Hi from Chiangmai
yes I've been stupid....but not ridiculously stupid.
Despite my Time Machine on my Macbook telling me I hadn't backed up for 700 days or something I in fact did back up all or most of my data on Jan 1st this year when I got the firewire cable properly connected and let it do it's thing.
So, a few days ago I got a screen freeze and on reboot got the dreaded ?FOLDER? flashing.
HD? I thought.....
Took it to the shop it was indeed the HD and the data from the old HD could not be accessed with Data Rescue.
I've decided that instead of sending for a big deal data recovery I'll suck up three months of lost data and get on with it, so I've replaced the HD and got 10.6.8 installed.
HEre's the thing.
Lots of settings are lost.
Example my email is now in a tiny Helvetica. I know I can change it new but is it possible to just access my old settings from the backup disc?
Much more noticeable and annoying is when i write an email it doesn't suggest the name when I write the first letter or two. I believe it does this from the address book whcih now is of course empty.
So, what would be the best way to access and transfer data like this, and maybe keychains, bookmarks and anything else you can think I might need.
thanks in advance
Cheeryble
yes I've been stupid....but not ridiculously stupid.
Despite my Time Machine on my Macbook telling me I hadn't backed up for 700 days or something I in fact did back up all or most of my data on Jan 1st this year when I got the firewire cable properly connected and let it do it's thing.
So, a few days ago I got a screen freeze and on reboot got the dreaded ?FOLDER? flashing.
HD? I thought.....
Took it to the shop it was indeed the HD and the data from the old HD could not be accessed with Data Rescue.
I've decided that instead of sending for a big deal data recovery I'll suck up three months of lost data and get on with it, so I've replaced the HD and got 10.6.8 installed.
HEre's the thing.
Lots of settings are lost.
Example my email is now in a tiny Helvetica. I know I can change it new but is it possible to just access my old settings from the backup disc?
Much more noticeable and annoying is when i write an email it doesn't suggest the name when I write the first letter or two. I believe it does this from the address book whcih now is of course empty.
So, what would be the best way to access and transfer data like this, and maybe keychains, bookmarks and anything else you can think I might need.
thanks in advance
Cheeryble