SL to Lion Transition Help Please!
Hello Everyone
Hearing complains of how "shabby and bad" Lion was I decided to create a new partition to "test it out" but imediatley after I installed it I completely fell in love with it. My question is, can I delete the Lion partition, free all that space (50 GB) and then install Lion over SL? I don't want to try anything before I hear from you because I've got TONS of info in my main SL partition which I don't want to loose. Also, if I do install Lion over SL, will ALL my files stay where they are (i.e, iTunes Library, iPhoto Photos, etc) or do I have to back them up (You should see me at the moment, I have about 20 blank cd's waiting to be burned with my data in case the Lion installation over SL decides to delete my Music, Pictures, etc. SO please, help me out
Thanks for the fast reply Hugo.
As for the transition I decided to risk myself hoping for the best (I didn't really feel like loosing 30 GB of Music/Muvies and about 20 GB of pics). And all my crossing fingers and praying to the Apple gods worked because if you do try to install Lion over SL, only the OS files are changed, nothing else is even touched. It was so good that even my very disorganized desktop was kept the same. So in case anyone has the same question, yes you can instal Lion over SL without loosing any files.
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