Hi Travis. I would sync the iBook with what's on the iPod, then erase the iPod and use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy your iBook drive to the iPod. Once you installed your new drive, boot from the iPod, format (erase) your new disk, and use CCC to copy everything from the iPod to the new drive. Once you're finished with all this, sync the iPod with iTunes on your new disk and everything should be back the way it was without having to reinstall OS X or any other software. Also, this is much less confusing than trying to remember where everything goes, if that's even possible (it's not for me!). If this is not clear, email me off line and I'll explain further. Good luck. John On Friday, August 08, 2003, at 06:50AM, Travis Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am about to put a larger hard drive in my iBook. I use it for about >95% of my surfing and email so I don't want to lose settings, >favorites, or existing email. It has a firewire port and I also have a >desktop G3 with a large drive and a firewire port, and both are running >10.2.6. > >My thinking is to copy what I want to keep to a folder on the desktop >machine across the firewire connection, install the new drive in the >iBook, install 10.2.6 on it, then put the "keeper" stuff back on from >the desktop machine. Am I right in thinking that if I just copy the >entire folder with my name on it from the "Users" folder to the desktop >machine, then overwrite the same folder on my new install on the new >drive, that I will have all my mail, preferences, favorites, etc? > >Is there a better way? I won't have any easy way to get anything off of >the old iBook drive after it's out so I want to be sure and get >everything the first time. l also have a 30GB iPod if there is an >advantage to using it for the temporary storage instead of the desktop >G3. > >The iBook presently has a 10GB drive and I am installing a 40GB. My >plan was to partition it 10/30 and install the OS and any apps to the >10GB partition and save the 30GB partition for data---mostly iTunes >library. Any better ideas? > >Thanks, > >Travis -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
