Preserving all user customizations
After a system install, a user account or a few are created. Some of these users will customize settings using System Preferences. Others will install icons, themes, pictures, applications, change Library settings, edit com. values, adjust plists and so forth.
Then a system upgrade happens and all their hard work is gone. After several of these incidents the users no longer bother to spend as much time customizing - this is the clear fault of the admins.
I am wondering if anyone has figured out how to fully preserve all the customizations that a user may make to their account and then to re-apply them successfully upon a system update.
Please only reply with tools or links to tools that can do the job or a partial task, or lists to files that need to be preserved, edited, and updated.
Then a system upgrade happens and all their hard work is gone. After several of these incidents the users no longer bother to spend as much time customizing - this is the clear fault of the admins.
I am wondering if anyone has figured out how to fully preserve all the customizations that a user may make to their account and then to re-apply them successfully upon a system update.
Please only reply with tools or links to tools that can do the job or a partial task, or lists to files that need to be preserved, edited, and updated.
iMac G4 350, Mac OS X (10.3.9), customizatoin, hacking, modification, user settings