Reinstalling leopard

Hi,
I need to do a erase & install of leopard & was wandering what will happen to my iphone when I reinstall .
Will all the contacts from phone install into address book or will it wipe it clean, will i need to reset the phone.

Hello David.
What is prompting you to reinstall Leopard and especially via an Erase & Install?
I highly recommend creating or updating your existing backup of all important data stored on an external drive or to CD/DVD media.
The Address Book and iCal applications include a simple and quick backup database option and you want to do this for all iTunes content especially for all purchased content from the iTunes Music Store.
Although the sync process for address book contacts, calendar events and bookmarks is bidirectional with the iPhone, it isn't a good idea to rely on this especially in this particular situation. The iPhone should not be considered a backup type of device and relied upon for this purpose.

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URGENT Trying to wipe and reinstall Leopard 10.5 on my 2008 imac8,1 from the disk but my hard drive doesn't show up

So to give a little big of a background on my computer. I got it January 2009 as a graduation gift, because I was going to get a degree in Graphic Design and Animation. I only worked on it [mostly brousing the web, and itunes] for about 6 months because I was taking all of my general courses for college. I then met my boyfriend [late 2009] and moved in with him, my boyfriend has a macbook so I left my mac at my parents house. I was only Using it every now and then and it would be idle/ or shut off the rest of the time.
Fast forward to fall 2011. Me and my boyfriend live in a condo so I brought my computer over because I am now taking graphic design courses and need my computer. I installed a free 30 day trial of adobe cs5.5. It made my computer kind of slow and it froze alot even though I still have over 250gb's of memory in it. After the trial ended I kind of stoped using my computer again, rather installing the free trials of cs5.5 on my mom and my boyfriends macs until I had enought money saved up to buy it.
Here's where it gets tricky.
So now its March 2012 and I tried uninstalling the trial of cs5.5 on my computer since it was just taking up un needed space. I had to uninstall all of the programs one at a time other wise it would freeze up. I have had to hold the power button down to get it to turn off because i couldn't even move the mouse even after waiting a while. Anyhow I get to the last program and it keeps freezing, I tried shutting down my computer via<apple< shut down. But when I start it up again I got a file with a question mark flashing on my screen. So I looked up how to fix that and had to locate where to start up [I selected my hard drive] then I was able to get on to my computer.
So then I go to disk utilitys and do a repair on my internal hard drive to fix if there were any messed up files. After the files are repaired I figure I'll restart it and let everything get up to date. When I do I get the gray screen with the apple and the spinning wheel. This happens OVER and OVER. I tried soft reseting it, manually turning off the computer, you name it. But it still keeps happening. So I figure I'll just wipe it clean and reinstall the whole thing. [I have it backed up on an external drive]
I try to reinstall leopard 10.5 from the disk that came with my computer, all goes well until I gets to the 3rd screen where you select where to save it to, my hard drive doesn't show up. But if I connect my external hard drive it shows up right away. I try seeing if it pops up on disk utility, and it doesn't show up there either.
Is it possible that my hard drive is shot? I haven't really used my computer that much. Its pretty much sat at my parents house for 2 of the 3 years I've had it. So its not like I used it a whole lot.
Help! I'm a college student who needs her mac now more than ever for my design classes!

The battery alone is a $5 to $15 part. Hard drives vary in cost, and depending on the iMac, they may or may not be able to install a third party hard drive, or one resold through Apple.    The resold through Apple drives tend to cost more. This article discusses the varying successes of third party drives on iMacs:
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-im acs
The labor costs depend on the store as well as the time to get the parts in stock.    Call around.

Time machine back-up and reinstalling Leopard

Hi there,
I love my mac but don't know the nitty gritty... I have backed up my files using time machine on my external hard drive but I want to reinstall Leopard going the "erase everything and start over" route. That being said, I don't want to lose all my pictures, music, etc.... If all of that is backed up in time machine and I reinstall Leopard, will I be able to access it all or will it not recognize the new install? Also, I just want my external hard drive to go back to how it was before it was formatted for time machine. How do I do that?

Hi there jobe74,
You may want to try resetting the SMC and PRAM on your computer as an initial troubleshooting step. Take a look at the articles below for more information.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
About NVRAM and PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
-Griff W.

Reinstalling Leopard without removing or changing windows partition

I am giving my mom my iMac and I would like to remove all my files and applications, I think the best way to do this is to reinstall Leopard but I need to keep the windows partition intact. The problem is that I no longer have the Windows install disc (I do have the serial number though).
How do I reinstall Leopard?

Ok, thanks Niel. I also found an answer here http://www.brighthub.com/computing/mac-platform/articles/48174.aspx except I held option instead of c

Reinstalling Leopard and cleaning hard but can't reload operating system.

In preparation for sale, i'm cleaning off all my data from my G5 and reinstalling Leopard OS.
Every time I insert the original OS Leopard install CD and try and re-boot the computer gos into the start up screen (Apple logo displayed) but just freezes then the CPU fans slowly start to blow harder and harder until my mac sounds like jet aircraft on afterburn. After 20minutes I have to force crash and restart. Without the start-up CD the mac boots up fine and run perfectly.
Any idea what I can launch the start-up OS to reinstall and wipe the HD?
thanks
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If you have been trying to get it to boot from the installer DVD by holding
the C key down on startup, with the disc in the optical drive, perhaps it
may work to use the Option key held down on start up with disc in drive.
+{The original system disc may be able to cope with the firmware setup+
+on the computer, even though it may have been updated over time.+
+So, that machine-specific install-restore disc may be the key.}+
Another way may be to see if the installed system's own Startup Disk
control pane in System Preferences can select the inserted DVD as a
boot volume and then choose to start the G5 from that DVD, then.
There may also be some other issue behind this problematic situation;
and perhaps to reset the PRAM/NVRAM may do something voodoo to
help it get a move on. However, this topic has come up in the forums
and has affected a few different models under odd circumstances. So
some topic like it should exist in the Discussions, and be searchable.
There is also an Open Firmware reset that involves starting in single
user mode to enter command line text and so on, to reset NVRAM:
• reset the NVRAM (non volitile RAM)
Here is how to do it (from OWC):
To boot into Open Firmware, shut down your Mac, then start it up while holding down the
Command, Option, O and F keys. At the prompt, enter the following commands (you may
want to write them down on a piece of paper before beginning this process), pressing the
return key after each:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
After which your Mac will restart.
Edit: Actually, on a re-read, (confirm before trying) there are a few mis-steps in the
above; so check that out. I have seen where this path is more likely, along with above...
+as soon as you turn on your machine and you here the chime, hold down command S,+
+this will take to the terminal.+
+then type:+
/sbin/fsck -fy
If it tells you *** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***, type the above again, until it says:
** The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK * (where name is probably Macintosh_HD)
When that is done, type reboot and you should be good.
Other +general symptom matches+ - with some degree of results, may appear in a search using the words:
• *power mac G5 won't boot from disc* - google search:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=powermac+g5+won%27t+boot+fromdisc&aq=2&aqi=g3g-o1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=83f87efc6f926f13
• Apple - Support - PowerMac G5:
http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/
Not sure if that will help, but it's beyond sleeptime here.
Good luck & happy computing!
+{ edited to add voodoo words }+

ITunes won't open after reinstalling Leopard.

I have just reinstalled Leopard and when I try open iTunes, it gives me the following message: "The iTunes library cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." I have gone to the Apple site and downloaded version 8 and it still says the same thing.

As noted - you will need to do a 'Software Update' as all the OSX programs were reinstalled with what was on the Leopard OSX Disk.
You can try to d/l each update or let the 'Software Update' panel take care of you in System prefs. Including the latest update to OSX 10.5.6.
MJ

My programs don't work anymore with Lion!!!! Help me! Should I wait for patches or reinstall Leopard????

My programs don't work anymore with Lion!!!! Help me! Should I wait for patches or reinstall Leopard????

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Uninstall Snow Leopard and reinstall Leopard

Any advice on how to uninstall Snow Leopard and reinstall Leopard. My Epson 3800 Printer just wont work with Snow Leopard. Thanks

Hello Anthony:
There is no "uninstall." If you have a backup (hopefully you do) made before you moved to OS X 10.6, restore that.
If you do not, this article gives you the options:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545
Barry

IPhoto missing after reinstalling leopard

After reinstalling Leopard on my new macBook, iPhoto is missing from the Applications. Has anyone any ideas how to solve this? I can't find the individual install for iPhoto either on the install disks.
Thanks

Terence Devlin wrote:
so I'm buying my own copy of Leopard
Why?
Because the copy of Leopard she has is unlicensed if she doesn't have the install disc.
Do I have to erase the installed one before I install my new copy?
If 10.5 is working why are you going to re-install?
Well, security for one. I would never, never, never use a pre-owned Mac without completely erasing and reinstalling everything from scratch. Who knows what hacks, security holes, pirated software, or other junk may have been left on it by its previous owner. We already know that the seller included a stolen copy of Leopard. Maya would be doing everything right by buying a fresh copy of Leopard and reinstalling.
And if iphoto is going to be missing, could I install it from the Tiger disk that came with my desktop?
System Restore Disks are particular to the model they come with. Also, it's a breach of the licence.
That's wrong. Software on a system restore disc may be transferred to a different Mac as long as the software is no longer installed on the first Mac. And while some have reported difficulty getting OS X to install on a different model, I think it's likely that the iLife apps will work.
If Maya has no system restore CDs for her iBook at all, she should contact the seller and demand them. If the seller told Maya that Leopard or any other Apple software is included, and then included no install discs, the seller defrauded Maya.

Lost iTunes when reinstalling Leopard?

I recently reinstalled Leopard. Before I erased my hard drive, I copied the folder Users/MyName/Music/iTunes to my external hard drive. Inside it were three folders named Album Artwork, iTunes Music and Previous iTunes Libraries, along with the files iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.
On my current hard drive, that same folder contained the folders Album Artwork and iTunes Music, until I replaced them with the contents of the older installation.
But when I try to open iTunes, I get this message:
The file "iTunes Library" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes.
It seems like I'm constantly downloading iTunes software updates. So my hunch is that the iTunes program on the drive I just erased was actually a more recent version than the one on my current installation. Thus, I'm guessing I might fix the problem by simply updating iTunes.
Does that sound like a good guess? If so, how do I go about finding and downloading the necessary iTunes upgrades?
I should also mention that I cloned my entire hard drive a couple weeks ago. If necessary, I could access my clone and copy whatever I need to rebuild iTunes. The only catch is that I imported half a dozen songs AFTER I cloned my hard drive. However, I believe I saved those songs when I copied my Music/iTunes folder before erasing my hard drive.
Thanks.

The Software Update pane of System Preferences will show you the update, and you can get the current version of iTunes from here. Any version of iTunes can be directly updated to the current version on a compatible OS.
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Can't REinstall leopard, and I'm losing my patience

Here's the thing. My computer has been having kernel panics and has been running way too slow. So, what I wanted to do was to erase everything and reinstall Leopard. So, I tried doing it with a copy of the original Leopard DVD that I have. I selected delete and install on my Macintosh HD partition. I let the machine verify de DVD (took half an hour I think) and the process started. Not even One third through I got a message that the media source had an error or something like that. So, everything was erased from my Macintosh HD, but nothing installed. So, I tried again, same error. After about three tries, I gave up and went to my office and brought the original Leopard DVD I have. I tried reinstalling with it and I got the same error twice so I gave up with that.
So, I partitioned an external USB Hard drive, and in a 10 GB partition I restored an image of the original Leopard DVD. To my surprise, I got the same error message, "media source error" etc. So, I restored to a time machine backup date from my external firewire HD. My plan was to partition my firewire HD and do the same thing I did with my usb HD, but only this time it will be a firewire drive and it may work. So, the restore went fine, and I partitioned my HD (all my time machine backups were erased in order to partition the HD), so I told time machine to make a back up now. When time machine was backing up my drive, I got an error, and the drive couldn't be backed up. So, I tried again, and the same error appeared. I don't remember if it said anything about the error (because it was very late last night), but I think it only said that time machine couldn't complete the backup because there was an internal error, something like that.
So now, what should I do? I can't try to install leopard again because I have nothing to restore from, and I can't backup my drive because Time machine encounters errors when it tries. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Resolving kernel panics:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227

Backed up whole HD now I'd like to reinstall leopard

Just installed a 500GB in my macbook pro. I used Carbon copy cloner to copy my hd to my new one before i installed it. I now would like to reintall Leopard and snow leopard on my new HD and start all over. I still want all my pictures, music, and movies. So I understand that all i have to do with that is move over those files. As far as applications I've downloaded, I know I can just move the apps over, but what about all the little files you can't find? What's the best way to reinstall leopard and start over. But keep all my apps? New to back ups.

If you were going to start over why did you clone your old drive to the new one. I'm not sure I grasp what your goal is. If reinstalling was the purpose then you should not have restored your old drive's system to your new one. You should have prepped the new drive (did you do that, btw?) and installed a fresh copy of Snow Leopard on it, then used Migration Assistant to restore your Home folder and third-party applications. Now you will just need to start over.
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your SL Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Upon completion of formatting quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the Snow Leopard installation. When SL restarts to the Setup Assistant follow instructions until you get to the point where you set up your initial admin account. Be sure to choose a short name that is NOT the same as the one you were using for your old Leopard system. Upon completion of the Setup Assistant you will have an opportunity to use Migration Assistant to migrate files from another computer or attached hard drive. You can then migrate your Home and Applications folders, support files, and preferences from the clone on your old drive.

Lost Disk space after Reinstalling Leopard

I upgraded my Mac OS v.10.4.9 to Leopard v.10.5.1 in May and after Leopard was installed I had about 13 GB HD space left. It was lightning quick too. The new OS was v.10.5.1
Since then I've been downloading regular Security updates as they were prompted until the OS reached v.10.5.5 but the whole thing was gradually getting slower too so I figured I would reinstall Leopard and take it back to v.10.5.1 to see if it was back to the high speed it had when I originally installed Leopard v.10.5.1.
After I re-installed Leopard last week and it was back to v.10.5.1 it went back to running superfast again, but yesterday I started getting a notice that said I was running low on Startup disk space and I needed to delete some stuff to gain space.
When I checked available space I have less than 1 GB, about 300MB.
It seems that by re-installing Leopard it has been written adjacent to the 10.5.5 instead of on top of it, which I thought it would do automatically.
I found a file named 'Previous systems' on the HD and deleted that but it screwed it up so I had to restore that and now it's back to normal but I've still got less than 1 GB disk space.
Can anyone tell me how to delete my old operating systems (both the 10.5.5 and the 10.4.9 that I presume is still on there, which I originally upgraded to Leopard.)
I'm a conservative user of disk space and I deleted all my photos and only gained about 20 MB of new space so I'm pretty sure the problem is the OS's are written adjacent to each other instead of on top of each other.

Barry,
Thank you for your help.
When I deleted the Previous Systems file it was about 7 months after the Leopard installation.
You are right, I did do an Archive and Install in order to maintain all my info from v10.4.9.
The problem I encountered after I deleted the Previous Systems file was I then did a Secure Empty Trash and as it was emptying it was showing over 200,000 items and still upticking and that worried me that I had done the wrong thing by deleting the Previous Systems file.
So I stopped the Emptying process, and did a restart, thinking my HD space may be restored if the file was indeed possible to be deleted.
When it restarted that time, instead of the usual boot up process, there was a small flashing square box in the centre of a grey background, the small box had a blue earth in it and that went on flashing for maybe 20 minutes.
It eventually booted up and so I went to the trash, where the now presumably slightly diminished Previous Systems file was, and I dragged that file back into the HD and re-started the machine.
The world sign again flashed on, but this time for maybe only 10 minutes before it booted OK.
I checked and I was back to v.10.5.1 bit still with only about 300MB Disk space.
That's when I deleted all my photos but that only gave me about 20MB so now I'm up to about 320 MB - but as you say that is nowhere near enough.
But I do notice a definite increase in speed using 10.5.1 compared to 10.5.5. Those Security Updates have dragged it down badly.
Now that you have explained that the Previous Systems file may be safely deleted then I will try that again and let it run its course this time.
I'll let you know what happens.
Thanks again,
ann

Strange Permissions lead to having to reinstall Leopard...

Hey there, I've been having some interesting issues with my new iMac Intel Core 2 Duo with Leopard 10.5.1. The following has happened twice so far:
• Everything appears to be fine when I sleep my computer.
• The next time I go to wake it, the dock is clear. Weird.
• I repair my permissions using Disk Utility, which takes about 20 minutes, and finds quite a few errors (see movie).
• When I try to restart my computer, it won't get past the light blue screen (just before the desktop loads).
•I have to restart using the install disc and holding the "C" key to run Disk Utility (to fix permissions) reinstall Leopard (with an Archive & Install).
• Everything is fine when the install finishes.
Anyone have any idea of what's happening? It's really quite frustrating when I have to reinstall Leopard.
Here's a link to a video of what happened:
http://www.divshare.com/download/2877647-b2e
Sorry, but you'll have to download the video. Thanks for your time.

GrooveMachine,
You have a couple icons in the dock I don't recognize, the blue and white globe next to Word, and the black and white icon to the right of the Word icon. Do you have any third-party enhancement software? Any non-Apple login items? See here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
Repair permissions only on the volume from which you're started up, not when booted from a different volume.
Restart in Safe Mode. Shut down, then immediately after pressing power button to start up press and hold the Shift key and keep holding it until login screen appears. Log in and finish startup.
Remove any non-Apple login items or enhancement software.
If there was any non-Apple software removed or disabled, restart normally and see if it works.
If not, reboot from Leopard DVD (with Leopard DVD in the drive hold down Option key on restart and keep holding, choose to start from Leopard DVD). Run Disk Utility and select Macintosh HD but do NOT repair permissions. Instead Repair Disk and if any errors are encountered, Repair Disk again until no errors reported.
Do you have admin privileges for yourself as user? If not, you should. If not, see here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306876
If you are an admin user after you Repair Disk set startup disk to Macintosh HD and give it another try.
Let us know how it goes.

Syncing after reinstalling Leopard

So I reinstalled Leopard, and for some dumb reason my iPod says that it normally gets synced with another library and that if I want to sync it with this one, I have to erase everything on it (which is problematic because I haven't backed it up in a month).
I'd like to know how I can backup my setting and apps, erase my iPod, sync it with my library, and then transfer music without getting rid of all of my applications and their settings.
Thanks a bunch,
SeanDaBomb

Start itunes, disable automatic sync. Connect your ipod, backup manually by right click on "ipod" in left itunes media window. This backup will contain all settings but no music or videos and you can use it to restore after your ipod was wiped the first time you synced. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
and http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414.
Transfer your purchases als well (File>transfer purchases)
As you still have your itunes library on your mac, you can sync content afterwards. You can download your apps again for free http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519 and http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1977

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