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iSpoody 1243

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Jun 29, 2008
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I'm about to go and get snow leopard for my mac want to know is it better to do a clean install or an in-place upgrade?
also if i do a clean install is it okay to use time machine to put all my apps and files back on my mac?
 
Snow Leopard does not have an "archive and install" or "upgrade" option, like previous versions of OSX.
No matter how you install it, it's a clean installation.

Time machine does an excellent job of restoring your files after the installation.
Incompatible files are excluded.(IIRC)
 
Snow Leopard does not have an "archive and install" or "upgrade" option, like previous versions of OSX.
No matter how you install it, it's a clean installation.

This is completely untrue. Snow Leopard does an Archive and Install by default. You can also do a clean install if you so choose by going to Disk Utility on the install disc.
 
This is what I was referring to:
With Snow Leopard, Apple has streamlined and simplified the process of installing Mac OS X. While older versions of OS X made you decide what kind of installation you wanted to perform before you even specified what to install, Snow Leopard’s installer gives you a single installation path. It’s considerably easier.

Gone, for example, is the old Clean Install option—which moved your existing OS and system add-ons to a Previous Systems folder and installed a fresh copy of the OS, requiring a good amount of tweaking and transferring of files afterward. Instead, Snow Leopard provides a more intelligent installation process that makes such tweaking largely unnecessary. The Erase and Install option is now gone, too (at least as a discrete Installer alternative.
There is no decision to be made when installing SL; just insert the disk and follow the instructions.
The time machine backup is restored at the end of the installation, and IIRC, you are given a choice as to which files to restore.
 
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