Copy settings and preferences when reinstalling Sleepyhead
I am about to reinstall my iMac and would like to know if I can copy my pressent settings and preferences in Sleepyhead, so that I don't have to set it all over again after a fresh installation. Is there a set of files or a folder I can copy between installations?
Should I use Backup Journal to copy data or can I simply read all the data from the SD card again?
09-22-2018, 06:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-22-2018, 06:42 AM by AlanE.)
RE: Copy settings and preferences when reinstalling Sleepyhead
In SleepyHead if you click on Help and then About SleepyHead, under the sheep on the right side you can click on Show data folder. Zip everything in there and save it (dropbox or thumbdrive where ever you can) then restore that folder to the same location when you reinstall SleepyHead.
You can omit the actual machine folder under your Profile name provided your SD card contains all the data since day 1. Otherwise you will lose it obviously. The new install of SleepyHead will read in all dates from your SD card as long as A) It doesn't exist in the data folder and B) you haven't set "Do not import sessions older than" in Preferences / Import tab.
Backup Journal will just backup journal entries (Notes tab in Daily) if you have any. Journal entries are saved in a folder under your profile and zipping all your data will save it but never hurts to have a backup. Make a note of where it saves it to so you can copy it before nuking the OS.
My advice is play it safe and zip everything and save it. You never know when your SD card may fail or if you are like me, I have close to 6gb of data in my SleepyHead folder and I've been through a few SD cards before settling on FlairAir so I don't have a complete backup of it other than the occasional zip file I make when I think of it. (Like today)
