[X Newbies] Problems Installing Apps

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 5:08 PM -0500 4/3/04, Charles Martin wrote:
>>>6. REGULAR, VERIFIED BACKUPS. Alluded to in point 2 above but really
>>>can't be stressed enough.
>>Although I believe in backups, I notice since moving to X that people
>>really really seem to stress their importance, perhaps more so than when
>>running OS9.  Given that X is supposed to be more robust/stable etc, this
>>extra emphasis always strikes me as a bit odd.  Doesn't invalidate the
>>advice though  :-)
>
>There's probably lots of reasons for this, but here's mine:
>
><snip>  An OS X system cannot be recreated by simply dragging the 
>System Folder from an old disk/cd/zip as you could with OS 9.

The flip side of this coin - with OS X, there is much greater 
separation between the OS space and the user space. Consequently, 
it's become a lot easier to recommend that a user wipe everything, 
reinstall the OS, and then restore the user space. This has always 
been a much more reliable method of fixing things but is easier to 
accomplish with OS X.

[   Perhaps related - does anyone know of a Norton Ghost-like tool 
that supports HFS+?   ]
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