Do I need to move my pictures and music from snow leopard to an extrenal drive before updating to maverick

do I need to put my pic's and music on an external drive before updating snow leopard to maveric

Not absolutely necessary but backing up the system before doing the upgrade is definitely a good idea.
Most likely everything will go OK but its always nice to have that insurance policy in case anything goes wrong.
Also be aware that once your iPhoto libraries (if that is how you have your images) are updated to the new version of iPhoto they will not be readable by the old version anymore. So if you have other systems still running the old iPhoto you will not be able to open the libraries that get updated in the old version.

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