Return of the Mac...or to the Mac...however you want to look at it.
Ok, so I have a freshly installed version of Tiger and have restored *most* of my data. Music, movies, documents and all that. most of the stuff I have left to copy back is all stuff from the libraries. I discovered that I had backed up a few things twice which caused a bit of a headache sorting out which version was which but I would rather have 2 or 3 backups of something than none at all. I had forgotten to go through and save backup databases for my Address Book and iCal and feared that I had lost them but all is well and not a single contact, calendar event, or email lost. My notifications are still even in tact. I now have a specific folder for my PIM Backup. I might make an automator workflow to save backups for those now that I think about it.
I copied over some of my preferences but .plist files are funny things. I've run into a few issues with certain apps acting funny so I trashed the culprit preferences and started over. I'm still having issues with Quicksilver unfortunately. I have come to rely very heavily upon Quicksilver and not having it work properly has made me realize just how much. I'd grown accustomed to just hitting option + space and then typing a few letters to get to anything I wanted and I had at least 6 or 7 launching shortcuts. Some examples (partly to show you and partly to remind myself later when I can get it to work again):
I've trashed the prefs for it as well but I'm still getting strange behavior. For some reason, I cannot get YMail to login to Yahoo to check my mail. Major pain in the ass because that's become the only way I ever check my Yahoo mail.
I've run through the SuperDuper! clone a couple of times and booted from the backup just to make sure. I have to say that is awesome. Since this is on the same disk that I work from for video projects, I'll always have a bootable copy of my own system right there with me. The notion that I could turn any Mac at school into my own personal system but 10 times faster is very nice. :-) But I'm sure the network admins would notice and shut me down real quick though...somehow, they would find out. But it would still be cool.
I will probably have to reinstall some things like, FCP, Adobe CS 2, After Effects and all that. During the backup I finally took the initiative to burn all my downloaded software onto two DVD's. Previously, I was keeping all my software disk images in a single folder on the external drive--foolish! So now I actually have permanent backups. I did loose almost everything I had on my iPod though. Not because the disk had an error but because something locked up the computer in the middle of the transfer. I did something else after I rebooted, and couple of hours later I saw the stuff on the iPod and went, "oh, I've already copied that. Now I can delete it." like a dumb-ass--and in my usual all-to-quick trigger finger form, I hit command + delete then command + shift + delete. What is the point of the safety net of a trash can or recycle bin if your dumb ass doesn't use it? So yeah. I'm a dumb-ass. Aside from that, everything is fine. Its running great. Oh, and whatever the problem with Ymail was, it's working now as well. (I wrote this over a couple of days....I'm lazy.)
I copied over some of my preferences but .plist files are funny things. I've run into a few issues with certain apps acting funny so I trashed the culprit preferences and started over. I'm still having issues with Quicksilver unfortunately. I have come to rely very heavily upon Quicksilver and not having it work properly has made me realize just how much. I'd grown accustomed to just hitting option + space and then typing a few letters to get to anything I wanted and I had at least 6 or 7 launching shortcuts. Some examples (partly to show you and partly to remind myself later when I can get it to work again):
- option + S to launch Safari
- option + F to launch Firefox
- option + T to launch Transmit
- option + M to launch iTunes
- option + A to launch Address Book
- option + C to launch iChat
- option + K to open the keyboard viewer
- command + Esc to activate Front Row
I've trashed the prefs for it as well but I'm still getting strange behavior. For some reason, I cannot get YMail to login to Yahoo to check my mail. Major pain in the ass because that's become the only way I ever check my Yahoo mail.
I've run through the SuperDuper! clone a couple of times and booted from the backup just to make sure. I have to say that is awesome. Since this is on the same disk that I work from for video projects, I'll always have a bootable copy of my own system right there with me. The notion that I could turn any Mac at school into my own personal system but 10 times faster is very nice. :-) But I'm sure the network admins would notice and shut me down real quick though...somehow, they would find out. But it would still be cool.
I will probably have to reinstall some things like, FCP, Adobe CS 2, After Effects and all that. During the backup I finally took the initiative to burn all my downloaded software onto two DVD's. Previously, I was keeping all my software disk images in a single folder on the external drive--foolish! So now I actually have permanent backups. I did loose almost everything I had on my iPod though. Not because the disk had an error but because something locked up the computer in the middle of the transfer. I did something else after I rebooted, and couple of hours later I saw the stuff on the iPod and went, "oh, I've already copied that. Now I can delete it." like a dumb-ass--and in my usual all-to-quick trigger finger form, I hit command + delete then command + shift + delete. What is the point of the safety net of a trash can or recycle bin if your dumb ass doesn't use it? So yeah. I'm a dumb-ass. Aside from that, everything is fine. Its running great. Oh, and whatever the problem with Ymail was, it's working now as well. (I wrote this over a couple of days....I'm lazy.)