Morning,
On 23/09/2005, at 10:05 AM, Glen Craig wrote:
Sorry Ronda but I would not go 10.3.9... ( I feel it wawas a bit
like the
10.2.7 update... To much grief)...
Yep, I found this update a rather annoying transition.
Archive it two thumbs up... However I
have to say the easist way I have had is when I have had the old
system
drive separate and then done a clean install and used tigers user
migration
tools has worked an absolute treat both times...
I would go the Backup Library folder first. Because in one backup it
captures all user folders plus important preferences and system files-
folders, including email's, user and system settings etc... Off
course if this is excessive for some user folders it could be divided
into smaller backups. But, my data/large work files-folders for users
do not use System Partition, they have separate partition or drive
external / internal pending on machine.
Since you are making the transition to a completely new model number
I would go for the fresh install scenario. As new versions of core
programs have occurred not just updated, and with Tigger. Spotlight
does some very interesting caching which needs to be set in motion
without the added extras of a non-compatible OS X version.
Repairing Permissions not necessary as Spotlight will be building
caches once your system has been started again after rebuild, hard
drive constantly working and fans excessively working. This could
slow machine for first few hours or days pending on how much time you
use machine, eventually it will stop and your machine will enjoy the
benefits of Tigger.
After a couple of days it could be worthwhile running the Apple
scripts for the necessary Cron jobs which machine usually does in the
early hours of the morning.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
Apples 101 Tigger home-page very useful before and after upgrade.
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/
But always back-up your user folder first... Otherwise you are
asking for
trouble
Great Advice, but better if back-up was already done on daily or
usage basis.
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HTH
Cheers!
`Rob...
