Oh yeah. I don't even want to tell you how I blue up my recovery partition but that was a id10t error on my part. but he is right. Back up back up back up before *any* update big or small. that montra has saved me about a few hundred hours of pulling out my hair in screaming frustration.
Tc all. On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:17 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James > > On 9 Sep 2012, at 21:11, JAMES AUSTIN <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was not aware of this, thank you for for letting me know. :) > > Let me give you an example of something which happened to Lynne quite > recently. > > Apple recently released an update to their Remote Desktop manager admin > application. There was an aspect of the newer version which, at the time, > Lynne couldn't get to work properly. So, we thought, we have the older > version in a recent backup. So, let's just replace the app with that older > one and all will be well. > > As you might guess, however, things didn't turn out that way. When she ran > the older app after dragging it into the /applications folder, all hell broke > loose. We were getting systemic crashes and other nasty things. Connections > to remote machines were broken, and would no longer function. She couldn't > even establish the connections again at all. > > In the end, we had to re-replace the older version with the newer app, reboot > the system and then she had to re-configure all of her connections again from > scratch. > > Ultimately, we did get it working again. But it taught us a major lesson … > don't fool about with systemic applications and try to revert back to older > versions just like that. That is why I now always advocate doing a total > backup of the system just before any major updates. Obviously, there will be > times when just replacing the application with an older version will cause > absolutely no problems at all. I wouldn't argue that point at all in the > case of non-systemic applications. However, even then I would advocate > caution. You can never be too careful and that's why applications such as > Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper! are such indispensable tools. > > Gordon > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
