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please ignore! i put this in the wrong forum...
hi everyone,
i'm new here, and i've been searching the forums but can't seem to get exactly what i need-- that is, if i do indeed know what i need...
i have an ibook g4 crammed full of stuff and running slow. i backed up all my info on an external hard drive, then did an erase and reinstall with leopard. then went to the genius bar and got yawned at for 15 minutes while i asked for help about how to move my info back onto my nice clean computer.
basically, i started moving info from my external hd onto my internal hd, instead of into my home folder. i'm thinking i've completely screwed it up and should just do the erase/install again, but i have some questions:
1. should i erase my hard drive through disk utility, or through leopard's erase and install prompt?
2. how do you know what backed-up items on the ext hd aren't really needed (in order to save space)?
3. can i just drag and drop my backed-up home folder to my new home folder, or do i have to do each folder's contents one by one?
i'm sure these are veeeeery simplistic questions (as evidenced by the sleepy genius) but if someone could walk me through this like i'm a 5 year old, i would greatly appreciate it!
hi everyone,
i'm new here, and i've been searching the forums but can't seem to get exactly what i need-- that is, if i do indeed know what i need...
i have an ibook g4 crammed full of stuff and running slow. i backed up all my info on an external hard drive, then did an erase and reinstall with leopard. then went to the genius bar and got yawned at for 15 minutes while i asked for help about how to move my info back onto my nice clean computer.
basically, i started moving info from my external hd onto my internal hd, instead of into my home folder. i'm thinking i've completely screwed it up and should just do the erase/install again, but i have some questions:
1. should i erase my hard drive through disk utility, or through leopard's erase and install prompt?
2. how do you know what backed-up items on the ext hd aren't really needed (in order to save space)?
3. can i just drag and drop my backed-up home folder to my new home folder, or do i have to do each folder's contents one by one?
i'm sure these are veeeeery simplistic questions (as evidenced by the sleepy genius) but if someone could walk me through this like i'm a 5 year old, i would greatly appreciate it!