{"id":800,"date":"2007-11-04T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/taking-mamp-more-seriously\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T05:28:08","slug":"taking-mamp-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/taking-mamp-more-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking MAMP More Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the last draw. I am going to start using MAMP’s local web server solution<\/a> seriously this time around.<\/p>\n

It all started when I decided to upgrade to Leopard<\/a>. I backed up everything else except for the MySQL database files that don’t exist in the<\/p>\n

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~\/user_name\/<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

directory. So in upgrading to Leopard, I also blew away all of those development databases I was using for clients — great, now I’ll have to go through the motion of having to repopulate those databases manually… <\/p>\n

The only gripe I have with MAMP is that it literally forces all the development files to uncharacteristically reside in the<\/p>\n

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\/Applications\/<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

folder. I suppose I could move them somewhere else. But I just don’t have the time to deal with customizing it otherwise.<\/p>\n

So from now on, literally everything that matters will be within the two places that I back up<\/p>\n

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\/Applications\/<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n
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I also forgot to save my Addessbook contacts. But thank heavens the address content reside in<\/p>\n

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~\/user_name\/Library\/Application Support\/AddressBook\/<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

so I was able to recover them. But even if that failed, I had all my contacts sync’d to my Plaxo<\/a> account using its free sync utility for the Mac OSX<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Lessons learned:<\/p>\n

\n1. Backing up files and upgrading to a new OS when one is really tired is not good.
\n2. If unsure, backup EVERYTHING.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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