I just upgraded to Snow Leopard so that I could eventually get Lion. My experience with SL has not been good. First, the Installer would not let me use my hard drive as the source for the installation saying it was used as a backup for Time Machine which it was two years ago when I also had an iBook so I used each machine to back up the other. However, I tried to figure out how to get rid of the files that caused SL to give the message but was unable to identify the proper files. So I went for a Clean Install of the operating system. Great.
But when I went to restore my applications from the Time machine back up I ran into lots of problems. All my purchased software required the activation code which I had on a file that is buried somewhere in the back up and I cannot remember the name. I seem to have lost all my addresses but I can those from my iPad, same with iTunes data and iPhotos. I cannot seem to restore my mail data at all. Many of the applications did not restore -- not sure why but now I am slowly adding when I realise they are not there. I find the whole process frustrating.
Do you think I should restart and try to upgrade again with a clean install and see if I have better luck with the restoration process. You see I think I missed out something on the actual install. I do not remember seeing anything about migration of restoration from Time Machine. Can anyone advise me on what to do?
But when I went to restore my applications from the Time machine back up I ran into lots of problems. All my purchased software required the activation code which I had on a file that is buried somewhere in the back up and I cannot remember the name. I seem to have lost all my addresses but I can those from my iPad, same with iTunes data and iPhotos. I cannot seem to restore my mail data at all. Many of the applications did not restore -- not sure why but now I am slowly adding when I realise they are not there. I find the whole process frustrating.
Do you think I should restart and try to upgrade again with a clean install and see if I have better luck with the restoration process. You see I think I missed out something on the actual install. I do not remember seeing anything about migration of restoration from Time Machine. Can anyone advise me on what to do?