be to copy the entire System folder and Microsoft
> Folder from the old computer to the new. I just thought that sort of like
> moving from one house to another, moving to the new computer would force me
> to throw out some stuff I don't use and reorganize what I do! But if I've
> missed something in the "reinstall and customize" approach that makes a
> "copy everything and maybe eventually do some cleaning up" approach better,
> I would certainly appreciate knowing about that before I mess something up!
>
Your original plan is the correct one. DON'T copy a system folder to another
computer. Copying the MUD folder and Word Templates is the thing to do. I
suppose copying a few Preference files wouldn't do much harm - you can
always just throw them away if they do something funny.
> Also, I haven't yet upgraded to OS 9.2.1 and thought I should probably do
> that on both machines. Has anyone had any horrendous experiences with that
> suggesting that at least one machine should stay with OS 9.1 for awhile?
> :-).
9.2.1 is fine, although every once in a while (like now) I get this
incredible slowdown (1 character per second!), usually after sleep, which a
reboot fixes. They must still be having problems with CarbonLib, I think.
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Paul Berkowitz
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