Re: Upgrade to OSX

[Tyrone Griffin]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Julian Allason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 18, 2006 5:28:32 PM EST To: "Emailer Talk" <emailer-talk@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade to OSX Yes, I would endorse Lew's recommendation of 'Take Control of Upgrading  to Tiger' - but with a caveat. One of the options (and which you might be tempted by, Tannis, given your  mention of a small hard disk) is Erase & Install. This has brought a  number of people to grief, not least because it can leave you without OS9  and thus no Classic mode under which to run Emailer. This is or was (they  are good at updating these e-books) the least well documented of the  options. My strong advice would be not to go the Erase & Install route  unless you are feeling very confidant and are fully backed up onto a  bootable drive. Having executed several of these the standard upgrade has worked fine  each time and my dealer reports the same. All fairly painless. If you do need to conserve disk space perhaps it would be worth archiving  what you dont actually need for future operations? There are utilities  out there that identify duplicate and orphan files and so on but the  space savings  tend not to be great and they have been known to junk  important files. I get more savings by deleting large unwanted files from  Emailer's Downloads folder (select display by size to do this). Julian I recently lost a hard drive in my 9 month old iMac and lost about a month's worth of stuff (hadn't backed up in that long since my externl drive was 40 gb smaller than the internal).  I finally broke down and got an external  drive for $80 that's the same size as my internal and now I clone my internal drive about every 3 days.  When I upgraded from my iBook, I used the migration manager and it was flawless. When I got my iMac and new empty hard drive (thank Heavens for AppleCare), I did a migration from the last clone. I did lose a few things, but not as much as I would have had I not cloned the drive.  My point is that I have the external clone that is bootable.  If I get a new machine (possibly Intel iMac), I'll just do a migration from the external. This is a whole lot easier than moving files one at a time. =