On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Murray E. Milligan wrote: > I'd like to back up the important files on my TiBook, running Jag > 10.2.4. > > My entire home directory I understand, but where do I go to locate the > favourites, e-mail address book and other files I should back up? All that stuff is stored in the users/username/library/preferences directory. If you back up your entire home directory, you are backing up those preferences. I use my .mac account and the Apple backup utility to back them up to my iDisk. Larger files I back up to CD-ROM/DVD-RAm. Chris Dupuis