Doew Snow leopard upgrade reinstall applications?

[anandds]

Hi,

I just upgraded my Leopard to Snowleopard. I notice some of my application settings have been lost. For example, my antivirus software settings have become default and the log files of the application indicate that there has been a new installation of the app.

Is this true that snowleopard upgrade actually tries to reinstall some of the apps? Does anyone know where I would find the log file of the whole snowleopard upgrade process?

thanks,
anand

 

[spinnerlys]

To have a look at the log, go to Finder > CMD+SHIFT+G (Go To Folder) > enter var/vm > go one folder up by CMD+UpArrow > open the folder called log > open the file install.log and maybe you can find something there.

I don't know about the "re-installing applications while updating to 10.6" part.

 

[nufanec]

No. It can't reinstall 3rd party applications. It doesn't contain the installers for them so it would be impossible to do so.

It might reset/delete the Application Support data or preferences if they are incompatible.

 

[anandds]

Never mind. The upgrade moved the original "/var/root/Library" to "/var/root/Library (from old Mac)" folder and hence all the application settings seemed to be lost. It had created a new /var/root/Library folder with nothing in it.

Thanks for your help