Limited schedule
Trying to migrate from my old iMac to my new one without doing a full copy is turning out to be not that easy. So, I probably won’t be posting as much over the next day or so while I spend my free time trying to make things work the way they need to work.
Sigh. Why can’t this be easy? Why do apps, in addition to the .app folder in OSX stash stuff in 4 or more different locations? Top level prefs and app support and user level prefs and app support? Couldn’t there just be a top level folder and a user level one? And all prefs and app support goes in there? Sigh.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Heh, well not all programs stash stuff in all 4 places. It’s usually either/or. Either it puts stuff on the top lib or in the user lib. And usually they’re under the user lib. And I believe you don’t really need to move the stuff from the Application Support folder over as the app will just recreate what it needs when you first run it if it doesn’t find it in there.
Besides, there is “just a top level folder and user level one.” It’s the Library folder. ;-p Some people just like to be more organized and keep their prefs in its own folder and App Support in another.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
you need a pet howie.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Yeah, they stash stuff in any of those 4 places, and some of them put files elsewhere, too. And you bring them all over and it still doesn’t work. I’m not naming names, but it sucks. I’m just complaining, It’s a totally reasonable way to do things.
As for a pet howie, he’s all grown up and flown to spain. That jerk.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I’ve never used the Migration Assistant in the ~/Applications/Utilities folder. How well does that work?
August 31st, 2007 at 9:48 am
Heh, well I’m sure it works fine for most people most of the time, but for this person this time it sucked. Heh, posted a little more on it just now:
http://comments.deasil.com/2007/08/31/apple-24-imac/