Mac migration
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- rafalski
I am moving my account to a new OSX installation. I know I should copy my home folder, but it's full of clutter created by many apps, a lot of which I'm not going to reinstall. I had upgraded the old installation from Tiger to Leopard (which usually leaves some leftover files) and this time would like to start as clean as I can.
What do I copy then? What about fonts (Linotype Font Explorer Managed)?
- ismith0
I always use times like this to start fresh. That means only copying over my portfolio, media (music, movies, etc), and a few folders from ~/Library/Application Support (which is where your Adobe CS swatches are, as well as Apple Pro loops, etc). Additionally, you might want to save your mailboxes (~/Library/Mail), Safari bookmarks (~/Library/Safari), and Quicktime plug-ins (~/Library/Quicktime and ~/Library/Internet Plugins).
- Basically, dump the Preferences folder but maybe save anything else in ~/Libraryismith
- rafalski0
I added a few QuickView plugins, will have to make sure I keep these.
http://www.quicklookplugins.com
- ismith0
Oh, and do remember that depending on whether you installed 'For this user only' or 'For all users on this computer', your important bits could either be in your user Library (~/Library) or your drive library (./Library)
- rafalski0
thanks ismith.. I think I'll keep the old drive as the main backup drive for some time, just in case I forget something