At 10:00 PM -0500 11/4/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > >if I just dragged files to the hard drive am I going to have >permissions problems?
No, because Finder won't work with things you don't own or already have access to. However... If you're dragging around some apps, or things outside of your user folder, then there could be problems. >What are the issues here? Finder drags creates "new" files, with inherited ownerships and permissions. That's ok for 99% of user data, if you don't mind loosing dates etc. But once in a while you'll bang up against an app that gives you grief - so it will require a reinstall (if you've installed it in your user tree). >Was considering Time Machine but my brain balked at the $300 price tag. Forget TM. It's not ripe yet. Use CCC. The new version is very nice. You tell it what folders to copy and it does it. As an incremental backup, If you check the "archive modified and deleted items" box, then instead of deleting the stale data on the backup, it moves 'em into a time-stamped folder. This is the equivalent of TM's history but without the pretty interface (you just poke in with Finder to get older stuff you need). eg: With CCC, I cloned my whole boot volume to my external. And now I've told CCC to backup /Users/dan every day at 4pm, incremental, archive. Each afternoon it yammers at me to plug in the external. I do, it does, it dismounts, it's done. I could have set that up to backup only /Users/dan/stuff or any other level, or even multiple folders. Can even schedule multiple tasks, etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
