On Jan 19, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Pete Beaumont wrote:

>> 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?

Short answer. No, but that could be my ignorance.

You could connect an external drive to the old laptop and do a Carbon 
Copy Clone of it to the external drive and then boot the new laptop 
from the external drive and do a CCC to your internal drive on the new 
laptop. Of course, you'd want to take all the usual precautions.

I was trying to think of a way to use an ethernet crossover cable to 
just connect the two computers and do this ,but it gets messy fast. I 
was think of using CCC to selectively copy folders instead of doing 
everything.  No guarantees from the management. I haven't tried to use 
CCC selectively but it should be possible. This assumes you know which 
folders to copy that are related to your applications. Hmmm.

Brian