Hello, Generally speaking, CCC will truly make a clone of your drive, so all settings will be preserved. You can then boot from your machines hard drive or the bootable external drive.
Dan On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > You know, speaking of! Adium, Does anyone know how to back up your > preferences. I! Hate! having to reset all my events and event actions every! > blessid! time! I have to redo my mac, which is literally almost never, but > still. OK, fine, say down the road I get an IMac, or say a Macbook Pro. I > really don't wanna take the hour it took me last time to get things set > exactly as I now have 'em. Maybe I'm slow, but I like things to be right the > first time. LOL! > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:10 PM > Subject: RE: Just my thoughts regarding CCC Carbon Copy Cloner > > >> Thanks for this. I installed CCC a couple of weeks ago, but haven't actually >> tried to use it yet. I'm sure I'll be checking >> it out before Lion happens; am especially hoping that using something like >> CCC will preserve my app preferences for Adium and >> things of that nature. I have a little external hard drive that I just got >> for the mac. I've used it for time machine >> backups; can I use that same drive with CCCas well? I still don't understand >> everything about the mac, so will probably still >> ask stupid questions from time to time. >> Missy >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan >> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:12 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Just my thoughts regarding CCC Carbon Copy Cloner >> >> Hello List, >> JUst some thoughts on prepairing for Lion. >> I set up CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) and I really love it. It's extremely easy >> to use and it's 100% accessible for VO users. >> >> Not only is it easy to make a complete clone, or a incremental backup, it's >> also really easy to boot from and use it on the >> external drive. >> The log details are well written and easy to understand. >> Restoring the original drive is also really easy to do. >> >> CCC is produced on a shareware kind of concept and it uses a donation >> request field. This is available within CCC as well as >> on the site. >> >> http://www.bombich.com/ >> >> So, why am I posting this? >> In light of Lion's upcoming launch, I just wanted to really be prepared. No >> matter what you use as a backup utility, CCC or >> Super Duper or any other backup package, I strongly suggest that you cover >> all bases and be completely ready for the new >> exciting move to Lion! >> >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
