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Upgrading Tiger to Snow Leopard..worked like a dream!
pulliptears
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After endless problems with an Epson printer I've discovered my problems lie with the Tiger operating system on my MacBook.
I've resisted the urge to upgrade, well, because I like Tiger but alas the time has come.
Went into the Apple shop today to buy Leopard but was amazed when they said I can upgrade directly with Snow Leopard because I'm running Intel Core Duo, brilliant, and at £25 a lot cheaper!
So, any tips for this? Will the new OS be installed directly over Tiger preserving my current programs (CS3, itunes, Zebu etc) or, will I have to completely back everything up to an external drive and reinstall? If thats the case (and sorry if this is a really stupid question) can I just drag the programs from my Applications folder onto the external drive and drag them back after?
It's not something I have done before so I'd appreciate any advice!
Thanks
I've resisted the urge to upgrade, well, because I like Tiger but alas the time has come.
Went into the Apple shop today to buy Leopard but was amazed when they said I can upgrade directly with Snow Leopard because I'm running Intel Core Duo, brilliant, and at £25 a lot cheaper!
So, any tips for this? Will the new OS be installed directly over Tiger preserving my current programs (CS3, itunes, Zebu etc) or, will I have to completely back everything up to an external drive and reinstall? If thats the case (and sorry if this is a really stupid question) can I just drag the programs from my Applications folder onto the external drive and drag them back after?
It's not something I have done before so I'd appreciate any advice!
Thanks
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No, you can't simply drag most applications across - some of them need extension files and application assisters, housed in libraries, and many of them need to be modified to run on Snow Leopard.
Back up your MacBook's hard drive to an external Firewire drive (by using Disk Utility's feature called "Restore").
(You're going to need to have an external drive, anyway, once you have installed Snow Leopard. It has an automatic backing-up feature called Time Machine.)
Run the Snow Leopard Install DVD. Use the Install DVD's own Disk Utility to erase and reformat your MacBook's hard drive. (Snow Leopard probably will not run properly with the boot caches and such hidden things that Tiger used).
Leave the external hard drive connected.
After the install, your MacBook will boot into Snow Leopard from its own hard drive. It will then invite you to import data from a number of optional sources, one of which will be your hard drive. Select that, and all will then be done automatically.
I might (with great wariness) consider running Snow Leopard directly over an installed Mac OS 10.5 system but, personally, I most certainly would not risk applying it directly to an installed Mac OS 10.4 system. Too many differences between the way each works.
Interesting advice you were given at the Apple Retail Store - Apple itself is trying to induce users of systems prior to OS 10.5 to buy the Mac Box Set for £129 instead of the simple £25 Install DVD. I wonder if they have now caved in on that one, now that they have been rumbled...
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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pulliptears wrote: »After endless problems with an Epsom printer I've discovered my problems lie with the Tiger operating system on my MacBook.
I've resisted the urge to upgrade, well, because I like Tiger but alas the time has come.
Went into the Apple shop today to buy Leopard but was amazed when they said I can upgrade directly with Snow Leopard because I'm running Intel Core Duo, brilliant, and at £25 a lot cheaper!
So, any tips for this? Will the new OS be installed directly over Tiger preserving my current programs (CS3, itunes, Zebu etc) or, will I have to completely back everything up to an external drive and reinstall? If thats the case (and sorry if this is a really stupid question) can I just drag the programs from my Applications folder onto the external drive and drag them back after?
It's not something I have done before so I'd appreciate any advice!
Thanks
Best to backup your data and do a clean install. You'll need to boot from the Snow Leopard DVD and format your HDD; there's no "Erase and Install" option any more.
Some applications can be copied directly across, as they'll recreate their preference files when you first run them, but some (such as CS3) cannot. It's probably easier just to make a list of all your software and install it anew on your fresh Snow Leopard installation.0 -
Some applications can be copied directly across, as they'll recreate their preference files when you first run them, but some (such as CS3) cannot. It's probably easier just to make a list of all your software and install it anew on your fresh Snow Leopard installation.
That could be dangerous. Some of it might not install properly on Snow.
It's far better to install Snow and then let Snow itself import everything from the old drive by Firewire, modifying what's necessary in the process.
It's also a great deal less hassle!
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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That could be dangerous. Some of it might not install properly on Snow.
It's far better to install Snow and then let Snow itself import everything from the old drive by Firewire, modifying what's necessary in the process.
It's also a great deal less hassle!
Possibly, but it's better to install the latest versions of whatever software he has, and importing from his old install is no guarantee of that.
Even Snow Leopard itself contains software that needs updated, such as Adobe's Flash Player - it has an older version with a number of security vulnerabilities, and everyone should upgrade.0 -
thanks guys, Im backing everything up now to external drive
Fingers crossed....
BTW Marty, I'm a girl 0 -
pulliptears wrote: »BTW Marty, I'm a girl
Whoops, I beg your pardon! :beer:0 -
Im currently waiting for disk utils to complete the "restore" over to my HD. When thats done I think I need to erase the HD before putting in the snow leopard disk.....
sound right?0 -
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Is there a BOOK anyone can recommend for Snow Lepard? I am getting a Macbook next week and currently use Tiger 10.4.11.0
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Ive used Leopard on a friends macbook and it is fairly self explanatory, I believe Apple themselves do a book though 0
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