Dragging folders from external drive

Question

Hi
Can anyone help I have installed system X and updated it to 10.4.10 I also have my old system saved on an external drive and would like to know which files I can drag across, such as my photos in iPhoto, my tunes in iTunes and all book marks from Safari and so on?
Thanks
George

Answer 1

Hi George,
Here is a list of where your important data is stored ("~" stands for "Home") You can drag these across and you'll be pretty much set up:
Your data in ~/Documents
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Application Support/iCal(copy the whole folder)
Also in ~/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need)
~ /Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist *This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.
~ /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Application Support/Safari (copy the whole folder)
~/Library/Application Support/iMovie (copy the whole folder)
~/Pictures/iPhoto library
~/Music/iTunes
~/Movies/iMovie
If you want cookies:
~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Webfoundation/HTTPcookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in Documents/Microsoft user data
Also in ~ /Library/Preferences/Microsoft
internet explorer favorites are in ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/favorites.html
-mj
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*EDIT:" Most of the list got lost due to a formatting problem here. I'm going to try to reformat it and post later*
Message was edited by: macjack
Message was edited by: macjack