[futurebasic] Re: [FB] [OT] Application migration?

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From: Pete Beaumont <furbies@...>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:15:58 +1100
On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 06:54  AM, John McKernon wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I just bought a new aluminum G4 PowerBook to replace my aging titanium
> PowerBook, and am facing the question of how to get everything from 
> the old
> one to the new. Both are running OSX 10.3. Documents are easy - just 
> drag
> them to the new computer.
>
> Applications are much messier - does anyone know of any utilities that 
> can
> do something like copy every application in the Applications folder 
> onto the
> new computer, while automatically copying all of their related prefs 
> and
> other support files?
>
> I shudder at the thought of having to reinstall everything and then 
> upgrade
> each of them with all of the updaters that have come out in the last 
> three
> years...:(


Ha ha ha...

Just been doing that for a client. There's not easy way to move a 
folder full of apps...

Pete...

>
> TIA -
>
> - John
>
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> John McKernon
> misc@...
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