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A couple of Apple ``geniuses'' (who looked at my dead MacBook Pro)
advised using Migration Assistant or copying from backup directories
only for personal data. Their advice was to reinstall all
applications from scratch. Instead, I decided to use
rsync5 to copy everything from backup (as
described below) because
- my time is limited,
- I did this successfully for everything but Xcode before
(§5.6), and
- my dead system was quite up to date, so anything I whack on the
new machine should be an upgrade of it.
I did worry, however, that upgrading only some system files
(e.g., in /Library), before running Software Update to update the whole
system, might confuse the Software Update enough to abort it (things
like that happen all the time using the Windows
installer/uninstaller--you generally cannot uninstall anything that
is already partially uninstalled, for example), but it seemed to go
fine. Chalk up another point for the Apple software engineers who
wrote the Software Update code! Of course any software update or
uninstall should be able to forge ahead no matter what, perhaps with
options.
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