I'm thinking of upgrading to yosemite,will i lose my garageband files if i do so?

i'm thinking of upgrading to yosemite,will i lose my garageband song files if i do so?

Use a program such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper to back your entire system up to an external drive.
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bobfromnorth battleford wrote:
...Now what happens if I upgrade to Yosemite on either my iMac or my MBPro?
If I install VM Fusion or Parallels, does Windows run all the time? How does that affect computer performance? and how much do I need to worry about hard drive corruption?
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I think there's less chance of HD corruption with a VM than there is with running Windows natively on the Mac in Boot Camp. Consider that, with a VM, you can create Snapshots of the state of your VM at a given time, and then, if something goes wrong (virus, malware, software installations), you can simply restore the Snapshot in a matter of seconds and eliminate the problems in the process. Moreover you can make a backup copy of the entire VM file, and replace a later version if you wish. Also consider that you can assign, say, 100GB of HD space to the VM, but the actual space devoted to the VM is only what's actually used; as more is needed, more is made available and Windows can't tell the difference. So, for example, my Win 7 Pro VM has an 80 GB virtual HD but only takes up 45 GB on my SSD, and that's with XP Mode in VPC installed inside it.
Microsoft no longer supports XP, though virus signature updates are still being issued. But MS has installed a pop-up message about EOL that won't go away (it's installed with KB2934207). Even if you remove that KB in Add and Remove Software, the pop-up continues. But if you have a Snapshot or a backup which is prior to it's original installation, you can skip installing KB2934207, and suppress it's reappearance on a Software Update list.

Thinking of upgrading to Yosemite - but want to be able to downgrade to mountain lion - How?

Thinking of upgrading to Yosemite - but want to be able to downgrade to mountain lion - How?
Hi all.
I am wondering if I upgrade to Yosemite is there a way that I will be able to downgrade / revert back to mountain lion if I find out that too many of my most essential applications are no longer working?
I have read there have been compatibility issues between some of my most necessary / favourite applications I use in mountain lion and Mavericks, which is why I never upgraded to Mavericks.
However , I am noticing in the app store there are a lot of apps I am interested in which I no longer able to purchase / download because they require Yosemite, and mountain lion is out-dated.
However, if I upgrade my OS, I am afraid of incompatibility with the most important apps in my workflow though.
Thanks.

Hi Arthur thank you very much for your response.
Sorry for my late reply.
My following question is summed up in the last sentence of this post.
[is only one time machine backup possible per external backup hard drive? Or can I make separate Time Machine backups for separate purposes?]
I went ahead and installed Yosemite.
There are some things I like about Yosemite and I might trial it for a little bit longer,
but after a couple of days of trials and trying out, I've decided that I think I generally prefer mountain lion better,
and I will reinstall it , and get a disk image of Yosemite and run that as a Virtual Machine when I need it.
[^ This is what I should have done in the first place.]
Before I installed Yosemite I [stupidly] used Time machine to back up only my application folders / application support / general system files,
[I used system preferences to exclude everything else in the TM backup] so that I would not have to reinstall my applications / essential system structures.
I did not back up the rest of my files and folders / whole machine though.
I should have done this.
I just didn't want to wait for about 800 gb of data to transfer [impatient].
[in retrospect I should have run Yosemite through a virtual machine within Mountain Lion to see if I liked it before installing it completely].
With Yosemite installed would I be able to make a SEPARATE time machine backup of all my files / documents / media folders in Time Machine on Yosemite, and use this to re-install these on Mountain lion if I downgrade ?
Or is only one time machine backup possible per external backup hard drive ?
Thanks.

If I upgrade to Yosemite will I loose my saved reading list on safari?

if I upgrade to Yosemite will I loose my saved reading list on safari?

Hi Xoan Essex,
The Safari browser in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) does include the Reading List feature. See this article -
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Brett L

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If I upgrade to this will I lose everything on my computer that is saved?

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Thinking of upgrading to Yosemite?

Was wondering if anyone is having an major problems since they upgraded to Yosemite? Like other companies not upgrading their software to match Yosemite.
I was holding off to upgrade because in previous times I upgraded right away and other companies didn't catch up fast enough.
Thanks.

One option is to create a new partition (~30- 50 GB), install the new OS, and ‘test drive’ it. If you like/don’t like it it, you can then remove the partition. Do a backup before you do anything. By doing this, if you don’t like it you won’t have to go though the revert process.

If i update to yosemite, will any of my garageband and i-tunes be affected in any way?

will any of my music stored in garageband and i-tunes be affected if i upgrade to Yosemite. Also is there another way to have back up storage for all the tunes (90) in garageband and i-tunes(playlists, etc) in case my mac book pro crashes or gets a virus? i am a solo player/singer and use the pro with my keyboard. i have backed up all songs on cd's, but i need another back-up to bring on the gigs in case something happens. thanks- any help would be appreciated.

will any of my music stored in garageband and i-tunes be affected if i upgrade to Yosemite. Also is there another way to have back up storage for all the tunes (90) in garageband and i-tunes(playlists, etc) in case my mac book pro crashes or gets a virus? i am a solo player/singer and use the pro with my keyboard. i have backed up all songs on cd's, but i need another back-up to bring on the gigs in case something happens. thanks- any help would be appreciated.
That are many questions in one.
Which version of GarageBand are you using? GarageBand 10.0 and GarageBand '11, version 6.0.5 are continuing to work with Yosemite, but I would not guarantee, that you will not encounter a few problems.
The first thing to check would be, if the drivers for your USB keyboard are supported. If they are, fine.
If you do not need to upgrade right now, wait a bit. There may be problems with the CoreAudio in Yosemite.
Which kind of Mac do you have? I am using two MacBook Pro 17", early and late 2011, and two newer iMacs. After the latest Yosemite update none of the Macs can record a clean vocal signal any longer in GarageBand 10.0.3 or Logic Pro X, neither using myMicrophone connected to Line-in nor simply the internal microphone. There is always an added, low frequency buzzing overplayed to the recording.
Other problems reported here have been a huge latency.

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Thanks Larry - the issue is that I need to keep all of the layers (there are a lot of them) and when I save as pdf it flattens the image. Is there no way to be able to open PSD files now that I upgraded to Yosemite?
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Will i lose all my files if i download this?

Will i lose my files if i download this application?

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If I uninstall iTunes and reinstall it, will I lose my music files?

Hi
My Ipod touch (2nd Gen) is not being recognised in itunes. I have gone through the ipod touch assistant, and this has made no difference.
Next try is to uninstall itunes and re-install it. However...will I lose my music library when I do this?
I am also having problems with my external back-up drive which has now stopped me opening it up (I have had it for a year), as it says "I don't have permission to see it's contents" and "files can't be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be "read-only" - so I am loathe to uninstall itunes if I lose all my music etc....
Thanks for your help
Simon

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