On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Dan Frakes wrote: > If you want to make sure you're backing up your important data, you should > always back up your personal Library folder, as well. It contains all your > preferences, as well as Safari bookmarks, email (OK, maybe not for people on > this list, but for other clients including Apple's Mail), many system > add-ons and plug-ins, your personal keychain, Widgets you've installed, and > so on. And that's not even getting to all the important stuff in > ~/Library/Application Support, which is where many apps store your settings > and even user data.
Good point. But all the stuff I'm currently concerned about resides in Documents. Settings can be recreated, etc. But lost data is pretty much lost. But don't get the wrong idea - I normally do system backups weekly. But Documents gets done more often to rotating DVDs and the most recent lives in my desk at work. > (Of course, a better approach is to just back up your entire Home directory, > as Paul mentioned; that way you don't lose ripped music, photos, movies, > etc. But some people don't want to back up their music files because it > takes a lot of space and they can always re-rip them.) Music, etc., all gets backed up separately just because of that space issue. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
