Thank you for your replies and help! I have - as you can see - managed it! It has all gone well and my Powerbook is much lilghter data wise! It has not cleared the original issue from which the suggestion came but since I have got around that by buying a firewire LaCie DVD rewriter from Cancom (which is excellent) I am happy.
Andrew 2009/2/21 Jason Davies <[email protected]> > > Andrew Tett wrote on 21/2/09 at 09:42 > > > > >Also, I have a couple of programmes like Toast, where I have say 6.0.1 > >as an original disk and have to go through all the successive updates > >once the original is installed. Is there a way of "fooling" the mac to > >think that the original is installed and simply install the update, > >which as far as I can see is probably a fully functional version in > >itself? Can I also get rid of the earlier versions which seem to sit > >on the hard disc and take up space once superceded? > > try running the last one? if it's still the same version (6) > then I would expect it to do the right thing. I think the same > thing goes for the OS X updates but you could try downloading > the combo installer for 10.4.11 rather than using Software > update, and applying it direct before you check Software update. > > good luck. it is a major task doing a clean install! > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
