[fortepianissimo]

I plan to upgrade to Panther this weekend and have lots of stuff to backup cuz I'll do a reformat+install. I'd like to keep

1. keychains
2. old mails (in Mail.app)
3. Camino/Safari bookmarks
4. address book
5. stickies
6. iTunes music library
7. iPhoto music library

For some of them I know what to do (what to backup, i.e.), but I would like to hear what you think cuz maybe there're some hidden traps that I'm not aware of.

Thx a lot!

[vsurfer]

Originally posted by fortepianissimo:
I plan to upgrade to Panther this weekend and have lots of stuff to backup cuz I'll do a reformat+install. I'd like to keep

1. keychains
2. old mails (in Mail.app)
3. Camino/Safari bookmarks
4. address book
5. stickies
6. iTunes music library
7. iPhoto music library

For some of them I know what to do (what to backup, i.e.), but I would like to hear what you think cuz maybe there're some hidden traps that I'm not aware of.

Thx a lot!

I did a clean install. Address book was a problem for the other user who's not on my second machine.

New Panther address book couldn't use old address book file format. WTF?!
I had assumed I would be able to juts drag the old address book in -- or that it would have had a conversion utility, but it seems one way would have been to export as vcards first and them import vcards. Too late.

Well not totally too late -- I still have another machine running Jag, so i'll copy to there, into a freshly created account, export as vcards and reimport onto the first machine, but what a pain! I guess this is too late for you and maybe you've figured out isync, but this user never used isync, so no dice.

[chabig]

I did a clean install. I cloned my internal drive to an external drive. Then I did the clean install.

Then I mounted the external and opened the internal and external drives in side by side windows. I simply dragged over items from the old system that were not installed in the new system. Folders you should compare are:

Your users' home folders
/Applications
/Applications (Mac OS 9)
/Library

It's not very hard--just takes a bit of time. To avoid permissions problems if you have more than one user account, you should log in as each user when you're dealing with the home folders. For the system stuff, you can just be an admin.

When you're done, repair permissions, and you should have a new machine!

My Address book worked perfectly by the way.

[Developer]

Don't do a clean install. It's not worth the effort. Make an Archive and Install.

[chabig]

I do agree with Developer. I upgraded two machines, one with a clean install, and one with an archive and install. If you do a clean install, do it as I suggested. But the archive and install gives you all of the benefits with a lot less work.

Chris

[typoon]

Originally posted by chabig:
I do agree with Developer. I upgraded two machines, one with a clean install, and one with an archive and install. If you do a clean install, do it as I suggested. But the archive and install gives you all of the benefits with a lot less work.

Chris

Either that if you have .Mac you can use Backup and iSync to do this much simpler. Just have backup save keychain settings and mail and other docs and things then use isync for addressbook and bookmarks and iCal. That is also a less painful method if you don't do an archive/install