Jerry, thank you for your response, I think I have restored most of my main
files, but my
address book must have it's files tucked away where I can't find them. Can
anyone tell me
where they might be hiding?
Thanks,
Bill Micou
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Yeager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 03:00:08 -0400
Subject: Re: MacGroup: life after a crash
> Hello Bill,
>
> Most of these can be handled, one at a time, by dragging them from the
> Previous Systems folder to the current folder. (This is generalized
> advice). I am saying one at a time, because some of these (in the cases
> you have listed) will replace the new files and some will be "new"
> things that your system re-install did not copy over for you.
>
> Mostly you can get by with the drag and drop approach, but you might be
> told that you do not have permissions to replace certain files. At that
> point simply enter your admin password and it will complete the
> operation. For completeness sake, run the Disk Utility's Repair
> Permissions after you are completely finished.
>
> Note that you will need to copy the folders that the data actually
> reside in to their new locations, not just what appears to be the main
> folder, iTunes for example does not keeps its music files inside ofthe
> iTunes app folder.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> :loss: /n./ Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in
> which something is losing. Emphatic forms include `moby loss',
> and `total loss', `complete loss'. Common interjections are
> "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!" Note that `moby
> loss' is OK even though **`moby loser' is not used; applied to an
> abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier, whereas when applied to
> a person it implies substance and has positive connotations.
> Compare {lossage}.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On May 12, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Bill Micou wrote:
>
> > Hello Group-
> >
> > I have a G4 Powerbook with 550 MHz/ 256 MB, running 10.3.3. It was
> > getting stuck during the
> > start-up. It would go from the grey pinwheel to the blue screen with
> > the colored pinwheel, but
> > would not proceed pass the 'starting windows login' process.
> > AppleCare helped me try to solve
> > the problem but finally told me to re-install the OS, but to make the
> > choice where I would save
> > all my old files. He advised me that I would lose all my personal
> > settings, but not the programs,
> > etc. (He concluded that I must have had a corrupted file somewhere
> in
> > the start-up)
> >
> > Everything that I had on the old system is now in a folder called
> > "previous system". My
> > questions to all ye who know this stuff so much better than me is ...
> > In ITune, do I import the song library from the 'old system' to the
> > new; if I do, then do I delete
> > all the songs in the old.
> > In IPhoto, if I import all the pics from the old to the new, won't I
> > have double the pics? Do I
> > delete the old system Iphoto after I put them in the new?
> > Address book- I haven't touched it yet. Isn't there a way to just
> use
> > the old file and treat it as
> > new?
> >
> > There's probably a very simple answer to this. If I keep on
> rambling,
> > I'll stumble on it, but I
> > won't recognize it.
> >
> > As always, I greatly appreciate the help this group always provides.
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Micou
> >
> >
> >
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> I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.
>
>
>
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