HD Crashed - Just had a new one put in - How to get preferences from backup
Hello, My Imac 24" intel's hard drive crashed a few days ago. I just had a new HD put in and I have my old files on a backup drive - time machine was backing up my files and libraries, but not my apps.
When the tech guys restored from the external backup, it made a separate folder called Macintosh HD and in there - inside the users folder - were all of my files. I have moved them from there over to the new HD, but I am not sure if I can move the libraries? I would at least like to get the info for my mail so that I don't have to set up my email accounts over again. Is this OK to do? Also what about my fonts? Can I move that over? Any advice on what is safe to move and what shouldn't be moved would be very much appreciated.
If you are talking about moving your application support files and preference files that are in the home/library folders that won't be a problem. I did it recently for the same reason. I would not move system library files but user library files will move without problems. I did not move the whole folder but I moved the files in the folder that I needed. I moved Mail,Safari, all the files for iPhoto and iTunes, my music libraries, and some others. The only issue I had with it was that for some reason I lost my playlists on iTunes, not the music library, just the playlists. I only had about 12 of them so it was no big deal but if you have a lot, that may be an issue. I don't know what I didn't move that caused that to happen.
If you are going to do backups in the future, using Time Machine is great. I use it. However I go one step further an use a program called Super Duper and actually clone my entire drive onto an external drive, then do incremental backups with it. That way, I have a complete clone of my drive and if something happens, I can get back to work quickly. I don't know if Carbon Copy Cloner, which is a very good program also, supports incremental backups or not but if it does than either one will work.
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daffydaf2010 wrote:
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Welcome to the club
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
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