On Jun 30, 2004, at 10:47 pm, Charles Martin wrote:
Actually, it's not a miracle at all: it's the NORMAL user experience.
You have to remember that the people who come here with problems are NOT in any way, shape or form representative of typical users. The list is, by its nature, slanted towards the tiny minority who are having issues.
I agree, I have never had a problem upgrading a version of Mac OS X by a major number (10.0 -> 10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3), right from 10.0. What has always given me the issues with OS X is the minor upgrades form Software update. On some occasions (esp. with late 10.2.x versions) I got issues on my B&W, despite taking all the usual precautions. All were due to silly mistakes on Apple's part though.
I've done literally hundreds of Panther installations (all from the same CD -- *just joking!*), and have had problems on maybe 1-2%. The normal course of action is that full upgrade takes maybe an hour, and everything works fine after that.
If I have any suspicion that there may be conflicts I do an archive and install and thus get a fresh system from the upgrade without losing my settings. An hour or so is required to transfer all the system preference panels and stuff that get archived to the old folders however.
I would have to say that repairing permissions before and after, as is my custom, is probably helpful in avoiding problems.
I think Apple's installers ought to do this as a matter of course. It's not hard, and as Chas correctly pointed out to me a while back it doesn't even require a reboot.
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