Location of System Settings?

[j.drake.hoffman]

hello, I will be migrating to a small SSD soon, (with current HDD in optical bay) and in the interest of having to restore as little as possible, I was wondering if anyone knows where the system setting for snow leopard are located?

its just that with >40GB to work with, i'd like to put as little on the boot drive while maintaining system appearance (like menu-bar, dock settings, etc.). My thought through all of this was that i could do a clean instal on the drive and then restore the appropriate folder(s) only to achieve this goal.

i know i could just proceed as planned and restore the "System" and "Library" folders--which seem the most likely at this point--but if anyone actually knows, and would be so kind enough as to share this information that would be awesome.

 

[hakuryuu]

A clean Snow Leopard install shouldn't take more than.. 6-7GB. Maybe less if you make sure to customize the installation to only include the bare minimum.

 

[j.drake.hoffman]

that was my thoguht, but i was hoping to be able to be lazy and not have to manually reconfigure everything....

thanks though!

 

[MacManiac76]

Most of the settings will be saved in .plist files in the Library folders located at ~/Library/Preferences and /Library/Preferences.

 

[mrchinchilla]

I did this recently and I basically just copied over the Preferences, PreferencePanes and Application Support folders from both /Library/ and ~/Library/.

 

[j.drake.hoffman]

awesome! thanks. thats more or less what i figured. i think i'll just do a clean install, restore apps and select folders. thanks for everyone's input