Recovering just dock from Backup
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From: Kit on 14 Jun 2010 11:36 Hi, Have screwed up my dock (10.4.11 on G5). The whole system was backed up on Friday. Is there any way I can recover just my dock from that backup? Thanks! Kit
From: Jim on 14 Jun 2010 11:44 On 2010-06-14, Kit <kitzyme(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Have screwed up my dock (10.4.11 on G5). > The whole system was backed up on Friday. > > Is there any way I can recover just my dock from that backup? You could try restoring the the files com.apple.dock.db com.apple.dock.plist in your ~/Library/Preferences folder, making a safe copy of the current ones first. Not sure this will work (and this is on a 10.6 machine) but got to be worth a try. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Pd on 14 Jun 2010 15:04 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-14, Kit <kitzyme(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Have screwed up my dock (10.4.11 on G5). > > The whole system was backed up on Friday. > > > > Is there any way I can recover just my dock from that backup? > > You could try restoring the the files > > com.apple.dock.db I think this one is just a list of applications, so the dock knows what icons to add to the dock when an app is launched. > com.apple.dock.plist > > in your ~/Library/Preferences folder, making a safe copy of the current > ones first. > > Not sure this will work (and this is on a 10.6 machine) but got to be worth > a try. I've done similar on 10.5 -- Pd
From: Rowland McDonnell on 15 Jun 2010 11:47 Kit <kitzyme(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Have screwed up my dock (10.4.11 on G5). When you say `screwed up my dock', what did you do to it and what shape's it in? > The whole system was backed up on Friday. > > Is there any way I can recover just my dock from that backup? 1) Possible; not necessarily practical for you. 2) What method of backing up did you use? The straightforward method is to extract the dock information from your backup and replace the dock information on your live user account - the exact method depends on how your backup and restore software works, but we don't know about that yet. I spy these relevant-looking files in ~/Library/Preferences/ com.apple.dock.db com.apple.dock.plist com.apple.dockfixup.plist I tend to use DragThing for app launching: <http://www.dragthing.com/english/download.html> Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Kit on 17 Jun 2010 05:14
In article <1jk4zlv.o1adnw17jsbzhN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Kit <kitzyme(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Have screwed up my dock (10.4.11 on G5). > > When you say `screwed up my dock', what did you do to it and what > shape's it in? > > > The whole system was backed up on Friday. > > > > Is there any way I can recover just my dock from that backup? > > 1) Possible; not necessarily practical for you. > > 2) What method of backing up did you use? > > The straightforward method is to extract the dock information from your > backup and replace the dock information on your live user account - the > exact method depends on how your backup and restore software works, but > we don't know about that yet. > > I spy these relevant-looking files in ~/Library/Preferences/ > > com.apple.dock.db > > com.apple.dock.plist > > com.apple.dockfixup.plist > > I tend to use DragThing for app launching: > > <http://www.dragthing.com/english/download.html> > > Rowland. Thanks for the suggestion. 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. Kit |