01-21-2006, 07:23 PM

hey guys,
I can hear my powerbook hard drive failing with my osx. I need to know how to backup bookmarks.

I have gotten the basics. music, movies, documents.
anything else I might be missing?

01-22-2006, 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by skatesurferdude

hey guys,
I can hear my powerbook hard drive failing with my osx. I need to know how to backup bookmarks.

I have gotten the basics. music, movies, documents.
anything else I might be missing?

I think the best way for the bookmarks is to go to whatever browser you are using and export your bookmarks as a file and then back it up (or copy it) normally with the other files.

01-22-2006, 04:09 AM

If you have time and space, you could try using an App like Carbon Copy Cloner to copy your entire drive and them just copy it back to the new drive you get. That way everything would be the same on the new drive. If it doesn't work, you have not lost much but if it does, you saved everything.

01-27-2006, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by baggss

If you have time and space, you could try using an App like Carbon Copy Cloner to copy your entire drive and them just copy it back to the new drive you get. That way everything would be the same on the new drive. If it doesn't work, you have not lost much but if it does, you saved everything.

when I tried a program like this halfway it fails becuase it cant read the failing hard drive. I can only do it by hand. copy and paste.

01-30-2006, 01:35 AM

Copy your Application Support and Preference files from User/Library. For your bookmarks, there should be a Safari folder loose in your user Library that contains "Bookmarks.plist" (assuming of course that the browser you're using is Safari...).