Clean install to 10.6 OEM from 10.5.8

I just ordered snow leopard. I did not realize, however, that I was ordering an OEM version. (didn't research it until after purchase either)
I am currently running 10.5.8 and want to do a clean install with 10.6 OEM.
Am I going to run into any problems...is this even possible?

As someone else has already said, Apple OEM discs are tied to a particular model computer made at a particular time.
I guess it is possible that your OEM disc is an upgrade version which is provided to people who bought a new computer shortly before Snow Leopard was released, in which case you might be in luck. You didn't say how old your computer is, but if you actually bought the retail version of 10.5, then it is very doubtful the OEM will work.
I guess you will find out soon enough. And don't forget to backup.
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BUT, of course, "PDF Printer" is still missing. The Office Add-In seems to be working, as before, as I can "save as > Adobe pdf".
EVERYTHING ELSE in CS 5.5 seems to be working fine, as does the computer and my physical printer.
NEW round of Adobe TS later today: same troubleshooting as last time > no joy.
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Source:        Windows Error Reporting
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Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
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Keywords:      Classic
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P6:
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Hi, Mylenium:
Thanks for your reply.
Any security stuff running on the system?
KIS2012 (had been running KIS2011 for 6 months back in Mar when the problem first appeared using CS4).
KIS protection was completely paused during the CS5.5 install today & I immediately verified that all Adobe programs were "trusted".
There were no errors or other problems during the completely clean install today (which was done after running the CS cleanup tool).
No indication anywhere that KIS firewall or application control was/is blocking anything (FW is set to notify, rather than to take automatic action anyway..)
Also, had been running CS4 with KIS for many months without this issue (IOW Adobe PDF Printer had been working fine).
Is the Acrobat speed launcher active (AcroTray.exe)?
How would I know?
Do you have enough temporary disk space in both your user temp folder and the windows spool folder?
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Temp folder (I assume you mean Windows temp folder) is ~empty - I run Windows disk cleanup regularly.
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How would I check this?
I am the only user, & my account has full privileges.
Never got any UAC prompts at all during CS 5.5 install (except perhaps at the very beginning, when the bootstrapper launched off the DVD).
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None of the Adobe techs tried this (either back in Mar when the problem began) or today.
I wouldn't know how to do so.
How would I do this?
Does your device manager list any disabled or defunct devices?
No.
My physical printer is an older HP All-In-One, but the drivers are fully updated and it works fine.
It is the same physical printer I had used with CS4 for > 1 year without problems.
There aren't many other devices.
All drivers are up-to-date.
Sorry to be so stupid answering your questions, but I am just a home user.
What is SO perplexing about all of this is that everything worked just fine for a year or so -- CS4 with Adobe PDF Printer -- on this same system.
CS4 had been installed once when computer was new (Feb 2010), and then again in August 2010 when I did a factory image from the recovery partition (thanks to McAfee).
Everything worked just fine.
Then, the PDF Printer literally disappeared without warning or other indication in March 2011.
After the many encounters with Tier1 and Tier2 TS from Mar-May, it was assumed (by them and me) that a clean install of CS 5.5 would resolve the issue.
I do have in my notes from back then that Adobe TS said this was a "known issue" (as that blog post in my earlier reply suggests) unique to Win7/64.
ATM, I am going in circles between Dell, MS and Adobe.
I await your further advice.
Thanks,
daledoc1

Can't do clean install of Win 8.1 missing or corrupted winload.exe

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I see bunch of similar questions in various fora, but none of the answers seem to apply; to me, this smells like an unresolved issue with the Installer.
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Please check if the the ISO file is reliable as S.Sengupta mentioned.
As we have the error message about winload is missing or corrupted, we need to check if it's still exist in C:\Windows\System32\winload.exe.
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Fangzhou CHEN
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Mail backup on Mountain Lion clean install

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I only want copy the whole of mail - with all the mailboxes and filters intact and without having to set this up again.
Any help in how I do this would be really appreciate.
Thanks in advance, Matt

This will be a lot easier if you make a secondary backup using something like Carbon Copy Cloner. (That's good practice anyway... relying on one single backup isn't all that safe overall. I've seen plenty of people who only discovered their one-and-only backup was corrupt once they needed it, or who did something wrong in the restore process and destroyed it.)
Then, when you're ready to restore Mail, you need the following folders from the backup:
Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/
Users/yourusername/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/
Move those folders from the backup to the same location on the new system. The difficulty will be that, in Mountain Lion, the user Library folder is invisible, so what will make your life easier is to run the following command in the Terminal before making your backup with Carbon Copy Cloner:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
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This seems to be an issue on various sites with no one being able to figure out what is the cause and a solution. One person stated his problem went away with a fullwipe and clean-reinstall of everything. But this is what I did already.
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Is there a solution to this? Any and all help, feedback, comments, thoughts are greatly appreciated in advance!!!

Hello everyone,
Ok, I did the ultimate task. I erased the hard drives, AGAIN. Just to start fresh from scratch. Hard drives were erased. Did a new install of Mac OS 10.5. And all was well. I could copy with no problems. I gave the computer to my friend and all was good for a couple of days and then the issue came back again. He couldn't copy anything to his internal hard drives and we received the "Not enough disk space" error message! I was baffled. A complete hard drive erase 2 times, 2 fresh Mac OS 10.5 installs and it works for a few days and then coping to HD we got the same **** problem again! THEN - I remembered that the PRAM battery was dead on this G4 Mirrored-Door Dual 1GHz PowerMac. I had recommended that he get a new battery, because this computer would always have the incorrect date and time after every restart. So with recalling this, I had him reset the PRAM by holding down the CMD+OPT+P+R keys after a restart (start-up Chime). I had him hold the keys for at least 3 start-up-chimes. Soon as the G4 Power Mac started up everything was fine again. He was able to copy files to his hard drives again with the "Not enough disk space" error message.
So everyone! Try zapping your PRAM (resetting the PRAM) and see if this solves your problem. I told my friend to get a new PRAM battery to replace the old one that is completely dead. I have not heard back from him. I will ask him again if the problem has come back.
If that fails: My only other solution would be to consider that it is possible that Mac OS 10.5 has a conflict or issue with the G4 Processors and maybe it is safer to install Mac OS 10.3 or 10.4. Because this problem only has occured after installing Mac OS 10.5, the highest version of the Mac OS the Dual 1GHz Mirrored-Door G4 can be installed.
Cheers,
B

Major crashes even after clean install. iCal/sqlite/MobileMe the culprit?

In 25 years of using Apple computers, I've never had problems like I'm having now.
My iMac was acting up severely with some strange symptoms such as:
* The red & white portion of the iCal icon in the dock disappearing, while the date itself remained visible.
* All kinds of 0K sqlite files showing up on the base level of the hard drive, and a lots of cfx pref files being generated (stuff like cfx#1t9Oiul -- these i understand to be corrupt pref files). The sqlite files, by the way, show up as things like etilqs_3HVA6IL9BWQtB9e
* Freezes, generally slow behavior, and multiple crashes, including the "blue screen of death" where the color just shifts and the cursor comes and goes. Eventually, even after running DiskWarrior, I the computer would start up, then spontaneously shut itself down after the grey apple screen with the progress wheel.
Ultimately, I decided to just wipe the thing clean and start fresh from a backup.
Using a Leopard install disk, I attempted to do the clean install, but was unable to from the iMac's internal optical drive - the installer told me the disk was damaged or dirty (the optical drive is brand new, by the way).
Using a powerbook and putting the iMac in target mode, I was able to do a completely clean install.
I ran all the software updates and have added NO third party software.
Problems are back:
Running a sync to get my calendar, contacts, and bookmarks back, I encountered my first problem again: address book wouldn't sync "due to inconsistent data" and told me to replace the data on the computer by resetting it -- which I attempted to do, multiple times, but the sync always failed.
Then , once again those sqlite files started showing up.
Then the iCal icon disappeared again and programs weren't responding. Moments ago I had to do a hard restart.
I've zapped the PRAM, I've tried everything I know, and I'm still having all these problems (some of which, by the way, are now beginning to occur on the PowerBook G4 I also have).
If anyone can provide me any guidance here, man would I love it. Is it possible the Leopard disk I have is somehow corrupted and is causing all these issues? Or is it hardware? Or is this some sort of problem that's being generated by synchronization?
I'm really at my wit's end.
Thanks to anyone who can give me a hand.
Jon

Just wanted to update anyone who's interested:
After replacing the internal hard drive, all problems have ceased and my Mac is running beautifully -- fast (though I also upgraded the ram from 1 to 2 GB) and I couldn't be happier.
So just a word to the wise: those "software" problems I was so certain I was having turned out to be a hard drive that was slowly failing. A friend of mine who's a programmer said he's never heard of a hard drive failing anything but suddenly, but in this case that's what happened.
With the problems I was having, I was seriously beginning to question my loyalty to Apple.
As it turns out, now I'm questioning their loyalty to Western Digital -- that drive was a dog and I'm glad to have replaced it with a Seagate.

Clean install is better?

Is clean install through flashing better than updating the os from OTA?
I remember in windows 7.5 the clean install that erases all rubish from phone was giving the phone a better speed and performance.
Does this happen to the wp8 os?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I clean install is always better for the device. However as mentioned in the previous post, you do lose all your data, settings and apps. Unfortunately, along with all your data, settings and apps, you also get all the unecessary rubbish and garbage, that over time will eventually use up all your memory, slow your phone down or cause all sorts of problems.
Remember how fast and well your phone used to work when you first got it? Its your baggage in it that has slowed it down. Do a clean install and there is no reason it should not be as good as new.
Personally, I always do a hard reset before and after every update. Not a full clean install but near enough.

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