Hi,
Anyone know if there's a package or list file installed somewhere on a Mac computer that contains a list of the applications that were part of the OS X installation (e.g. iCal, iSync, Mail)? I currently backup my home directory, and thought it'd be a good idea to also backup the /Applications folder - but if there's an easy way to find (and eliminate from the list) the apps that are installed with the system, I'd like to exclude them from the backup.
I used to put "my" apps in ~/Applications, but unfortunately not everything will install there - so backing up the non-Apple parts of /Applications has to be part of the plan.
The backup script is a shell script, so modifying it (or adding an Applescript component) to parse a list is not problematic - but I need to find out if such a list exists. 😛
Thanks!
Anyone know if there's a package or list file installed somewhere on a Mac computer that contains a list of the applications that were part of the OS X installation (e.g. iCal, iSync, Mail)? I currently backup my home directory, and thought it'd be a good idea to also backup the /Applications folder - but if there's an easy way to find (and eliminate from the list) the apps that are installed with the system, I'd like to exclude them from the backup.
I used to put "my" apps in ~/Applications, but unfortunately not everything will install there - so backing up the non-Apple parts of /Applications has to be part of the plan.
The backup script is a shell script, so modifying it (or adding an Applescript component) to parse a list is not problematic - but I need to find out if such a list exists. 😛
Thanks!