On 3/17/06 15:14, "Kai Staats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... I guess that was my point, that I do not know how to back up my home dir > in OSX _and_ all the app preferences and actually have it work. It takes > hours and a lot of tinkering, but in Linux I simply archive one directory and > it just works. This breaks down only when the individual apps, such as KDE, > have changed between their own versions such that prefs no longer match. We > (as the OS developer), have no control over this and the KDE guys seem to do > this for the fun of it, just to make things interesting :)
For homedirs Dump it to a disk image/CD, then copy it back, overwrite everything. The biggest problems happen if your new UID is different from your old UID. But chown -R fixes that. For /Library, the best way is a clean install that preserves user and network settings. There's *maybe* a handful of things that won't get put correctly for you, and they'll be sitting in the same relative place in the /Previous Systems/ directory. For /System, leave it the heck alone. If you had kext's in there, just reinstall from source media. -- John C. Welch Writer/Analyst Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
