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how to hose your dock, finder, and app preferences....HA!
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: sunny southern california
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so i let my harddrive slip down to 80MB of free space last night. re-logged into os 10.2.4
and the dock, and app prefs i had were trashed!
i rule.... don't know how i should try to reinstall them. probably swap the library folders.... i have a backup...
bah™ i guess i'll just reset them all by hand as they annoy me for the next two weeks, as i find every little thing.
just thought i'd throw this out as a warning that no one other than my stupid self will have to keep in mind in the future. 
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Livingston NJ USA
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Dude. I just did the same thing. Corrupted many of my preffs. I am was really pissed of for a while. But, I am almost all back to normal now.
I just threw all the prefs into a folder on my desktop called oldprefs. If there is an application that is a pain in the but to set up again, I just drag it back. Unfortunately Mail.apps (what a pain, I had 5 email accounts) prefs where hosed along with finder, dock and many more....
From now on I keep a few hundred megs on my main drive.
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Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: sunny southern california
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ha ha ha WE RULE™!
i don't use mail, eudora had my 2 accounts, and 10 mailboxes intact. holy crap, that would've been nightmareish!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North Hollywood, CA
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
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Originally posted by Adam Betts:
indeed 
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Madison, WI
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You know, only people who constantly Download stuff have this happen... if you would curb your habbit you would fare better.
-Owl
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: sunny southern california
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Originally posted by OwlBoy:
You know, only people who constantly Download stuff have this happen... if you would curb your habbit you would fare better.
-Owl
or people who generate huge data sets, molecular modelling... i.e. me.....
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Boston, MA
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How hard is it nowadays to keep at least 500 megs of free space available at all times?
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London, UK
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Well, if you only have a small HDD then it is quite hard, especially with each update to the Mac OS taking up more and more space, yet alone anything else!
I was shocked to see my hard drive down to 100MB a few weeks ago... And X obviously doesn't like not having much free room as it slowed down to a near halt... luckily I could delete a whole bunch of old files I didnt need, and so I am now back up to 2GB free!
*phew*
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