Re: Backing up user account

On 21/09/2005, Peter James wrote in message
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> If I back up my user account, does that effectively back up all of the
> email, bookmarks as well as documents and pictures and other personal
> files?

If you mean you back up all the contents of the folder in /Users then yes.
If you just back up your Documents folder, then no.

Simon.
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