Recovering just dock from Backup
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From: Pd on 17 Jun 2010 05:18 Kit <kitzyme(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > As Time Machine isn't available for me I use Carbon Copy Cloner and > (almost) every Friday evening I do a complete backup of my main boot > drive. (I make backup copies of important docs & folders onto a a > non-boot drive every time I update them). > > Anyway, I went looking in ~/Library/Preferences/ for those files. > Can't find com.apple.dock.db > > So I've decided to bite the bullet: boot from the backup disk, take > snapshots of the dock and contents, reboot from main disk, rebuild my > dock manually to be the same as my backup. I'm pretty sure the only one you need is com.apple.dock.plist, so you could boot from your backup, copy that one file back onto your main disk, then reboot from your main disk. If it doesn't work, then you can go to Plan B above. -- Pd
From: Jim on 17 Jun 2010 05:28
On 2010-06-17, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Kit <kitzyme(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> As Time Machine isn't available for me I use Carbon Copy Cloner and >> (almost) every Friday evening I do a complete backup of my main boot >> drive. (I make backup copies of important docs & folders onto a a >> non-boot drive every time I update them). >> >> Anyway, I went looking in ~/Library/Preferences/ for those files. >> Can't find com.apple.dock.db >> >> So I've decided to bite the bullet: boot from the backup disk, take >> snapshots of the dock and contents, reboot from main disk, rebuild my >> dock manually to be the same as my backup. > > I'm pretty sure the only one you need is com.apple.dock.plist, so you > could boot from your backup, copy that one file back onto your main > disk, then reboot from your main disk. If it doesn't work, then you can > go to Plan B above. I second this advice. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett |