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From: John on 16 Jun 2010 19:14
When my new iMac arrives, will I be able to specify that I only want
the settings for eMail, Safari, Network and Address Book to be
transferred from Time Machine. Or will I have to hunt for them, then
drag them over.

Regards

John

From: Woody on 17 Jun 2010 04:25
John <coffee(a)the.cafe.com> wrote:
> When my new iMac arrives, will I be able to specify that I only want
> the settings for eMail, Safari, Network and Address Book to be
> transferred from Time Machine. Or will I have to hunt for them, then
> drag them over.
>

It is a while since I have done this but the options I remember is a
clean install or install from time machine. I have done the install from
time machine and don't remember having that level of control over it.

Therre is settings import thing to transfer your settings from another
machine, but I doubt that covers time machine.

However having rebuilt my computer quite a bit from time machine when it
had a dodgy disk, importing the settings should be fairly easy.
Most of the things you need are In ~/Library/Preferences, although you
will also need ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Application
Support/AddressBook too


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Woody
From: John on 17 Jun 2010 12:11
On 2010-06-17 09:42:45 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:

> But why bother? Just use the Migration Assistant to pull in everything
> from the old Mac and it'll Just Work(*).
> OSX isn't susceptible to cruft buildup like Windows, leftover config
> files and such just sit their inactive on the disk rather than slowing
> everything doooooown.

Your right, I'm going to do the above.

Thanks Lads

John

From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 17 Jun 2010 13:43
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:11:17 +0100, John <coffee(a)the.cafe.com> wrote:

>On 2010-06-17 09:42:45 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>
>> But why bother? Just use the Migration Assistant to pull in everything
>> from the old Mac and it'll Just Work(*).
>> OSX isn't susceptible to cruft buildup like Windows, leftover config
>> files and such just sit their inactive on the disk rather than slowing
>> everything doooooown.
>
>Your right, I'm going to do the above.

Gawd - whatever you do, don't misuse 'their' for 'there', mind!

Cheers - Jaimie
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