From: David-Michael Cook (bluefusion_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 04:38:28 PST
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:36 AM, David-Michael Cook wrote:
In any case, just to be safe since I have so little on my Newt at the
moment, I have everything on an external 4 MB card anyway. This
wouldn't be a problem to restore then, right?
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 02:57 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
> on 3/5/03 7:32 AM, Peter Cameron at pdwc_at_sympatico.ca wrote:
>
>> The only way this software can be moved
>> from one Newton to another is via a backup and since it has to go on
>> the
>> internal store a restore (which wipes out what is already on the
>> internal
>> store) is required.
>
> Restores do not wipe out what is already there. They only replace what
> is
> the same. So, if you only restore packages, only those packages that
> are
> duplicates will be "wiped out" but since they are duplicates, it's no
> big
> deal. In any case, I have done this, and I didn't lose any data. None.
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