Hi all, My Mac at work is having some serious issues, I am going to have to reformat my hard drive. The problem is I need to be able to backup my preferences and email data.
I'm mainly concerned about my email but I also need some application preferences backed up, the original CDs for them are somewhere here, that's all I know. The person who would have known has quit and everything else is still in boxes after the company move. It could take me weeks to find themI think I have a couple of hours before it completely dies, I have to finish backing up, if it lets me. It keeps crashing and turning my CDs into coasters. :|I think I have a couple of hours before it completely dies, I have to finish backing up, if it lets me. It keeps crashing and turning my CDs into coasters. :| but I need to be able to use them. These applications are Dreamweaver, Toast, Photoshop, Quark, and Microsoft Office. Can I just copy the program files onto CDs then drag them back once I've reformatted or do I need to copy any preference panels to make them work? For my email is the Microsoft User Data file all I need to back up? I'm getting concerned because I think its going to crash hard any time now, I've crashed several times today and the last time I had to boot up with Disk Warrior after finding myself with the flashing Folder/Mac Face icon when I rebooted. I keep getting lots of nasty errors with Disk First Aid and Disk Warrior and I constantly get Memory errors, running out of memory, not enough memory to perfor an operation even when there is more than enough RAM allocated. It also keeps crashing while I'm trying to back everything up, thankfully I back up regularly so there isn't all that much to do but I'm making one CD into a coaster for every successful back-up CD I burn. Any backing up advice would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Kelly Duffy ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk
