Snow Leopard upgrad from OSX10.5.8 with Paralells 4

I currently have a late summer 2009 Macbook Pro with OSX 10.5.8 running Parallels 4 W/ Win XP Pro. If I install Snow Leopard as an upgrade, will I lose any functionality of my Parallels VM?? Will I have to reload Windows etc? Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks!

No.
No.
Use the upgrade path.

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Uhhh... No problems to report of of CS5 in Snow Leopard... I have not upgraded my Macs so I may have skewed results. I archive my home folder to my external drive, and then erase the disk and install the new Mac OS.
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These might be Obvious and things you have already done... But...
Since doing the Upgrade... Have you Run Software Update... Repaired Permissions and Restarted...?
Also how did you Put Logic on... From the Original Install Discs...?
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I am trying to install Snow leopard on my laptop. When I do this I get a message that my MacHD cannot be used because it doesn't use the GUID Partition Table Scheme.
It wants me to go to Disc Utility and change this, but when I try to do this it will not let me change the volume scheme as it is grayed out. When I restart my computer it says it will delete my hard drive to do this.
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When you went to Disk Utility, what partition map was shown if it wasn't GUID?
Erase and install or Upgrade? In principle, there would be little difference between the results of the two install methods. Many here say that upgrading, versus erasing and installing, is the superior procedure provided that one's prior installation is in excellent condition, and I agree. Others feel differently. I say just do what you prefer provided that your Leopard installation is in excellent condition. And, even if it is, then I would perform any deferred maintenance or troubleshooting before upgrading.
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Why is Apple making me buy iLife in order to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard? I should be able to decide if I want to buy iLife or not.
Just like with the no FireWire on the unibody MacBook, Apple is making another customer service mistake with this.
I've been using Macs since I bought a Fat Mac in 1984/1985, and have converted dozens of people over the years. It seems in the last few years that I've been more dissatisfied with Apple than ever before.

Except that there are usually several ways to get the upgrade cheaper than the full retail cost. I am legally eligible for the government program, for instance, and another member of my family is eligible for the education price. Sometimes the discount is substantial, sometimes negligible (i.e. you can buy the retail version cheaper at Amazon or via MacConnection, etc).
What I'm not saying very clearly is that it used to be possible for users to skip an upgrade cycle if they wanted to. They could upgrade every other version, for example, in order to save a bit of money or wait for some of their software to be updated for the new version, which sometimes took a while. It seems that Apple is changing their policy on this, and now forcing users to pay for each upgrade, even if they had waited out a cycle.

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I have Lion and am using it on most of my machines = our daughter has Snow Leopard on a fairly recent Macbook Pro and doesn't really want to upgrade but we may do that over the coming holiday = the Q is = [1] even tho she is in the family and a student, do we need to buy a separate installation for her? and [2] she doesn't care about anything other than keeping her dot.mac address that is the main thing. [2] should we upgrade her or just use Gmail to get her .Mac mail and not worry about getting her to the iCloud??

If you sign in to the App Store on your daughter's computer using the same Apple ID you used to buy Lion, you do not need to buy it again. It will appear in the "Purchased" list in the App Store, where you can download and install it for free. You can use a different Apple ID for the App Store and the iTunes store, so she can still have her own music, for example, if you don't want everything under your Apple ID.
Your daughter should be able to keep her mac.com address when switching to iCloud. This link might be helpful in planning the transition from MobileMe to iCloud.
If your daughter has an iPhone, iPod or iPad, or even more so if she has more than one of those devices, iCloud can make it easier to keep the calendars, contacts, books, music and photos on all those devices in sync. As for mail, other than iCloud mail having automated setup in Mac OS X and iOS 5, there is virtually no difference between MobileMe mail and iCloud mail.

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I realize that you don't understand it. I don't know how I can explain any more clearly than I already have, that it's a reserved directory. If you have anything in that directory other than the automatically-created mountpoint for a local volume or a remote AFP volume, then your system is in an inconsistent state. A potential mountpoint exists, but it's not in use. That should never happen. The Disk Arbitration framework must always be free to create or remove a mountpoint in /Volumes with any name required. Otherwise it won't be able to function as the user expects.
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(4/3)*5 = 6.666 or you have 1.666 hours to go or 1 hour and 40 mins. At that speed you're only getting about 1Mb/s which is pretty slow.

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Should I upgrade to Snow Leopard/ Lion using a MacBook Pro with 2.26 GHz Inetl Core 2 Duo Processor and 2GB Memory? Can my old macbook take it?
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Yes. You should be fine with Snow Leopard, but Lion requires a minimum of 2 GBs of RAM. If you upgrade to Lion I would first upgrade your RAM to at least 4 GBs if your model supports it. Also, see:
How to Install OS X Updates Successfully
A. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions:
Boot from your current OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then 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. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) 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.
B. Make a Bootable Backup 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 the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
C. Important: Please read before installing:
If you have a FireWire hard drive connected, disconnect it before installing the update unless you will boot from this drive and install the update on it. Reconnect it and turn it back on after installation is complete and you've restarted.
You may experience unexpected results if you have installed third-party system software modifications, or if you have modified the operating system through other means. (This does not apply to normal application software installation.)
The installation process should not be interrupted. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Downloads to update. While the installation is in progress do not use the computer.
D. To upgrade:
Purchase the Snow Leopard Retail DVD.
Boot From The OS X Installer Disc:
Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
Restart the computer.
Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
Wait for installer to finish loading.
E. If updating:
Download and install update(s)
Use Software Update, or
Download standalone updater(s).

I have paid and downloaded LION and want to update my IMAC, can i just run install and it keep photos settings etc from Snow Leopard or is a full reinstall with wiped hard drive, anyone have any experience of this and do i need to run a backup beforehand?

I have paid and downloaded LION and want to update my IMAC, can i just run install and it keep photos settings etc from Snow Leopard or is a full reinstall with wiped hard drive, anyone have any experience of this and do i need to run a backup beforehand?

Always backup your important data before upgrading to a new Mac OS X.
Lion doesn't erase the drive but better to be safe than sorry.
And run Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities). Verify and if necessary repair the startup disk before upgrading.
Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
Before upgrading read here > Lion upgrade questions and answers: Apple Support Communities
And here > What applications are not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"? What upgrade or substitute options are available for common incompatible applications? @ EveryMac.com

Cannot turn on AirPort after Snow Leopard upgrade with Parallels 3

Since I have upgraded to Snow leopard, my wifi does not turn on, I have seen some comments about parallels causing the problem, does anyone know if this is true and if so how to turn of the ports they are using.
I cannot open the parallels environments as I need to upgrade to get them open.
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I find the idea of perpetual compatibility of programs with new operating systems to be unrealistic. The programs that you bought still work with the OS that they were designed for (Tiger and Leopard). In the case of parallels, version 4 has been available for Mac since November of 2008. Version 3 came out in June of 2007. So it looks like they are trying very hard to keep up with the changes that the new Apple cats bring every couple of years.
Since you don't wish to purchase programs that are certified for the operating system you have upgraded to, then you will either need to find freeware replacements or install an operating system that is compatible with the versions of programs that you currently do own. A lot of third party developers are going to insist on getting paid for their continuing efforts. You can also use Apple's BootCamp to run Windows on your Mac. It's free with the OS, but I don't care for it and I'm willing to pay for a program that provides services that are not available in the OS.
Parallels upgraded their software to version 4 for a reason, probably many reasons actually. I expect that part of the reason they decided to rewrite their code was to enhance compatibility with the virtual machine and Leopard.
I was having some issues using version 3 that I bought during the Tiger era (I think - actually started with v2) and they went away with version 4. Version 4 does work with Snow Leopard, and Parallels did come out with a free incremental update for v4 - 2 days before the Snow Leopard release. I suppose that this latest update was also supposed to provide better compatibility with Snow Leopard. Parallels was probably one of the vendors that took advantage of developer's access to the Snow Leopard beta's and they seem to be trying to keep up with the new OS's changes in design.
Now I'm waiting for Parallels to build a 64bit version of their program (which I expect to pay an upgrade fee for). I'm guessing we'll see some pretty good speed improvements if the code is re-written again (probably v5) to take advantage of the new architecture.
If you don't wish to upgrade to programs that can take advantage of what Snow Leopard was designed to do, then Leopard or even Tiger will probably work fine for you. Apple is still going to maintain security updates and bug fixes for them for the foreseeable future.
in what is billed as a simple no impact upgrade
What Apple actually said is that there would be very few changes to the GUI. They stressed that this update is mainly to enable a better 64 bit platform for future programs, the ability to use an absurd amount of ram, and compatibility with other systems like MS Exchange.
I have now eight different applications which are developed for the Mac OS
I guess you mean a Mac OS. This is far from the hundreds of applications that were rendered useless by the Leopard upgrade which dropped support for all OS9 programs. Many people had to find new games that were developed in this century or new word processing programs, or even convert their old graphics files to gifs and jpgs.
That was really painful for some as there are no replacements for some of those programs at all.
no WiFi
Certainly some sort of corruption, or even an actual bug. That's the nature of a bug. It might have just gotten fixed with the 10.6.1 update, or it will be with one of the next updates to come out, or you have a problem in your user account preferences, or some other issue. Anybody who works for a living in the IT industry knows better than to upgrade a computer to a .0 version of any program or OS, and they have backups in case there are serious problems. Let others break in a new OS before you break down. Hopefully, the machine you upgraded wasn't used for income, without having a bootable backup?
My first computer training was on a Burroughs 3500 Mainframe in the early '70s - Many computer hardware's have come my way away since then. They all cost a bundle at the time, and I used each for the best performance I could afford. You'll have to decide the value of any upgrades or updates and that does require research.
Google is my friend.

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I'm trying to do a full system restore to go from OS 10.6.4 back to 10.6.3, can I do the full restore with the Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD, or do I need the original Installation DVD that came with my computer?
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Can you format your hard-drive while upgrading from Leopard do Snow Leopard (upgrade version)?

Hello,
I want to purchase Snow Leopard (upgrade version) but I was planning on doing a format when installing it.
Is it possible?
Thank you!

cocoazenith wrote:
I want to purchase Snow Leopard (upgrade version) but I was planning on doing a format when installing it.
Is it possible?
Yes, the 10.6.3 white retail disk can upgrade 10.5 to 10.6 via the installer, but you can also hold c or option key down while booting from the disk and use Disk Utility to Erase and then install 10.6 fresh.
Naturally all programs and user file will be removed, so you need to backup files first and take stock of your programs that will have to be reinstalled again from original sources.
To get the white 10.6.3 disk, call Apple via the phone, it's not sold online anymore, or search Amazon.com or amc related websites for the disk.
Most commonly used backup methods
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However if you choose to upgrade over 10.5, keeping your programs and files (backup files regardless) intact and it proceeds just fine, but want to improve the performance, you can use this method
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If your upgrading from 10.5 to get to 10.7 or 10.8, I don't advise it. Software Update to 10.6.8 max and stay there, your machine is too old.
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