HOW to backup mac apps DATA?

They're all located in the user Library folder.

Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library (username is actually the Home folder)

Just copy that Library folder in an external location and it's backed up.

If you're backing up, why not just copy the entire Home folder. All your data is contained therein, unless you've been a naughty boy and saved your files outside of that home folder. That's all you need to backup completely. Everything else (i.e. the OS and Applications) can easily restored without backups.

It's that simple.

 

how large would that folder usually be if all i usually do is surf and bookmark, chat using adium, etc? would my iphoto files be updated, as well?

 

Hello orj78. I have a 40GB hard drive and I do pretty much the same things as you do. My iPhoto files are around 12GB.

My home folder is around 2.75 GB.

Hope this helps....

 

Select the Home folder by single clicking it. From the File menu, select Get Info (keyboard shortcut: Apple + i). That will tell you how large the folder is.

 

Actually, your contact list is stored at the server, not in your computer. For example, if you login to Yahoo Messenger using a computer in an Internet cafe, you'll find all your contacts present. What you won't get though is the full name of the contact. That's what's stored in your computer.

 

if it may help, download the deja'vu freeware and get an external drive. you can select just the folders you want to back up. if the folder is less then 1 gig and you have access to a decent bandwidth, you can even sync it to free online storage sites like box.net or technically any remote storage that your mac can mount as a filesystem.

hth.


cheers!

nox

 

taking off from elbert's suggestion,,

fids, i just checked my home folder. it's 1.66GB. my iphoto lib is a mere 1GB (been OC about storing extra files in my internal HD).

nox, i verified the deja vu app download in softpedia, but it's not freeware. can you refer me to a site where i can download the deja vu freeware?

 

Other than dejavu, you could also try backuplist+ (http://www.macupdate.com/download.php/21413/BackupINS.sit)

 

you can try both and see which works for you. no need to uninstall dejavu

 

am using backulist now coz its freeware. although i think dejavu has better features but shareware

 

funny, dejavu doesn't ask me to register? am using 3.1 tho. does the new one 3.3beta3 ask for one?

thanks.

 

Just tried installing deja 3.3 beta and it is trialware, good for only 30 days then you have to purchase full license. Knowing I'm probably not going to buy it, I did not continue installing it.

I'm currently using SuperDuper! its Universal, its shareware, you can do a full bootable backup which is free but to get to the advanced features you have to buy it. Overall, very nice though.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

 

currently we have 3 macs.. pbk, imac and another imac...

how can i transfer my iphotos from pbk to imac?

i tried copying the whole picture folder (data, modified and originals) and transfer to the imac but when i start up the iphoto of the imac, there's no picture or library appeared... although i can see the folders (data, modified and originals) inside my picture/iphoto folder

can i transfer all my backup to another machine? from pbk to an external to imac?

btw, all mac has different account names

thanks

 

press option while clicking on the iphoto icon. it will ask you which library you want to use.

 

can i back it up using a cd dvd? my home folder is 30gb.