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I had a crash! Before the crash I had some problems with Quicktime and Safari. Not sure if it was the trojan or something else. Bought a new 720GB drive and added it to the system. Loaded Apple retail 10.6.3, combo update 10.6.4 , combo update 10.6.5 and then 10.6.6. Except for fakesmc - it's pure apple os. Everything is fine. Done all the updates except 10.6.8 from apple software updates. No DSDT yet. It's a P45 board, Core Duo w/ 4GB. Everything works perfectly except 8500GT 512 card. Have not tried that yet. 9800GT will not even boot! It's what I was using before the crash. Not really concerned about that. 1024 x 768 for now. It boots very fast, all apps run nice and smooth.

 

Here's where I need help! I have a time machine backup on ext USB. All I want is all my apps (working the way they were) and my mail that's been saved. Bookmarks and keychain would save me a lot of time too. If it was the trojan - would it be safe to get these from the backup? Many of my apps have support files in other folders. Who can help me out?

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Use CarbonCopyCloner for perfectly backup,no needed from time mashine

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Now that I have had a chance to need it - i would say that Time Machine is not such a good method of BU. It would not do the keychain. It probably does ok on a fresh install and just have it get everything. Migration assistant does ok, not prefect but always causes tons of permissions problems. I will be looking into something easier to use... Thanks for your help, rlf! It got me 95% there like you said.

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