Wow, macrumours has abssolutely amazing ppl. No joke, other forums are populated with trolls or ignorant people who never reply.
Plist files:
For example, look in ~/Library/Safari to see Bookmarks.plist. This file holds all your Safari bookmarks.
So if you do a clean install of OSX, safari will also be installed; but you can only get your bookmarks back if you copied this file first to an external disk (or USB stick), installed OSX and put it back in the respective Library folder.
Oh, THAT's what it does, silly me. I once deleted all of them since my safari wouldn't open.
Mr Kramer,
Your friend was lying to you, unless you've paid for the developer program, the only way to get lion is by pirating it. And as it is still beta software, it is eхpecked to have bugs, you shouldn't use beta software for any serious work besides testing for compatibility.
Guessed that much. He already reverted though, but he didn't have the brain to do some research first so all his data was lost, and that was his main computer! Serves him right, lying to me ( geez...)
PS: Are u THE Andrew Kramer?
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ANd when I say work, I meant school. High school doesn't leave u with much spare time.
Oh! OK. Shouldn't be much of an issue then.
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Plist files? I dont know what you're talking about.
Property list files and other document files where the applications store their settings.
Usually located in ~/Library/Preferences
~/Library/Application\ Support/
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ERmm, I'm far form a developer. My friends helped me install it and he said that it was fully legal. Shouldn't have trusted him *sigh*
It's illegal to use OS X Lion if you're not a developer. Maybe, your punishment is losing all your important work.
Please tell your friends that if they are using Lion without a developer license, they are using it illegally and can have issues.
zeemerman told me what plist files are already, but thanks anyway.
I have a backup of my documents in my external HDD, so it'll be ok.
They already reverted, with a complete loss of data! Epic fail on their part.
For the record, you can have issues even if you are a developer and using it legally. That's why they always warn you not to install it on a mission critical machine.
The bugs didn't really bother me at first, but after a while they seem to slow down system performance and I just can't take that,
I haven't downgraded yet, firstly because I have some unknown thing taking up a 100GB of my space, so I can't use the drag and drop technique. I can't use hard disks too, cos NTFS 3G aint working for me for some reason. I plan to either find the source of memory clogging, or reformat my brothers hard disk to FAT-32.
Which one would you recommend? ( FYI, he doesnt have anything that I dont have on my hard disk already, so dont worry. I just wanna know which will be easier to do ) And for the memory thing, should I start a new thread?
