On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi Bruce, > An Archive and Install upgrade doesn't sound like it results in a > clean > install or am I missing something?
An Archive and Install is essentially a clean System installation that migrates your user into the new system. You will have to re-install any third party drivers, pref-panes and such, but all your applications, prefs, documents, etc are preserved. You end up with a 'Previous Systems' folder with the old system folder if you absolutely positively have to recover something (which I've had to do ONCE in managing a number of OS X systems since 10.2 came out, and that was an X11-based DNA sequencing application). No quirks go along, unless they're residing in your user's stuff...which would be transferred anyway, using the method you want to do. In fact this will isolate whether your quirks are system or user-based....if they show up again, the cause resides somewhere in your user directory. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
