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Help me answer a Leopard Question......

Mr.Noisy

Mr.Noisy

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My sister wants to upgrade her iMac from 10.4 to 10.5, She bought leopard a couple of days ago but she asked me "what files are changed/replaced if I archive and install?", she has cs3 and a few other programs she doesn't want to have to re-install. So what happens if she does the archive and install

I cant help as the MP came with Leopard pre-installed,

can anyone give me a quick answer, we want to get this installed today,

tar 🙂
 
If you archive and install it will backup your old system to a different folder, then do a fresh install. You'll have to reinstall photoshop as it doesn't like this.
I've tried restoring photoshop from a timemachine backup myself before, and it doesn't like that either.
 
Mr.Noisy said:
My sister wants to upgrade her iMac from 10.4 to 10.5, She bought leopard a couple of days ago but she asked me "what files are changed/replaced if I archive and install?", she has cs3 and a few other programs she doesn't want to have to re-install. So what happens if she does the archive and install

I cant help as the MP came with Leopard pre-installed,

can anyone give me a quick answer, we want to get this installed today,

tar 🙂
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archive and reinstall will take your users folders/applciations etc and create an image, then change only the library/OS folders... then the image of the users folder is replaced. nothing is changed apart from OS stuff
 
DoFoT9 said:
archive and reinstall will take your users folders/applciations etc and create an image, then change only the library/OS folders... then the image of the users folder is replaced. nothing is changed apart from OS stuff
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Thanks DoFoT9 bit the bullet, it's done, as you say, nothing has changed, everything works ok, just had to set up her mail again, but that was a 2 second job, now she is running a completely new OS, 😉 and she's happy.

Photoshop's ok zaney no problems, she is running the complete cs3 design suite premium and there are no problems, runs as sweet as a nut.

Thanks guys.
 
Mr.Noisy said:
Thanks DoFoT9 bit the bullet, it's done, as you say, nothing has changed, everything works ok, just had to set up her mail again, but that was a 2 second job, now she is running a completely new OS, 😉 and she's happy.

Photoshop's ok zaney no problems, she is running the complete cs3 design suite premium and there are no problems, runs as sweet as a nut.

Thanks guys.
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eheh no worries mate. another successful job from DoFoT9 🙂 😎
 
Mr.Noisy said:
Thanks DoFoT9 bit the bullet, it's done, as you say, nothing has changed, everything works ok, just had to set up her mail again, but that was a 2 second job, now she is running a completely new OS, 😉 and she's happy.

Photoshop's ok zaney no problems, she is running the complete cs3 design suite premium and there are no problems, runs as sweet as a nut.

Thanks guys.
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Lucky you, I had to reinstall mine. Must have just been a one-off problem then. Glad it worked for you anyway.
 
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