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After 15 years with a PC I am switching to a mac but still going to keep the sony vaio handy as i go through this process.
I bought the powerbook used with quite a number of programs installed that the previous owner left on. It is my understanding that unlike a pc, when a program is installed on a mac enviornment that all the files go into one folder as opposed to all over the freakin place like a pc.
I want to back up the programs just incase of a hard drive or OS disaster, call it the "blue screen of death" fobia being used to windows. neye:
Is a backup on a mac that simple - just copy the folder to a cd or external HD for future need or is there another way to do it?
Thanks for any help to a mac newbie, but not a technology newbie.
Phil
I bought the powerbook used with quite a number of programs installed that the previous owner left on. It is my understanding that unlike a pc, when a program is installed on a mac enviornment that all the files go into one folder as opposed to all over the freakin place like a pc.
I want to back up the programs just incase of a hard drive or OS disaster, call it the "blue screen of death" fobia being used to windows. neye:
Is a backup on a mac that simple - just copy the folder to a cd or external HD for future need or is there another way to do it?
Thanks for any help to a mac newbie, but not a technology newbie.
Phil