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Re: Best practices for upgrading?
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Re: Best practices for upgrading?


  • Subject: Re: Best practices for upgrading?
  • From: Rob Lockstone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:56:59 -0700

I always do a completely clean install of major OS updates for the following reasons:

1. It's too easy to blame "upgrade" installs for problems seen later on.

2. I almost always want to change partition sizes (or whatever).

3. It gives me a chance to get rid of all the software/preferences/ etc that I no longer use.

Of course, I always back everything up and make sure I note down any hard to remember settings before doing the clean install. I know Apple now offers the Archive and Install, which may very well be good enough. But I still opt for the clean installation.

With regards to Xcode itself, I did have to recreate my Targets. But I didn't do an import of my old project files (not sure if that would have helped anyway). Then again, I had changed some paths around anyway, and would have had to redo some stuff no matter what. So, no big deal for me.

Rob

On May 4, 2005, at 12:27 , Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:

I've noticed that there are a few people that have mentioned having problems while upgrading to Tiger & XCode 2.0. Is it better (safer) to do a clean install rather than an upgrade (will this avoid the potential problems people are faced with)?

I ask because I'm in the fortunate position right now that work has slowed down a fair amount and I could actually spend the time paritioning and installing everything fresh, but I want to know if its worth the effort of getting everything back up and running afterwards.

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