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Save a location?

calebjohnston

calebjohnston

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Jan 24, 2006
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When I bought my iBook, I initally had trouble connecting to the internet (via airport) and had to call apple and have them help me set it up. They took me through a series of changes that I can't remember on my own.

First, I had to create a 'location' and then alter all of that to make it be able to connect to my router.

So, my question is - Can I save the whole 'location' file in case I need to re-install the OS or I buy a new hard drive for my computer so I don't have to call apple and go through all that again?

If so, where do I put the file back into to make it a useable location again?

Thanks.
 
Ah, that seems to be EXACTLY it. =)

However, when it says to open terminal on the new computer and type XYZ, it's broken into two lines and i'm not familiar with terminal. What exactly would I type into it? (without being broken up, por favor :) )

(I'm going to make some detailed notes for my future reference, so I'd like to have something that's exact on of what I'd need to type.)
 
I actually can't get the first terminal command there to actually open the folder like it says, can you?

EDIT: the bottom of the page has a post from someone saying the location of a new file name. look at that.

is that the locations file that i'd need to backup and replace?
 
Sorry, I should have looked over it more thoroughly. That was for earlier versions of OSX.

Thankfully, all you should have to do now is back up /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ as it says at the bottom. You don't have to worry about Terminal now. :)
 
So I just back up that one file at the bottom
( /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist )
and then replace the old one with that on my new computer and i'll be all set?
 
That should be right. If you want to test it, remove that file to the Desktop, restart, check that you now don't have customised locations, put the file back, restart, check that your locations are back. :)
 
Yep, it worked perfectly. Thanks madjew, you saved me a bunch of hassle =).
I'll probably do a clean install when I get home and remove the junk I don't use and now I'll be set with the network preferences :).
 
Do you think using this file on an Intel mac would work? It's not an application, so I don't see why it wouldn't really work - it's just a text file basically.

However, I'm new to macs, so I could be wrong.
 
I dunno. This file contains some data about your computer that isn't interchangeable. I'm not sure that it's transferable between computers, irrespective of their processor persuasion.

It can't do any serious harm though, so I guess you could try. Worst case scenario, you'll just have to delete it. :)
 
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