[G4] Safari bookmarks

[Perry The Cynic]

--On Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:44 AM -0500 Jerry Bunn <jbunn at woh.rr.com> 
wrote:

> I recently upgraded computers from a 800 G4 digital monitor 15" iMac to
> the newest 1.25 G4 17" iMac.  How do I transfer my Safari bookmarks from
> the old machine to the new one?

It's the file Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist in your home directory 
(usually /Users/yourname). If you copy the entire Safari folder, you'll 
also keep stuff like history, download history, etc. You will also have to 
copy your keychain (Library/Keychains/yourname) which contains the "secret" 
things like passwords you saved.

If you have .mac and have turned on iSync-ing of bookmarks, you can just 
register your new system and synchronize; the bookmarks will come right 
down into your new system. (Select "from .mac" as "first time action" to 
avoid introducing the default bookmarks into your .mac set.)

Of course, if you move an entire user from one system to another, by far 
the easiest way is to just move the entire home directory (that's what 
"home" means :-), or (if you only want to transfer settings) the entire 
Library folder. That will pretty much preserve everything (except for 
things that go into the system, such as device drivers - those you have to 
install on the new system).

Cheers
  -- perry
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Perry The Cynic                                             perry at cynic.org
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