Re: Best practices for upgrading?
Re: Best practices for upgrading?
- Subject: Re: Best practices for upgrading?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:09:36 -0400
on 2005-05-05 8:55 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) at email@hidden
wrote:
> Thanks to one and all for your replies on what I should do when upgrading; I'm
> going to go ahead and do a clean install as that seems to be the consensus on
> what is best.
Sorry if I'm too late, but I want to register a contrary point of view.
I have tried all of the standard installation techniques for new versions of
Mac OS X over the years, and I feel strongly that "upgrade" install is by
far the easiest.
I have 4 computers on which I work, and 3 of them have a very large amount
of software installed.
"Erase and install" requires me to spend roughly one week, full-time,
reinstalling third-party software and resetting preferences, etc. (The last
time I tried this, I didn't have sufficient external storage to try cloning
the startup disk and restoring it, so I can't comment on that option.)
"Archive and install" always leaves mysterious gaps in all sorts of
software, and it takes a long time to hunt them all down and fix them. (Most
of this seems to be related to the fact that "archive and install" does not
restore everything in the "local," as opposed to "user," Library, but there
seem to be other issues as well.)
My favored "upgrade" install has never given me more than a couple of hours
of grief. Currently, for example, about 2 hours of detective work led me to
the discovery that the new USB Overdrive X 1.3.8 upgrade is in fact
incompatible with Tiger. Uninstalling it pending a fix from the developer
has solved that problem, and now everything else except my iMic appears to
be working normally.
Before installing the new Xcode Tools, however, its seems like a good safety
measure to run the perl uninstall-devtools.pl script, as described in the
Xcode Tools readme. I always do that because it takes so little time.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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