Snow Leopard=Windows

[joelovesapple]

Hi,

First off, I have set out a plan for my Snow Leopard install. Please tell me if this is thought out enough or not. Basically I'm going to install from fresh, and at the moment I am in the process of manually copying over all my music and photos to my external 320gig HD. I have just over 200gig of music and about 2700 photos IIRC.

After that I'm going to erase my HD once I'm in the SL installer using disk utility. Then I'll check for updates, then copy back my music and photos. Then I'll download other apps from their original sources and re activate my special dj software.

Is this enough? It's my first proper fresh install because in the past when upgrading to Leopard I did not have an external HD. I now do have one and also a networked drive on my AEBS, so I can put anything on there like documents on it for the time being. I'll be picking up Snow Leopard on the 19th.

Cheers for the advice, sorry if this post was too complicated.

 

[macjunk(ie)]

Hi,

First off, I have set out a plan for my Snow Leopard install. Please tell me if this is thought out enough or not. Basically I'm going to install from fresh, and at the moment I am in the process of manually copying over all my music and photos to my external 320gig HD. I have just over 200gig of music and about 2700 photos IIRC.

After that I'm going to erase my HD once I'm in the SL installer using disk utility. Then I'll check for updates, then copy back my music and photos. Then I'll download other apps from their original sources and re activate my special dj software.

Is this enough? It's my first proper fresh install because in the past when upgrading to Leopard I did not have an external HD. I now do have one and also a networked drive on my AEBS, so I can put anything on there like documents on it for the time being. I'll be picking up Snow Leopard on the 19th.

Cheers for the advice, sorry if this post was too complicated.

sounds like a plan...go ahead and pls post the results...

 

[joelovesapple]

Yes I shall! If I had another HD, big enough, I'd carbon copy it but as I don't, I can't.

I hope this will work - I see no reason why it shouldn't. I'll make sure I post the results but you'll be waiting until the 19th GMT

I am just wondering about leaving my music on the external now and saving space but putting photos on the macs HD. I have a feeling that doing things this way will be 'tidier'.

 

[jmpage2]

Apparently the presence of Apple's Quicktime can double or even
triple the time it takes to upgrade. See the comments here:

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/09/14/vista-to-7-upgrade-20-hours.aspx

I wonder if that extreme worst-case scenario figure you quote is in
part due to Quicktime being installed.

In my experience, the one thing likely to make Windows run terribly
is Apple's own Windows software!*

*On purpose? ;-)

windows taking 21 hours is Apples fault. Nice.

 

[macrem]

I'm among the many who know SL is great! I have done an upgrade and a fresh install of SL and both work beautifully. It's a computer, it cannot work well on one system and poorly on another without reasons, like 3rd party software, hardware glitches or user error, which IMO Apple goes the furthest to minimize. Results may vary across hardware but comparing SL to Windows is way off base. In fact, I can't remember a cleaner .0 release than SL.

Like many others have stated, if you're upgrade went awry try a clean install (being careful not to put back the problem during post install), and furthermore I would suggest steering clear of system hacks, wait for Apple upgrade things like Flash via software update, and whatever you do don't install any software from Microsoft!

My personal rule is any developer who's software won't already run in 64-bit kernel mode isn't worth installing, it probably has other issues as well. I won't bend the system to accomodate. If it requires rosetta, the developer has practically given up on proper maintenance so forget about it, there are better alternatives...

During daily usage, be a standard user (not admin, root) and only sudo to escalate privs when necessary and you know what you are doing. Be selective about what you do to your system. Use TimeMachine to be able to easily go back to before the f-up.

Most of the issues I see on this forum on a daily basis are issues I never had by having a little bit of discipline. And believe I have done some pretty hacky things! But I make sure I know what I am doing first and how to back out if it goes wrong. If you know what you're doing first nothing goes wrong. It's a very stable, solid, well written OS!

 

[Azrel]

Snow Leopard is great

Really can't understand what some people are complaining about!

 

[roadbloc]

yeah, there's a plan. Linux users never have problems with installs.

best of luck to you.

Thanks a lot. I'm actually on the latest Ubuntu distro now and the install ran smoother than a baby's bottom.

I recommend it as a second os through boot-camp, it'll do me until SL start's being friendly.

 

[toolbox]

I Did a clean install on my Macbook Pro - Then just reinstalled programs and data manually.

The only problems i have noticed are with iMovie, things are being imported in in different aspect ratios, clips all sqwished together and anything i put my project section if i exit imovie nothing is saved there.

Since 10.6.1 if i have to make another pop3 account it will not allow me to download any email.