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move iCal data?
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Jan 7, 2006, 06:50 PM
 
Hi All,

Due to a repeating kernal panic problem, I've had to CarbonCopy my entire boot drive to another drive, wipe the boot drive and reinstall OSX to my original boot drive.

For several reasons (the above description is the short version!) I've installed a vanilla copy of Tiger on my boot drive and I'm in the process of manually moving select bits of data from the CarbonCopy'ed backup.

What I'm having trouble with at the moment is finding and moving the necessary iCal and Address Book info, can anyone give me some hints as to where the relevant bits are? (and yes, I've looked around and what I've found in user:Library:Caches:Metadata:iCal is three folders with quite long alpha-numeric titles. Are these what I want to move? They look temporary to me, being in the Cache and all...)

Thanks in advance for any help,

Chas
(Last edited by chasg; Jan 7, 2006 at 07:07 PM. (Reason:fix typos))
     
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Jan 8, 2006, 02:37 AM
 
For iCal:

~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources/

You will want to delete every folder in there on your new installation and then move the folders from that location on your old installation to the new installation.

For Address Book:

~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/

Just copy/paste/replace every file in that directory from your old installation to your new one.
     
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Jan 8, 2006, 07:17 AM
 
Many thanks, just the advice I was looking for.

Chas
     
   
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