So what would be the ideal tried and tested upgrade method?
I purchased Snow Leopard last week but have been hanging off upgrading as there have been mixed feedback about the upgrade. I guess curiosity is getting the better of me now so would like to know what is the most practical way of doing the upgrade? I'm also curious about the installation just to make sure that the installation disc is indeed working before I run out of time to return it if faulty as i've read a few posts where users have had this trouble.
Just now I have 10.5.8 installed and I use Logic Pro 8.0.2 and everything seems ticktyboo! but i'll be looking to upgrade Logic from version 8 to 9 in a few weeks so would like to get the OS updated prior to this (I'm holding off with installing Logic 9 until 9.0.1 is released due to various bug reports).
I have the following up to date backups of my system:
Time Machine backup on external drive
Bootable clone of Mac HD on external drive (Created with SuperDuper!)
The confusing part for me is that i've been looking at too many posts where the methods given have ranged from upgrade, erase & install, create a sandbox and a few others that I'm not even sure about. Would I be best doing the upgrade method then using migration assistant to migrate my applications over?
Like I said, it's not a necessity for me to upgrade just now but I just want to have a nose...
Thanks in advance
Bryan
So I took the plunge and went for the upgrade...
and all is well
Being honest this was really quite simple to do and although I know there has been a lot of mixed feedback regarding the upgrade, I think this went effortlessly smooth and i've never done it before! I do have a bit of knowledge using computers but I can imagine that some folks who don't may have issues during the process.
In this case I would recommend everyone takes the time to do a little research here first before upgrading as I would say that there are probably a couple of things that should be done in preparation prior to the upgrade that isn't mentioned within the upgrade box set that the average user would not look into.
So here's a rundown of what I did for future reference (mostly advice already given in this post:
1. Check all your software/apps are up to date and more importantly, check they are compatible with Snow Leopard
2. Create a Time Machine backup of your hard drive prior to upgrading
3. Create a bootable clone of your internal hard drive on a GUID partitioned drive prior to upgrading (I used Disc Utility for partitioning and SuperDuper for cloning) and check that it works by holding down "option" on startup of your mac and booting from the clone drive available
4. Reboot your system on your internal hard drive
5. Repair Disk Permission on your internal hard drive using Disk Utility
6. Verify internal hard drive using Disk Utility
7. Detach all non peripheral devices from your mac (external hard drives, audio interfaces, ipods, usb flash drives, cameras etc) prior to upgrading, leaving only your keyboard and mouse connected
8. Insert the Snow Leopard installation disc
9. Double click on "Install Mac OS X"
10. Read through the "Read Me" document before you carry on
11. Click on the "Customise" tab if you would like to add additional content (Quicktime 7 is located here and was already ticked when I checked)
12. Proceed with the install
That was pretty much it! The installation took me 35 minutes, where the disc did it's stuff for about 20 minutes, then the mac shutdown and rebooted and carried on with the installation. Once It was complete a video clip came up (which I have no idea what it was for!) and I then clicked on finish (or something similar!) and then ejected the disc.
My desktop was exactly the same as it was in Leopard and I tried opening all my apps and they worked fine. I haven't given Logic a good look over yet but I loaded a project and everything was running great.
I've since done a new Time Machine backup and that worked as expected but will leave the clone drive on 10.5.8 for now incase of emergency...
So what the difference so far?
I think everyone will assume this when they do the upgrade but everything does seem to be running that little bit faster than it was in Leopard. One thing that definitely is quicker is going through the System Preferences, this seems really speedy compared to what it was like before. Expose seems quicker to me too and i've read that some people don't like the new layout but it seems practical to me! I've not really tried out the Expose from dock thing but to be honest I can't see me ever using it!
The only major thing that looks different to me (aside from the GUI tweaks) is that the screen now looks slightly darker. Not just the GUI but even within apps or browsing online. This may be a power saver thing, who knows? It may just be me...
So there you have it, one success story (so far) to put your mind at ease when you finally come to do the dirty work! Now id Snow Leopard could only make me produce some decent finished music projects.......
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