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I am contemplating upgrading to Leopard. According to all my reading the erase and install option seems to be the best. I am fairly new to the MAC (1.5 years) and I would like to gain a little more knowledge on the procedure.
I will be buying an external hard drive so a backup will not be a problem, I guess my basic questions are:
1. What backup utility or software is most commonly used to backup the main drive? Is the entire drive being backed up or just select files (which ones?)
2. Once the backup is done and the erase and install is performed, how are applications migrated back over to the "new" install? I have some shareware and software downloaded from third party vendors for which I do not have any install disks (they were downloaded, disk images trashed) For example, I use Thunderbird as my email client. By migrating the application to the "new" system does this also bring over all my stored email addresses, saved messages, email protocol settings?
Any advice or help would be appreciated!
I will be buying an external hard drive so a backup will not be a problem, I guess my basic questions are:
1. What backup utility or software is most commonly used to backup the main drive? Is the entire drive being backed up or just select files (which ones?)
2. Once the backup is done and the erase and install is performed, how are applications migrated back over to the "new" install? I have some shareware and software downloaded from third party vendors for which I do not have any install disks (they were downloaded, disk images trashed) For example, I use Thunderbird as my email client. By migrating the application to the "new" system does this also bring over all my stored email addresses, saved messages, email protocol settings?
Any advice or help would be appreciated!
