Help with archive & install

Aloha!
I hope someone can help me since I've been searching and reading these discussions all day and haven't found the answer to my problem.
I updated my OS to Leopard 10.5 and began experiencing problems. I did a archive and install back to Tiger 10.4 and now don't know how to restore all the user files in the "previous system folder". I've read the Apple article on restoring after archive and install but I don't understand the whole instructions. I tried creating a new user (with same short name and password) and created a .dmg file of the previous system user folder using disk utility. After copying the files, it doesn't allow me to open the applications. It says I don't have sufficient access privileges. I can't confirm if the file transfer was successful. I'm totally lost and confused. Any help will be appreciated.

Which article was that please?

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I just performed an "Archive & Install" with "Preserve" checkmarked. When I rebooted, my dock had question marks where the Office 2008 icons were (Word, Entourage, etc). Office 2008 is not in the Applications folder anymore. I thought A&I only replaced the system files - and left others (Apps) intact? Could there be some other reason 2008 disappeared? Can I just Restore the Office Folder and Identities from Time Machine? Thanks in advance!

Archive and Install is usually the safe way to go with OS upgrades (and the way I have mostly gone on all my Macs over the years).
As Dimaxum suggests, fist looking for the Office applications on your hard drive.
Personally, I would use either Spotlight (first) or EasyFind (free from DevonTechnologies) to search for "Word", "Entourage", "Office 2008" names. And if you find the main Office 2008 folder, drag it to the new Applications folder.
As well, if you find the Preferences folder for Office and it is not yet in your (new) User/Library/Preferences, then drag that into there as well.
As V.K. suggests, it is always possible to reinstall from your source disk, assuming that you have it.
And the unspoken bit of knowledge here is that Microsoft allows people to initially install MS Office by EITHER drag and drop the folder from CD to your HD Applications folder, OR by running the MS Office installer from the CD. (And they do not tell you which or why to pick one method over the other!)
I have used both ways in the past in different circumstances and personally have not found any noticeable difference in the resulting application.
So if it turns out that you find the app folder and its preference folder, and put them into their new home of Applications and user/library/preferences and that does NOT give you a functioning Office suite, then just fall back to Plan B of either reinstall MS Office from the CD (which is usually fast, but then needs to have all the MS online update patches done) or give a try to your TimeMachine and see if it allows a full restore of JUST the Office apps into the new Leopard Mac.
(re your TimeMachine option, I cannot say for certain, as i have yet no experience with running a TimeMachine restore.)
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I need help with re installing my apple account for itunes.

Had problems with my itune account, so I uninstalled and now need help with re-installing the program with the songs I have already purchased.

Your iTunes account is something at the iTunes Store online. It is not possible to uninstall it. Do you mean the iTunes application? Even if you delete the application and restore it, it should not have deleted your iTunes library (essentially the contents of the iTunes folder in Music) on your computer unless you did a separate steep and specifically deleted that too. You need to tell us what it was you deleted.

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any new Apple kB articles
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=articles
Me, I think clone backups are more useful, and only use T.M. as secondary.
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A clone lets you still be able to boot Snow Leopard. Check out Carbon Copy, SuperDuper.

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Hi all, I'm sure this question has been asked before so forgive me. I've looked all around and found solutions that were 'similar' to my problem but none that will work. here we go.
I just got an old Mac G4 tower (AGP) and bought Tiger to put on it. (not sure what version of OSX was on it before) Anyway I did a clean install and everythig works great. No problems at all.
I was installing a program yesterday that turns out needs Classic support. Right now there is no updated version of this program and I need to run it. My machine doesnt have Classic support. How do I install it? I've read that there is a second install disk that you can use my my boxed version of OSX has only one disk. I searched the disk and see that there is a Classic folder on it with an install app but when i run it it doesnt do anything. It just informs me that neither of my hard drivers have Classic.
I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I REALLY need to run this legacy application.
G4 (AGP) Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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I'd find that 2nd DVD, it's supposed to come with OSX
10.4. Follow the instructions on this article and an
"Applications (OS9)" folder will appear in your
Macintosh HD.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/
en/mh763.html
OS 9 has not shipped with OS X since Jaguar.
However, OS 9 does ship with PPC Macs. It should be on the install DVD, or on the 2nd or 3rd CD, depending on which Mac. Example: my original 700 MHz eMac shipped with OS X 10.1 and OS 9.2.2 on separate CDs, both bootable. My 1.25 GHz eMac shipped with OS X 10.3 and OS 9.2.2, with the OS X disc being bootable and the OS 9.2.2 disc being part of the applications suite and not being bootable. My 2.1 GHz iMac shipped with OS X 10.4 and OS 9.2.2 on the same DVD. OS 9.2.2 is again part of the application suite and cannot be booted from the DVD. The Intel Macs at the office shipped with OS X 10.4 and that's it, no OS 9.2.2 as Classic does not run on them.
A boxed set of OS X 10.2 shipped with OS 9.2.2 on a separate CD. (It was a white 'universal install' CD and would install on all Macs produced up to that time.) I have such a boxed set on a shelf in the cupboard right now. A boxed set of OS X 10.3 shipped with four CDs, none of which was OS 9. I have such a boxed set on a shelf near my eMac right now. A boxed set of 10.4 shipped with a single DVD. I have such a boxed set on a shelf near my eMac right now. I have just opened the box and verified by sight: one DVD, OS X only. A further check of the contents of that DVD show no mention of OS 9.
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Help with Tiger install and getting hot keys and start up manager to work

this open firmware issue, how do you get around it? Wonder if it is causing me trouble; i.e. shift and other keys do not work and keeping me from booting with Tiger install. How do I access these keys then?
I did a clean install on a secondary internal drive (device 1) 150GB Maxtor
but it won't boot and "restart" brings me back to install process...
have repaired disk -- OK -- repaired permissions -- OK. Re-installed and repaired. Peripherals are off or disconnected. Current OS is 10.3.9 on 20 GB HD (device 0)
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CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.8)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 450 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 2 GB
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Hi Ali,
re: this open firmware issue, how do you get around it? I really did not understand the support page you link to...but wonder if it is causing me trouble; i.e. shift and other keys do not work. How do I access these keys then?
Is this a Wireless KB you have? Many aren't recognized until after booting.
Hmmm, you've got the firmware Update needed for the AGP to install/use 10.4...
I think I'd try this, worked for me on 3 such macs...
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the Erase tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume, then choose MacOS Extended Journalled, select the Partition tab.
6. Click Erase & look for Security Options. choose Zero 1 pass."
Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
Hopefully then a fresh install will work.
Oh, what are the Jumper settings on hat drive? Apple recommends Cable Select, but I find different settings work with a dizzying variety of Drive combos.

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Any ideas what might be causing this alert after an Archive & Install? >
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It appears after login as the menu bar loads, yet everything seems to be working perfectly - so far.
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Reinstall Palm Desktop if you use it, or remove the Transport Monitor from the list of login items for your account in the Accounts pane of System Preferences if you don't.
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Need help with archive and install

I'm doing and archive and install. The first try was with a defective retail version of OS X Tiger, which did part of the job then stalled. Now I've been able to get a good DVD of this and was able to do an archive and install,although I couldn't check the box to save user settings etc., On the screen it gives me 3 options transfer info from another mac, transfer info from another partition on this mac or do not transfer my info. I'm new to all this, because of the first failed archive and install do I transfer the info from another partition or not transfer at all and find the old folder later on in the process?

Hi D,
I couldn't check the box to save user settings etc.
I think that is due to the partial previous install moving things to a Previous System folder, but not finshing.
Let's see if that's what happened... if you have 2 Macs with Firewire this could be a lot easier.
Oh, do you have a Backup?
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
After quitting DU, look for Terminal in that Menu Bar, open that and type in this...
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Help with Archive and Install

Hi, I just archived and installed OS X today 10.5 and I noticed that there's a folder called previous system. This folder has the same applications that I have on the new applications folder, for example, I had two versions of iTunes, the new one would not read the library so I deleted it and moved the older one to the new applications folder. My question is: Is that folder really necessary? Because it has the same applications that I have on the new one and it's taking up disk space. Is it Ok to delete? or should I just leave it alone?
Thank You for your time

if all your apps are working normally you can safely delete that folder. it's left there just in case something didn't migrate properly.

[SOLVED] need help with virtualbox install

I'm a relative n00b to Arch, haging migrated from Ubuntu (pha!!). Arch rocks!
However, my beloved virtualbox isnt playing ball!
After many hours of getting arch up and running I now need some assitance please with VirtualBox PEUL. I've googled and search these wikis and found:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd
http://www.mail-archive.com/vbox-users% … 02889.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox
but, I dont know how to install.
I used yaourt (having spent another many hours trying to get to speed with what Arch AUR is and yaourt!!)
This is what I did:
1. Visited http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox and followed PEUL instructions...
2. Click on AUR link and then click on PKGBUILD and it downloaded a PKGBUILD from here http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd
3. Then went back to the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox and clicked on VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run and downloaded the file.
4. In accordance with the instructions on the wiki, I ran makepkg
HOWEVER, I get errors!!:
# makepkg --asroot
==> Making package: virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1 (Thu May 1 20:06:33 BST 2008)
==> WARNING: Running makepkg as root...
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Found VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run in build dir
-> Found vbox.install in build dir
-> Found vbox_build_module in build dir
-> Found vboxnet.patch in build dir
-> Found interfaces in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run ... FAILED
vbox.install ... Passed
vbox_build_module ... Passed
vboxnet.patch ... Passed
interfaces ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
This is what is in the downloaded files dir:-
ls -l
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 daz users 3642 2008-05-01 20:06 PKGBUILD
-rw-r--r-- 1 daz users 26055 2008-05-01 20:05 VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 217 2008-01-08 20:58 interfaces
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 125 2008-05-01 20:06 src
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 2717 2008-02-22 18:22 vbox.install
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 174 2008-02-22 17:45 vbox_build_module
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 2179 2007-12-30 12:31 vboxnet.patch
Can anyone help please? In Ubuntu all this was just installed with dpkg -i VirtualBox.deb
I'm sure Arch is just as "simple" :-)
Last edited by keratos (2008-05-04 07:54:14)

grave wrote:Or try the bin file no problem here yaourt -S virtualbox_bin
Good idea, I checked this out originally but it didnt work so I went for "manual" install.
The download from yaourt never starts, just hangs - the server is dead or something?? ...
# yaourt -S virtualbox_bin
==> WARNING: Building unsupported package as root is dangerous.
Please run yaourt as a non-privileged user.
==> Downloading virtualbox_bin PKGBUILD from AUR...
==> Last 5 comments ordered by date (asc):
Comment by: chris_es on 20080414 [17:02:11]
Hello!
Thanks a lot for this package :o)
Just a quick comment about where to copy the Sun .run package. It should be put to where the tarball from AUR was extracted.
In my case, it is /home/[users]/virtualbox-bin/
Cheers
Chris
Comment by: fi-dschi on 20080419 [22:46:37]
You may download the run-file at
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=innotek-1.5.6-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI
Comment by: GGLucas on 20080421 [00:40:38]
Can't get the kernel module working in 2.6.25, vbox_build_module completes fine, but I get the following error:
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv (/lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
with these messages in dmesg:
vboxdrv: Unknown symbol change_page_attr
vboxdrv: Unknown symbol change_page_attr
Comment by: Geekosaurio on 20080422 [03:54:09]
Maybe you could find this instructions helpful
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02889.html
I've not tried this myself but I will do it soon and post the info here. Maybe create a separate package for 2.6.25 kernels it's a good idea.
Comment by: ise on 20080429 [18:12:57]
The vboxdrv from the mailinglist of virtualbox runs here without problems on 2.6.25 with vbox 1.5.6
First Submitted: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:52:22 +0000
Last Updated: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:26:15 +0000
virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1 (Unsupported): Powerful x86 virtualization - binary version (non GPL - free for personal use and evaluation)
==> virtualbox_bin dependencies:
- libidl2 (already installed)
- libxslt (already installed)
- qt3 (already installed)
- e2fsprogs (already installed)
- sdl (already installed)
- libstdc++5 (already installed)
- patch (already installed)
==> Edit the PKGBUILD (recommended) ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>n
==> WARNING: This PKGBUILD contains install file that can be dangerous.
vbox.install
==> Edit vbox.install (recommended) ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>n
==> Continue the building of 'virtualbox_bin'? [Y/n]
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1 (Fri May 2 06:06:28 BST 2008)
==> WARNING: Running makepkg as root...
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run...
--2008-05-02 06:06:29-- http://195.34.175.98/download/1.5.6/VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run
Connecting to 195.34.175.98:80...
Last edited by keratos (2008-05-02 05:52:33)

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