Your Finder window shows a users “Home” folder using an icon of a little house.
Within the user’s Home are a collection of folders.
Our Back-up and upgrade process will use 5 folders.
(This does not include Google’s ‘Drive’ folder – if you have one)
- Desktop (unfiled stuff)
- Documents (Word, Excel, Pages, Keynotes, Power Points, PDF…)
- Movies (iMovie, Final Cut Pro…)
- Music (iTunes, Garageband, Logic Pro Audio…)
- Pictures (iPhoto, Photobooth…)
Note:
We will not be copying the Applications, Downloads, Library or Public folders.
We will be using newer versions of these that will be set up automatically.
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Place all wanted files and folders into the “Documents” folder.
Using a Finder window, search through all of your documents and ensure they are all stored into folders within your “Documents” folder.
Move them as required.
Delete all unwanted files / folders.
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A suggestion is that you work within two main folders within your “Documents” folder
One named “HKIS” and one named “Personal” (see image below)
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To move files and Folders. Set up two Finder Windows : One window to be used as a source window and a second window to be used as a destination window. (see image below). Then you can simply Drag and Drop and required.
Here’s a link to a Video that shows how to do this.
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Another note :
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to “spring clean” your data – trashing the things that you don’t really need.
We want to aim at not transferring things we no longer need.
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ONCE YOU”VE DONE THIS BACK UP
Any Questions, please ask me.
No question is too small to ask 