Soldato
I've had my mac now for 2 months now, and now I've found my feet with it, I'd like to reformat and start again from scratch.
A number of reasons....one being that during this 2 months I've installed and uninstalled many bits of software trying to find versions etc that I like and can be comfortable with. I've tweaked and tinkered etc, and despite the claim that to uninstall software you just delete the stuff from the Applications folder (Ive got software thats left stuff behind etc, even when using AppZapper).
Secondly, and this may seem trivial, but its annoying the hell out of me.
When I first started up the mac, it asked me for a username. "Oh" i thought, "It'll just be for internal purposes like Linux", so I put it in lowercase.
Now looking through all my folders, they start with a capital, except my home which is in lowercase.
Changing it is possible, but its a lot of fannying around, and I want to start afresh.
Anyway, my question is, what do I need to backup?
I had a list of things in Windows that I used to do.
All my music is on external so I can recreate the itunes library
All my pics are on external so same with iphoto.
Here's what I have so far, anything else I may have forgotten?
Address Book : Contents
Mail : Mails, Accounts + Preferences
Transmit : Bookmarks + Preferences
Firefox : Bookmarks
Transmission : Preferences
1Password : Contents
Adobe Lightroom : Metadata and Export Presets
Adobe Photoshop CS3 : Preferences
Adobe Bridge CS3 : Metadata Presets + Preferences
Colloquy : Server details
ImageIngesterPro : Preferences
VMWare Fusion : Virtual Machines
A number of reasons....one being that during this 2 months I've installed and uninstalled many bits of software trying to find versions etc that I like and can be comfortable with. I've tweaked and tinkered etc, and despite the claim that to uninstall software you just delete the stuff from the Applications folder (Ive got software thats left stuff behind etc, even when using AppZapper).
Secondly, and this may seem trivial, but its annoying the hell out of me.
When I first started up the mac, it asked me for a username. "Oh" i thought, "It'll just be for internal purposes like Linux", so I put it in lowercase.
Now looking through all my folders, they start with a capital, except my home which is in lowercase.
Changing it is possible, but its a lot of fannying around, and I want to start afresh.
Anyway, my question is, what do I need to backup?
I had a list of things in Windows that I used to do.
All my music is on external so I can recreate the itunes library
All my pics are on external so same with iphoto.
Here's what I have so far, anything else I may have forgotten?
Address Book : Contents
Mail : Mails, Accounts + Preferences
Transmit : Bookmarks + Preferences
Firefox : Bookmarks
Transmission : Preferences
1Password : Contents
Adobe Lightroom : Metadata and Export Presets
Adobe Photoshop CS3 : Preferences
Adobe Bridge CS3 : Metadata Presets + Preferences
Colloquy : Server details
ImageIngesterPro : Preferences
VMWare Fusion : Virtual Machines