On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
--- On Mon, 1/25/10, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>
Subject: New system, but can you save the old bookmarks and Cookies?
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 3:38 PM
Upgrade is what you do from a lower system version to
a higher system version, for example you upgrade from any
Jaguar version to any Panther version. Upgrade installs
generally preserve system settings. Archive install is when
you're downgrading an installation, No.
An upgrade installs the new system files over the old ones.
An Archive and Install creates a new system, then moves the
old user data and files to it. it works perfectly well in an
either direction. This is my preferred method of upgrading a system.
In 10.6, this is the only way, although of course Apple
chooses to confuse the issue by calling it 'Upgrade'.--Bruce Johnson
Nice discussion but not the issue - what I am trying to do is like
upgrading a G4 to a G5 or some other change in the Mboard that is
questionable and so I do need to manually find the cookies and
bookmarks and preserve them, then completley wipe the hd removing
the exhisting partitions that were on it. I can not archive and
install upgrade or downgrade - so where are these files and what is
the likely names of them. Thanks.
JML
In that case, use Migration Assistant (in /Application/Utilities) You
can copy all your files and settings over to the new Mac over
firewire this way. \o/
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