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Record preference settings for easier future rebuilds
Authored by: PCheese on Dec 28, '04 04:37:24PM

Or even just making a backup copy of the Preferences folder in your Library folder...
Mine is about 20MB, and it saves preferences for every application I have. It takes less than ten seconds to open your home folder, open the Library folder, select the Preferences folder, and hit command-d. Now imagine the time and disk space it would take to make thousands of screenshots for all your applications...



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Record preference settings for easier future rebuilds
Authored by: Norm Nager on Dec 28, '04 08:05:50PM

The problem in copying over ALL preferences, especially when the time comes to erase and do a clean install, is that the preferences folder may contain corrupted preferences.



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