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Old 07-26-2005, 12:42 PM
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Hi, Frank.

There are two general techniques I'd suggest for this kind of "clean" install:

- Install Tiger on an external drive, and use the built-in Migration Assistant to bring your applications, settings (etc) over. Test it, and if you're happy, use SD! to copy it all back to the internal drive (using "Backup - all files").

or

- Make a copy of your internal drive with SuperDuper! ("Backup - all files") to an external drive, then do an erase-and-install on the Internal, and perform the migration.

The first option is far safer, in my opinion, and would be what I'd suggest.

There's no easy way to "copy" applications from one drive to another without running their installer. There are too many dependencies, external files, and stuff like that strewn over the system -- you'd have to carefully find them all, and that'd take longer than just reinstalling.

Make sense?
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