Archive + Install?

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spyker3292

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2007

• #1

So is archive and install sort of like upgrade but it does a fresh install and imports your old settings so it looks normal? How much longer does it take?

 

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spyker3292

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2007

• #2

Can you answer quick? Cause in an hour or so I'm just going to do an upgrade...

 

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cell-gfx

macrumors member

• Oct 26, 2007

• #3

It took an hour on my machine and I had over 140Gb of data on my 250Gb drive. Very smooth, no issue so far. 🙂

 

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spyker3292

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2007

• #4

cell-gfx said:

It took an hour on my machine and I had over 140Gb of data on my 250Gb drive. Very smooth, no issue so far. 🙂

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Thanks for answering, only an hour... I'll probably do an archive then.

 

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cell-gfx

macrumors member

• Oct 26, 2007

• #5

Its worth it. You get a folder with all of your old system files in it, so if anything goes awry, you can get it back. if everything's okay, you can just delete it!

 

twoodcc

macrumors P6

• Oct 26, 2007

• #6

cell-gfx said:

Its worth it. You get a folder with all of your old system files in it, so if anything goes awry, you can get it back. if everything's okay, you can just delete it!

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how do you get it back? so you could go back to tiger?

 

The Stig

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 26, 2007

• #7

twoodcc said:

how do you get it back? so you could go back to tiger?

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I'm kind of wondering also. I'm thinking about backing up all my data on a external HD and make a bootable partition of Tiger on it also.

Is it worth doing all that or should I just archive and install?

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