Thursday
Dec092010

Backup and Restore Apple Preview and Never Miss the Release of your Company’s New Logo Again

Last Modified: October 27, 2010
Software Affected: Preview 4.2
OS: Mac OS X 10.5
Description: This article shows you where to find your Preview settings and how to backup and restore these items.

Backup:

  1. Quit Preview
  2. Locate the com.apple.Preview.plist and com.apple.Preview.bookmarks.plist files found here:
    ~/Library/Preferences
  3. Copy these files to your backup media
  4. You have now successfully backed up Preview

Do this with BackJack

Restore:

  1. Quit Preview
  2. Recover the com.apple.Preview.plist and com.apple.Preview.bookmarks.plist files that you backed up
  3. Copy them into here:
    ~/Library/Preferences
  4. Enter the username and password for an administrator on your computer and click continue
  5. Launch Preview located here:
    /Applications/Preview
  6. You have now successfully restored Preview

Do this with BackJack