Re: Best practices for upgrading? <-- I did 'Archive & Install'
Re: Best practices for upgrading? <-- I did 'Archive & Install'
- Subject: Re: Best practices for upgrading? <-- I did 'Archive & Install'
- From: "Frederick C. Lee" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 07:44:13 -0700
I did an 'archive and install' and all my applications were
transferred with their associated preferences, automatically with the
Tiger Install. What were not transferred were files that I loaded
into /usr/local, DarwinPorts and the like; which is okay since much
of the stuff I had installed were probably not Tiger compliant.
It took a few days for me to run the Tiger OS and check for any
missing stuff from the archived Panther OS.
I've found one application that refused to work in Tiger: 'PocketNotes'.
In the end, all is okay.
What I don't want is legacy crap that is useless under Tiger. Doing
'Archive and Install' has <hopefully> reduced the clutter.
Ric.
On May 5, 2005, at 7:09 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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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