I need to upgrade to Snow Lepoard from OSX 10.4.11

So the guy at the apple store said I can go from OS X 10.4.11 to Snow Lepoard but my hard drive will be wiped, which I am fine with.  If I have all of my pictures saved to my moblie me account will I still lose them?  I also have all my files saved to my iDisk will I lose those too?  Yes I know moblie me is going away and I am in the process of uploading my pictures to Shutterfly, it just taking a really long time.  Thank you for any help!! 

atuckers wrote:
If I have all of my pictures saved to my moblie me account will I still lose them?  I also have all my files saved to my iDisk will I lose those too?  Yes I know moblie me is going away and I am in the process of uploading my pictures to Shutterfly, it just taking a really long time.  Thank you for any help!! 
Store your pictures locally to a storage drive, the "cloud" is slow and not only that, as Apple has proven with MobileMe, totally unreliable.
Most commonly used backup methods explained
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
stay at 10.6.8 with that old machine, if you go to 10.7 it will kill it for sure
save your pennies for a new 10.8 machine after this summer.

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