lra/mackup

All prefs lost on installation, how to get back?

jtheletter opened this issue · 5 comments

jtheletter commented

I thought this was supposed to back up all my prefs, but instead it reset them all to defaults. How do I get them back? Where did I go wrong?

From the README, all I did was run brew install mackup and mackup backup, exactly as indicated in the first and only two instructions.

jussapaavo commented

Yes, mackup does not work correctly in Macos Sonoma, since it doesn't support symlinked files for preferences as it previously. For more information, see #1924 and especially this comment.

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jtheletter commented

This app should be removed from GitHub, or at least its destruction of all app and OS preferences should be clearly indicated as a warning to future users atop the readme.

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chrisbloom7 commented

Yes, mackup does not work correctly in Macos Sonoma, since it doesn't support symlinked files for preferences as it previously. For more information, see #1924 and especially this comment.

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Um, maybe that should be communicated via the app itself!?!?! I just lost all my configs after doing a backup - I even ran with the dry-run option first to make sure it was going to add what I expected. Rebooted this morning, all preferences are gone and iCloud does not keep backups.

Yeah, this is an egregious abuse of user trust.

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jtheletter commented

Here is a pull request to add a warning to users.

#2043

chrisbloom7 commented

FYI: This workaround worked for me to restore the missing preferences even though iCloud was not showing all the preferences I was expecting to see backed up. 😌