I am about to put a larger hard drive in my iBook. I use it for about 95% of my surfing and email so I don't want to lose settings, favorites, or existing email. It has a firewire port and I also have a desktop G3 with a large drive and a firewire port, and both are running 10.2.6.
My thinking is to copy what I want to keep to a folder on the desktop machine across the firewire connection, install the new drive in the iBook, install 10.2.6 on it, then put the "keeper" stuff back on from the desktop machine. Am I right in thinking that if I just copy the entire folder with my name on it from the "Users" folder to the desktop machine, then overwrite the same folder on my new install on the new drive, that I will have all my mail, preferences, favorites, etc?
Is there a better way? I won't have any easy way to get anything off of the old iBook drive after it's out so I want to be sure and get everything the first time. l also have a 30GB iPod if there is an advantage to using it for the temporary storage instead of the desktop G3.
No problem. Mount the iPod as a drive, use Carbon Copy Cloner to move your existing 10gb drive to it. Install the new drive, boot from the iPod, and use CCC to move everything back. No need whatsoever to partition anything.
Alternatively, buy a small firewire case for the 10GB drive, boot from it, and use CCC to move everything to the new drive. Then you have a 10 GB portable drive for whatever...
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