You don't think the CEO of terrasoft knows how, or chooses to waste his time other ways? Just a thought.
--- "John C. Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. --Norberto Quintanar "You belong to something bigger. From birth. And your life is spent rediscovering the underlying principles, through various players -- coaches, mentors, teachers, spouses, kids. It's in your genes. Your responsibility. Destiny. Is all on you. Lead, follow, or get out of the way." --Norberto Quintanar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
