PowerPC :: Removing Data?
Jun 18, 2007
I am not very techie so please accept apologies for a naive question.
I am getting delivery of my new macbook pro today. I have already received advice on how to transfer all my software and data over (thanks). Once done I will be selling my Powerbook.
Is it ok just to remove my personal data? Or do i need to do a complete reinstall?
If i need to do a complete reinstall i have a question. I cant remember where ive put my original discs but ive bought some which are original panther install to a powerbook. My powerbook runs on Tiger (ibought the upgrade discs last year but have put them with the originals no idea where!!). So do i just put in the powerbook install discs that i have just bought which will be for panther or can i just remove my data?
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Apr 20, 2009
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Having read other posts I've now tried trashing the following folders:
USERNAME/Library/Application Support/iCal/
and
USERNAME/Library/Caches/Metadata/iCal/
and
USERNAME/Library/Caches/Metadata/com.apple.iCal/
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After deleting the above folders and reopening iCal I'm presented with just two calendars ("Home" and "Work") but after around 10 seconds all my old calendars pop up again!
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I had been making regular backups of my drive using carbon copy cloner, but the last time I did it was about 2 months ago. Not devastating, but ideally I'd like to get most recent stuff back as well.
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Nov 2, 2009
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OR, are there any other suggestions on a good setup with the 2 new HDs?
I'm open to suggestions.
I always back-up on external HDs, so, is their a need for me to worry about setting up a RAID0?
I'm doing video processing for DVD release.
Should I just max out the 2x1T gig HDs and not worry about a HD failure?
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