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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: deleted_user18 on May 30, '05 10:28:11AM

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?



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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: greed on May 30, '05 11:17:47AM

...and well-formed applications will put their system-specific preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost.

The filename convention is the same as for regular preferences, but the en0 MAC address is placed before the ".plist" in the name, like so:

com.apple.windowserver.000d93b2112c.plist

As a frequent-iBook-Logic-Board-Replacer, I've gotten really good at swapping the files around when en0 gets a new MAC every 3 or 4 months.



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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: deleted_user18 on May 30, '05 04:30:14PM

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.



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Recover some hard drive space via pdisk
Authored by: gvitale on May 31, '05 04:18:20AM

You're happy now?



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