If I upgrade to Lion will I keep my current bootcamp with XP installed?

If I upgrade to Lion will I keep my current bootcamp with XP installed working?

OS X Lion: "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation
Normally, and if you didn't change the number or resize the partitions, should be fine.
I don't think anyone can guarantee anything, which is why backups are essential.
You can even install Lion to an external drive as well.
For Mac, you can clone your system and have a bootable backup; use TimeMachine.
For Windows, there are various tools to backup data or partitions.
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If I upgrade to Lion,, will my iLife get deleted together with all my other apps that I installed previously

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No they won't but you should check for compatibility
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table

When upgrading to Lion, will the documents, photos etc get wiped off..?

When upgrading to Lion, will the documents, photos etc get wiped off..?

All it does is update the OS.
Which in no way implies that you don't need a backup prior to upgrading. While extremely unlikely, anything can happen in the process.

If I upgrade to Lion, will all my stuff on my Mac be wiped out?

If I upgrade to Lion, will all my stuff on my Mac be wiped out?

If all goes as it is supposed to, no. Your data should all stay exactly where it is. However, there's always a possibility that something could go wrong.
When you upgrade, you need to do the following:
1) Check all your software for compatibility with the new system.
2) Repair the hard drive with Disk Utility.
3) Make a full backup of your whole system using Time Machine.
4) Ideally, make a second full backup of your whole system using something else, like Carbon Copy Cloner. (I consider two backups to be the minimum.)
5) Wait until you have time to deal with any possible problems that crop up.
6) Install the upgrade.

HT1338 My macbook came with snow leopard, if I upgrade to Lion will I be able to use my restore disks in the future and if I do use my disks that brings me back to snow leopard, Will itunes remember I purchased Lion or will I have to purchase a second ti

My macbook came with snow leopard, if I upgrade to Lion will I be able to use my restore disks in the future and if I do use my disks that brings me back to snow leopard, Will itunes remember I purchased Lion or will I have to purchase a second time ?

At this point, you can no longer download Lion (10.7) from the App Store, only Mountain Lion (10.8) - make sure all your applications are fully compatible if you decide to upgrade.
Yes, you can restore 10.6 using your restore disc should you wish to - and the App Store (not ITunes) will have a record of all your purchases, since it's linked to your AppleId.
Matt

If I upgrade to lion will it affect my previous applications?

It's my greatest fear in upgrading to Lion, will it affect my previous installed applications? Hey guys, pls do enlighten me on this matter.

Well, there are many reports of keynote being sluggish and unresponsive in this discussion. But nothing on pages that I've seen. Uninstalling / re-installing keynote has not helped those having problems, so I doubt you would need your installer there. iWork was recently updated to work with Lion, and it works fantastic here. Ur best bet would be to clone your SL setup to an external drive and then update to Lion on that for testing. Then if you are happy, you can clone the external onto your internal.

If i upgrade to lion, will i loose my applications?

I have other applications that i didnt buy on the app store on my mac. So i was wondering if i upgrade to lion, will i loose those applications? or can i save them on a hard drive or something?

You don't lose any apps or data, but it would be wise to do a backup before upgrading.

Since upgrading to Lion my address book no longer communicates with iTunes? This means that no new information is getting to my iPhone etc? Any ideas? Thanks

Since upgrading to Lion my address book no longer communicates with iTunes? This means that no new information is getting to my iPhone etc? Any ideas? Thanks

Nathan Miah wrote:
Is there absolutely anything else I could do to sort this such as phone Apple Support
If you want.
or maybe install Snow Leopard using the disc it came on with my Mac and just set it up from a Time Machine Backup on my external hard drive (since it works under SL)?
Did you install Lion on an empty partition, or did you upgrade Snow Leopard? If you upgraded, I'd not recommend erasing it, since your backups are apparently gone. It's doubtful Snow Leopard will recognize them.
It's not just backups on the drive either, there are other important things on there, so why won't they show?
Mixing Time Machine backups and other data is not a good idea. See #3 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. It sounds like the whole disk is corrupted.
I just really don't understand how this happened. Could it not be an issue with WD because they haven't issued firmware to support Lion yet?
If this is a simple external HD, connected by USB or FireWire, no, unless you installed some of WD's software on it. That shouldn't prevent it from being seen at all, but anything's possible.

I recently upgraded to Lion, and immediately started having consistent problems with Open Office 12 (would hang, and need a Force quit to recover). Has anybody else seen these problems? Any solutions other than going back to Snow Leopard? (I did).

I recently upgraded to Lion, and immediately started having consistent problems with Open Office 12 (would hang, and need a Force quit to recover). Has anybody else seen these problems? Any solutions other than going back to Snow Leopard? (I did). But I'd like to use iCloud with iPad.

Hi Pete. The repair of disk permissions can help resolve any application crashing or misbehaving.
As for Lion and the two camps, I think that is a reasonable observation. In my office we have about a dozen Mac's and about one third of those Mac's had problems after updating from 10.6 to 10.7. The main problem for these Mac's was a loss of wifi stability. But for the other two-thirds, Lion was a smooth transition.
Personally, my Lion experience was fine. But I did get a new i7 MacBook Pro with Lion already installed and only had to migrate my user data from a 10.6.8 TM backup.
So I think that is a key for Lion's operational success. A clean install of Lion on a new Mac would not cause too many operational issues. But an installation, or more correctly, an update to Lion from SL increased the chances of failure for some users - especially when old software & plugins resided on the Mac. And I would say that they were the people that you saw at the Apple store.
As for the "latest release of Lion fixed my problems" statement, my experience with these and other forums is that people mostly only go there to complain about the problems they are having. If they are having no problems then they either keep it to themselves or they try to help the users who are experiencing trouble...

When i upgrade to leopard will it keep ilife

when i upgrade to leopard will i have to reinstall ilife or will it go straight from tiger to leopard?

If you UPGRADE, you keep it all. If you clean install, by ay of Disk Utility on Leopard's install screen, you will lose iLife. Simply reinstall iLife and you are ok (if you own the iLife DVD) or if you want to use your recovery DVD, simply INSTALL BUNDLED SOFTWARE and you'll be fine.
It works - I did it today....for ALL my Mac's.

I have leopard v 10.6.8, if i upgrade to lion will i need to reinstall all my software applications?

Hi,
I want to upgrade to lion OS so i can make use of the icloud with my iphone 4S and macbook. However, i'm wondering if i will need to re-install all my software applications all over again after this upgrade is complete?
Thanks

ekram wrote:
Hi,
I want to upgrade to lion OS so i can make use of the icloud with my iphone 4S and macbook. However, i'm wondering if i will need to re-install all my software applications all over again after this upgrade is complete?
Thanks
No, but do make a complete backup of your system just in case.
Pete

When i upgrade to Lion will my office 2008 work?

I want to upgrade my Mac to Lion and Apple support is telling me that my MS Office 2008 may not work and/or I need a patch from Microsoft. I then talk to Microsoft and they say there is not an issue with MS Office 2008 when upgrading to Lion. Who do I believe? Will all my data files and entourage data remain intact when I upgrade to Lion?

Office maintains a central datafile in your /Home/Documents/ folder. Each new version of Office simply imports that file. So all your Office data such as mail should remain intact after you upgrade. Here's how to make a bootable backup:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the backup volume. Source means the internal startup volume.

If I upgrade to LION will idvd be deleted?

I need to update a MacBookPro from OS 10.6.4 to Lion. I really don't want to loose iDVD. Will that application remain after the upgrade?

But if you do a clean install of Lion, Erasing the original OS during the setup process, or Re-install using the Lion Recovery HD and erase the drive before the install take place iDVD and iWeb will be gone.
My point is do not get rid of your original Applications DVD that came with your system. That would be the only way to Re-install iDVD and iWeb.
In fact I would make a copy of the DVD and create a DMG of that DVD so you always have it.

If I upgrade to Lion, will my songs in itunes be deleted?

I want to upgrade to lion from my early 2011 mac book pro....however i was wondering if the songs i have on itunes will stay in it when i upgrade or not?

Everything stays as it is, dont worry you migh need to make a few prefrence changes and it will be slow and sluggish during the first couple of min because of indexing. even though this isnt what you asked i thought id give you a heads up.
Cheers
HiranyaN

By upgrading to lion will it delete your files from snow leopard

I want to upgrade to lion, but i still have my files on snow leaoprd. If i upgrade, will i lose my personal files?

No. Lion does not erase your files. It will upgrade your Snow Leopard system files. You should do the following prior to installing Lion:
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Create a bootable clone: Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means an external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

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