Backing up your computer is essential. Hard drives fail and sometimes data cannot be recovered. If your computer is stolen, you also have a backup of all of your documents. Backing up is easy at St. Edward's. The best place to store a backup copy of all of your important documents and email is to save a copy on your personal EdShare account. The EdShare server is also backed up nightly so you will always be able to recover documents stored there. You may also backup to CD's or USB drives.

IE Favorites | FireFox Bookmarks | Netscape Bookmarks Safari Bookmarks

How to Back Up IE Favorites in Mac OS X

1. Open Internet Explorer and select the Favorites menu.
2. In Favorites menu, click on the Organize Favorites tool.
3. The Organize Favorites screen will pop up. Click on the File menu at the top of the page.
4. In the File menu, click on Export Favorites.
5. A new screen will pop up. The Save As title should remain “Favorites.html”.
6. In the Where field, choose the destination you wish to copy the favorites.html to. The default location is stored in the Documents folder. You can change this to your EdShare personal folder or to a USB or CD drive.

How to Back up the Fire Fox Bookmarks and Profile in MAC OS X

1. Make sure the Firefox Internet browser is closed.
2. Open the Hard drive icon from the desktop screen and click the Users folder.
3. From the Users folder, click on the folder with your Username.
4. From your User name folder, click on the Library option.
5. From Library, click on the Application Support folder.
6. From Application Support, click the Firefox folder.
7. In the Firefox folder, click on the Profiles folder.
8. In the Profiles folder, click on the default.xxxx file (xxxx = your profile name).
9. Click and drag the “default.xxxx” to the backup folder or drive.
   

How to Back up the Netscape Bookmarks and Profile in MAC OS X

1. Make sure the Netscape Internet browser is closed.
2. Open the Hard drive icon from the desktop screen and click the Users folder.
3. From the Users folder, click on the folder with your Username.
4. From your User name folder, click on the Library folder.
5. From the Library folder, click on the Mozilla folder.
6. From the Mozilla folder, click the Profiles folder.
7. From the Profiles folder ,click on the Default folder.
8. From the Default folder, click on the “xxxx.slt” folder (xxxx = the title).
9. In the “xxxx.slt” folder, locate the Bookmarks.html document.
10. Click and drag the Bookmarks.html document to the destination or back up folder.
    

How to Back up Safari Bookmarks in MAC OS X

1. Make sure the Safari Internet browser is closed.
2. Open the Hard drive icon from the desktop screen and click the Users folder.
3. From the Users folder, click on the folder with your Username.
4. From your User name folder, click on the Library option.
5. From Library, click on the Safari folder.
6. From Safari, click the Bookmarks.plist folder.
7. Click and drag the Bookmarks.plist folder to the backup or destination folder.