What to save before I format my mac?

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  1. roblyh, May 31, 2009

    roblyh macrumors member

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    I am planning to format my mac. I am wondering what important files from my address book, mail, itunes, iphoto, etc need to be saved and retrieve it later. Thx
     
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  2. i.shaun, May 31, 2009

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    Safari Bookmarks (or firefox)
    iTunes library (entire library, not just music)
    Mail if you want (I usually just let them get deleted, there are backups on the mobileme server anyway (if you have mobileme)
    iCal events
    Pictures/iPhoto library
    Documents/Files

    If you like, also
    MSN, AIM, iChat, Yahoo, or Adium chat logs (or any other messenger)


    If you use programs like Netnewswire, or keyboard maestro, a backup of the macros, or RSS feeds would also be wise.

    that should pretty much cover things. There are also other things like iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb, and other programs you may have projects in that you may wish to save.



    Hope I didn't miss anything lol
     
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  3. jmann, May 31, 2009

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    Don't worry about backing up specefic things. Just plug in an external drive and do a complete backup with time machine.
     
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