Hi to all. I'm fairly new to mac. I bought my first one about 7 months ago, and it came with Tiger - now running 10.4.11, no problems at all so far. I received the free leopard upgrade disk, but now I realize I can't put the upgrade off much longer (with more and more apps being leopard based, the intro of me.com (I'm a .mac user), etc.
My main concern is this: I have Adobe CS3 Premium Design installed. I teach in a university, and they installed it for me as a professor using one of the university's licences. To do so, I had to take my 24'/2.4Ghz/4GB intel imac to the IT department, and leave it there until they have time to install - which means being 2-3 day without my computer, plus the risk of taking it out of my house, etc... I dont wanto to go through that again...
I'd like to do the upgrade, but I have read that a "clean upgrade" is the best way to go to avoid future problems. If so, or if there is any risk with the normal upgrade, this is my question:
So, ¿how can I...
a) have an application/bootable backup in case something goes wrong, to go back to Tiger and my apps as they are now and reinstall them...
b) and somehow to copy/backup my bigger applications (CS3, Logic 8, etc) before doing a clean install and then migrating or copying them back to my computer, now running leopard, without any problems?
Is this possible? How? Will SuperDuper help me? WHat are my chances that the Adobe suite gets affected and I have to reinstall everything? is there other possibility?
Thank you all for your comments...
jc
My main concern is this: I have Adobe CS3 Premium Design installed. I teach in a university, and they installed it for me as a professor using one of the university's licences. To do so, I had to take my 24'/2.4Ghz/4GB intel imac to the IT department, and leave it there until they have time to install - which means being 2-3 day without my computer, plus the risk of taking it out of my house, etc... I dont wanto to go through that again...
I'd like to do the upgrade, but I have read that a "clean upgrade" is the best way to go to avoid future problems. If so, or if there is any risk with the normal upgrade, this is my question:
So, ¿how can I...
a) have an application/bootable backup in case something goes wrong, to go back to Tiger and my apps as they are now and reinstall them...
b) and somehow to copy/backup my bigger applications (CS3, Logic 8, etc) before doing a clean install and then migrating or copying them back to my computer, now running leopard, without any problems?
Is this possible? How? Will SuperDuper help me? WHat are my chances that the Adobe suite gets affected and I have to reinstall everything? is there other possibility?
Thank you all for your comments...
jc