Will upgrading to mavericks cause me to lose my personal files?

by this i mean: photos, vids, apps, music
also will i have to resync my iphone to my itunes?

As with any upgrade DO A BACK UP FIRST, so you will have a source for your data should it be lost.
That being said said your data should still be there, if there is NOT a rpoblem with the download or update

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I have a Mac mini that I don't know that much about. It has Snow Leopard, but I need to upgrade to Lion to get the new SDK. Coming from the Windows world, you can lose everything that's currently installed when you upgrade operating systems. I don't have install disks for the software that came on my system out of the box. None of the upgrade tutorials that I've seen address this. Any advice?
Thanks!

Vyneta wrote:
I have a Mac mini that I don't know that much about. It has Snow Leopard, but I need to upgrade to Lion to get the new SDK. Coming from the Windows world, you can lose everything that's currently installed when you upgrade operating systems. I don't have install disks for the software that came on my system out of the box. None of the upgrade tutorials that I've seen address this. Any advice?
Thanks!
Make a Time Machine backup and download a free/donationware copy of CarbonCopyCloner and also make a bootable clone of your system. This is just in case something does go wrong during the upgrade. Then you should just be able to install Lion over Snow Leopard and all your programs and settings should still be there. Just remember that any PPC programs will no longer be supported.
Pete

After upgrading to Maverick, my computer constantly loses internet connectivity

I have an iMac with 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 1 TB storage capacity. Since upgrading to Maverick, my internet seems to lose connectivity constantly. Almost every time I open up Safari and type in a search, I get an error message that I am not connected. All I do is just press the Enter button a couple times, and it connects and opens up a web page. If I am watching a long video (20 minutes long), the internet will almost always cut out during the video, and I just have to click on the bar at the bottom of the video to get it going again.

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Have you restarted your router and your broadband device (if they're separate) since you first noticed the problem? If not, do that now and see whether there's any change.
If your browser is Safari, then from the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
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Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
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Upgrading to Mavericks causes my MBP to freeze once or twice a day...

Does anyone have the same problem and more important, perhaps a solution to this problem?
I recently upgraded to Mavericks on my Macbook Pro 13inch from mid 2009. However, sometimes the system freezes. The cursor in (for instance) Word does blink, but the macbook does not respond to any button. The only way to get the system active again is to hold down the power button and force it to shut down.
The problem only seems to appear when, for a brief moment, the system is not used but idle. It never happened when i was working with the machine...
Anyone any tips?? I had to restart it more often the past days then in the 4 years before i have upgraded it to Mavericks...
Thanks in advance!

Did finishing the filevault encryption make any difference? Yesterday it froze again, in the middle of streaming a football match... So the problem does not only occur when the system is idle... Is anything known about a fix for this bug in an update? And if so, when will this update come?

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Hi,
I finally made the upgrade to Maverick and now my printer/scanner won't work. Help!! I have the HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-one

Well no luck so far. When I get to the point that it asks to "add" a printer, it doesn't allow me to do it. Nothing comes up so I can't move forward.
Donald, what is an Open Source Printer Driver? I am unfamiliar with this and wouldn't even know how/where to begin!!
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I upgraded to Mavericks. I now have a corrupt file in Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle - How can I fix this?

I Upgraded to Mavericks. I was having problems being able to run TimeMachine so nothing has been able to back-up since the upgrade. I have tried using Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the hard drive, and have been unsucsessful due to a damaged file at Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle. CCC takes days to try and find only those files it needs to back-up, so I have had to abort the back-up. I used TimeMachine before the Mavericks upgrade, but with Mavericks, it is not recognizing the old TimeMachine data and can't roll back to the previous software (Snow Leopard?).
How can I replace the corrupted files? Do I need to get a disc from Apple with the OSX software and then reload the operating system? Do I need to restore the operating system? Do I need to load Mavericks all over again and if so, how?

Thank you so much for your recommendation. In the end, I was able to restore from a version of TimeMachine that I had on my external hard drive. I first tried to restore to the earliest version of Mavericks and it had all kinds of issues with my computer being slow and unresponsive. Seeing that this was not going to get me any improvements, I did a second restore to the last version of MountainLion that preceeded the upgrade to Mavericks, and voila, my MacMini is back to its peppy operation. My computer is now restored and functional again.
I am really puzzled why the folks at the Apple Genius Bar could not suggest this. I had taken the computer and back up hard drive to them, but they told me that my problem was data related, and they don't get into data recovery or back-up issues. But that was ultimately what restored my system back to normal. I think they need to be better schooled on the problems that can be solved using TimeMachine. They had my external disk drive and should have seen that it was capable of restoring my computer and suggested that I go home to try that. But instead.

I have just upgraded to Maverick and now I cannot find certain files. These JPG's are there on my hard drives however . I rely heavily on the search facility and this is slowing me down.

I have just upgraded to Maverick and now I cannot find certain JPG 's . These files do exist however I can find them manually . I rely on the search facility and this is slowing me down, I am having to trawl through stuff to find the file I want , before I would put in part of the title and the machine would find it.

In addition to what Allen says, you may find these search tools helpful:
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware/ - EasyFind
http://www.osxbytes.com/ - iFileX (note the MacUpdate link provided on osxbytes page has a Malware advertisement forMacKeeper, do not download).
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Upgrading to Maverick causing problems

I recently upgraded my operating system to Maverick.
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Not sure if the two things are linked or what's causing the problem.
Any suggestions and help gratefully received

Thanks for your patience, this is all new to me. Think this is what you requested. Really appreciate your help
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I upgraded to Mavericks and now can't open/save files

I upgraded my system to Mavericks 10.9.2 and now Creative cloud Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator (the few programs that I've installed) will now not either open files, or if they do takes 3-5 minutes for simple files, and if they do open and I try to save them again they take even longer to save.
I've re-installed these programs... have throw away preference files, changed finder preferences, restarted multiple times, even zapped pram... nothing has worked!!!!
HELP!

This forum is actually about the Cloud, not about using individual programs
Once your program downloads and installs with no errors, you need the program forum
If you start at the Forums Index http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says ALL FORUMS) to open the drop down list and scroll
These are the direct links to the 3 forums
http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign
http://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator
http://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator
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Go to any/all of those forums, and, in the area just under Ask a Question, type in
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Upgraded to Mavericks and now I can't compress files, move files, preview files or open files outside of their native application. Ran disk utilities multiple times and checked file and folder permissions. Any ideas?

For example, I'm trying ot move a group of jpgs from one folder ot another and it throws an 8058 error every time. PSD's won't open fromt he finder, it throws an application not found error even though I can open the same files from within the application.

Yep, same here. Cannot drag and drop copy with Mavericks. A copy paste throws a 8058 error.

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Cant open doc files from the server on MacBook Air after upgrading to Maverick, I can only open up docx file. Thank you!

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I geuss my question at this point would be, would it be worthwhile to wipe all the adobe products from my harddrive and re-install them? Or would that be a useless endeavor.
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I had a situation where when I upraded to Lion from Snow Leopard, my Time Machine Backups became unusable. It says that the Backups were not compatible and it was really frustrating because I had to delete my backups from Snow Leopard and re-backup from my Mac with the newly installed Lion.
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Will upgrading to Mountain Lion erase all my files? And can't I only backup my home folder from Time Machine anyways? As long as I don't use Migration Assistant to restore the System files.
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Hello, I want to know if will lose my apps if I upgrade to Mavericks? I I have Snow Leopard, and I have not because I have fear of losing my apps

hello, I want to know if will lose my apps if I upgrade to Mavericks? I I have Snow Leopard, and I have not because I have fear of losing my apps

You will only lose Power PC apps.
To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. When System Profiler comes up select Applications under Software. Then look under Kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC. Universal and Intel will run under Mavericks.
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