tvisher
10-05-2008, 12:47 PM
Hello Everyone,
Question: Could I eschew the rather round-a-bout method documented [here](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196?viewlocale=en_US) in favor of simply `mv`ing the files onto an external harddrive and then `cp`ing them back into their appropriate locations.
Lengthy Explanation: My netinfo database just got corrupted somehow and the apple product specialist at the support line told me that I would have to do an archive and install, without preserving user and network settings (because that would just preserve the problems created by the netinfo database corruption), and then follow the instructions [here](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196?viewlocale=en_US) in order to recover my old files and settings.
I'm not a genius here, so I'm currently attempting to follow those instructions to the letter at this point (I'm really not interested in loosing all my data. However, I also know a little bit about bash and I'm confused as to the necessity of creating a disk image to then copy things off of. My thought is that they have you do this because it's one of the most _transparent_ ways of having the Finder do a `cp` without preserving permissions and ownership (because if the file is in the same file system, it just tries to do a `mv` which attempts to preserve the permissions, which equals explosion since a new user had to be set up to recover from the netinfo db corruption).
Thoughts? It's taking me __forever__ to create the disk image which is why I'm interested in canceling it and just going with the command line (which understandably, is not what Apple's going to document in a public facing tutorial on recovering from this).
Thanks in advance!
Question: Could I eschew the rather round-a-bout method documented [here](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196?viewlocale=en_US) in favor of simply `mv`ing the files onto an external harddrive and then `cp`ing them back into their appropriate locations.
Lengthy Explanation: My netinfo database just got corrupted somehow and the apple product specialist at the support line told me that I would have to do an archive and install, without preserving user and network settings (because that would just preserve the problems created by the netinfo database corruption), and then follow the instructions [here](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196?viewlocale=en_US) in order to recover my old files and settings.
I'm not a genius here, so I'm currently attempting to follow those instructions to the letter at this point (I'm really not interested in loosing all my data. However, I also know a little bit about bash and I'm confused as to the necessity of creating a disk image to then copy things off of. My thought is that they have you do this because it's one of the most _transparent_ ways of having the Finder do a `cp` without preserving permissions and ownership (because if the file is in the same file system, it just tries to do a `mv` which attempts to preserve the permissions, which equals explosion since a new user had to be set up to recover from the netinfo db corruption).
Thoughts? It's taking me __forever__ to create the disk image which is why I'm interested in canceling it and just going with the command line (which understandably, is not what Apple's going to document in a public facing tutorial on recovering from this).
Thanks in advance!