On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:43 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]>
wrote:
Did you upgrade direct from v1.x to v2.3, or from some intermediate
version
of 2.x? I found most of my export and many of my printing templates
had to
be 'fixed up' between v1.x and v2.0, but not since. The transitions
from 2.0
to 2.1, 2.2 and then 2.3 worked without any problems at all.
I have been doing each up grade as it came out, so 2.0, 2.1 etc.
Ok. It was probably something related to the tight disk space you're
running on.
If your hardware can support 2G, I would strongly suggest upgrading
it to
that.
I don't know whether the iBook can support more than 1G RAM. If it
can, it's worth pricing what it would cost to bring it out to 1.5 or
2G, but it might not be worth it.
13G disk free space isn't too bad if you're on an 80G drive, but
you're getting close to the limit for good performance and with a
larger
drive you are already past what I consider to be reasonable free
space. I
upgraded my PowerBook to a 250G drive and it works far better now.
I have a 60 gig HD on the ibook. Is it worth upgrading this G4.??
Well, a 120 or 250 G drive is around $100 these days, but it is a bit
of work to clone your current system to it (the application
"SuperDuper!" does an excellent job). And I don't know how hard it is
to do the drive installation on the iBook. I had a shop do it on my
PowerBook G4 (PITA job) and that cost me $80.
Here's what needs to be done and you can decide how to get there or
whether it's worth it:
- do a complete backup of all your data.
- buy SuperDuper! and install it on your system.
- buy a larger drive and an external enclosure for the old laptop
drive (be sure it has a FireWire 400 interface!)
- swap out the 60G drive for the larger drive physically
- install the 60G drive into the external enclosure
- connect the external drive to the iBook and start up the iBook from it
(hold down the option key when powering up and then choose the 60G
drive)
- run Disk Utility. Select the new internal drive and reformat it.
Be sure to set its partition map to Apple OS and file system to
Extended, Journaled.
- quit Disk Utility.
- run SuperDuper! and tell it to clone the external drive to the
internal drive, and restart from there.
Once that's done, you'll have everything intact as it was before, just
a lot more disk space and likely $230 less money in your pocket. At
very least it's cheaper than buying a new MacBook, but then the
MacBook will be so much faster with Lightroom you won't believe it.
Godfrey
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