QUICK!!! Backup/lifeboating questions re: OS X and iMac...

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pscatespscates
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Out of the blue, I managed to sell my iMac locally today and it's going to be picked up tomorrow.







What I want is for my Mail, Address Book and Safari stuff (e-mails, contacts, bookmarks, etc.) to be saved and burn those to my backup/personal CD before I hand this thing over.



How would you guys go about this?



Should I use iSync to mirror all this info to my .mac account, then retrieve it in a few weeks when I get my PowerBook?



I know in OS 9 I could take the bookmark file and contact file and actually put them on a disk or whatever. Is that stuff easily found or extracted in OS X? Do I need to do that Control-Click thing where you show "package contents" to view and copy this stuff to a CD?



I was just casually going along, figuring I'd sell this thing someday, then BAM...it happens today and I'm honestly kinda unprepared (or wasn't planning for) a big backup/archiving session today.







I'm already burning a CD of my personal stuff (writing, projects, illustration, shareware, etc.).



It's just these little things like bookmarks and contacts that I wonder about...



Note: I realize this might be Genius Bar material, but I'll be honest: since time is kinda critical and all, I knew I'd get more responses/help if I posted it here in General Discussion. Can the mods - in the light of the situation - give me a pass just this once? I won't do it again...



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  • Reply 1 of 6
    osxaddictosxaddict Posts: 131member
    iSync will take care of address book, Safari bookmarks, iChat prefs.

    You can use Backup for the other stuff.
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  • Reply 2 of 6
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Okay, stupid question number 2 from me:



    I have a SuperDrive.



    My pscates "Documents" folder is 1.2GB (all my personal stuff, and then some).



    Is it easy to burn a backup DVD (I'll have this 1.2GB, plus another GB or so in shareware downloads and knickknacks.



    Is burning a DVD in the OS X finder as easy as popping one in, giving it a name, dragging stuff to it and choosing "Burn disk" from the menu (just like you can do with CD-R)?



    I'd rather burn one nice DVD than 2 or 3 CDs



    BTW, my 10GB of music is being lifeboated over to a friend's iBook for a couple of weeks, so no problem there.



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  • Reply 3 of 6
    osxaddictosxaddict Posts: 131member
    Do you have Toast? I hear that using Toast to burn DVD's is easy.



    Since I don't have a superdrive, I can't answer the questions about ease of burning, etc from the finder with dvd's.
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  • Reply 4 of 6
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    No, I don't have Toast.



    Just OS X (10.2.8), a 2x SuperDrive and an Apple DVD-R disk (4.7GB) that came with my iMac 18 months ago (still sealed).







    I need to burn about 3.4GB of data and can't think of a better time to give the ol' SuperDrive a try.



    Am I wrong in thinking that it can even create DVD data backups? I don't know, I've never used it.



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  • Reply 5 of 6
    osxaddictosxaddict Posts: 131member
    No, you should be able to create DVD backups. That's one of the reasons I want to get a superdrive in the G5 I eventually will get.



    This is where I think more companies ought to offer free demo's...in your case it would fit to a T.



    Since you only have one DVD-R disk, you don't want to screw it up and then go DOH! hehe...
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  • Reply 6 of 6
    digitaldavedigitaldave Posts: 445member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pscates

    Okay, stupid question number 2 from me:



    I have a SuperDrive.



    My pscates "Documents" folder is 1.2GB (all my personal stuff, and then some).



    Is it easy to burn a backup DVD (I'll have this 1.2GB, plus another GB or so in shareware downloads and knickknacks.



    Is burning a DVD in the OS X finder as easy as popping one in, giving it a name, dragging stuff to it and choosing "Burn disk" from the menu (just like you can do with CD-R)?



    I'd rather burn one nice DVD than 2 or 3 CDs



    BTW, my 10GB of music is being lifeboated over to a friend's iBook for a couple of weeks, so no problem there.







    pscates,



    That's how I burned some CD's the other day, so I assume it works exactly the same for DVD's.



    Dave.
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