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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
How often do your format your sytem poartition? I did this only once in four years.
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Not true, sorry...
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
In your home folder is at least your ~/Library/Preferences/ folder. Files in there have settings depending of the software version and your system configuration. For example: A software stores the screen position of your software, on a different Mac you have a smaller resolution. It now depends on the application if it can deal with the situation and switch to standard window postions or just crash... Yo get the picture?
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
...and well-formed applications will put their system-specific preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost.
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Oh thanks for the information. This is new to me, I always wondered what ByHost directories meant. So in theory there is a way to do a clean swap.
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
You're happy now?
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Yup. It's quite easy. We're talking about a single symbolic link.
Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Wow, you and gvitale are really arguing here. (I say as I throw in my $0.02, oh well.) |
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