I've recently installed a new hard drive in my Powerbook G4 and in so doing installed OS X on the new drive. I'm now in the process of copying over various preference and support files from old drive (which was also running X). In the old days of MacOS, I got pretty familiar with where to put files in the System Folder and which files needed to be copied when I reinstalled or upgraded my system.
I haven't yet arrived at same level of comfort with X, so, I have a few questions for those more knowledgeable than me. Many, if not all, application "preference" type files seem to be found in the system's "Library" folder(s). On my newly installed OS X 10.2.3 I have two Library folders -- one in the root directory of my hard drive and another in my user directory. Each user account has its own Library folder, each Library folder has its own "Application Support" and "Preferences" folders (and a lot of other system-type folders). My questions are: How does OS X keep track of which Library folder or subfolder a particular support file is in? Does it look first in the root-directory Library folder, then in the current user's Library folder? Does it matter which one it goes in? Do you know of any especially good web sites or tutorials on this subject that I might look at? Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
