So saying that I purchase a 810 for my ailing 800, I currently boot from a 4GB SD card. I really don't want to go through the trouble of the whole install process again. Would it be possible and bootable to copy the contents using the "ditto" command under OS X and then ditto it back to a miniSD card for the 810?

Or do I just need to resign myself to console tools?

You can try and tell us later. But I think even it might work but it is not "safe" because Nokia has two different OS images for those two machines.

The best way to do it is to backup ( apps + ...) to another SDHC card and then restore them on the new machine.

I was thinking of that. Perhaps using USB control to mount a spare SD and doing a backup to it. I figured one of the geniuses here would have tried it. :-)

I am NOT quite thinking now... just come back from work. Kind of understand your question, I routinely cloned my SD boot from N800 and stick it into N810 and has NO problem. I have done it more than 20 times. Or, if you mean to copy SD boot from N800 and reverse clone into N810 interanl flash, that is a little bit tricky.

If making a clone SD from N800 to boot for N810 is what you want, it is really not too difficult. You can either use the console tools, or as I prefer, use the one button back up, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=29135 thread #6. The idea of the one button back up is, once you did it once, you can keep back up any time you want, and it is only one button. To backup, make clones, SD copies for your royal followers, is just one button away.......................does this sound like some advertisement?

bun