06.23.05
Posted in Mac OS X, computers at 8:24 pm by Haris
Continuing my story of installing all my favorite goodies in my brand new hard drive, I forgot to mention that I was very lucky with porting my mailboxes. I just backed up the folder /Library/Mail to an external hard drive, and then just copied it back up to the new system. This did not keep my account information, but once I created the accounts again, all my mail was there! Very
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Posted in Mac OS X, computers at 1:00 am by Haris
I just did the unthinkable: I opened up my iBook and changed its hard drive!
Ok, it’s not unthinkable, many people have done it before. But it certainly is not for the faint at heart. Luckily there are lots of instructions and pictures online, namely here. It went overall ok, except I think I did not put the extra memory back properly (hear that Sameer?). Anyway, I am now back to restoring my computer to the settings that I am used to, and I will document it all here, so that I have it easily accessible the next time I have to do it. I’ll skip the links, which were included in another post.
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