Hi Nickus, Just to add to CJ's comments, you can certainly just update your system to Snow Leopard. However, I usually take the precaution of cloning a bootable backup of my disk before any major upgrades, even though I've never experienced problems with this. Also, there may be some software that you have which is not updated for Snow Leopard, and this way you can always just connect your cloned backup drive and boot up to it, even with your new system loaded. (Just connect the drive and hold down the "Option" key when you boot your computer. VoiceOver won't speak at this point, but if you press the right or left arrow key before you press "Return", you'll be selecting the alternate drive as a boot device. If you just press "Return" (without arrowing around) your boot will start normally from your default drive, and VoiceOver starts speaking as soon as that starts.) You can download either Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software (which is free to download, but they suggest that you leave a donation, unless you are using this for a school or university) or the free trial version of SuperDuper! from Shirt Pocket Software to make a bootable clone on an external disk. (It does take a while to run, if you have a large, full disk to clone, but is a good precaution.) You can also use the cloned disk (or a connection to your original computer) to set up a new Mac (in a new operating system), by attaching the old device and running Migration Assistant (takes a little over an hour to bring everything over, but is fully automatic).
HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:14, CJ Daniel wrote: > Nicaus, > > My wife gave me her MacBook Pro a few months ago, because she had to go back > to Windows for work related reasons & because I was tired of paying the > upgrade fees for JAWS. The first thing I did, with out any real VoiceOver > experience, was upgrade the OS from Leopard to Snow Leopard, because of the > changes to the screen reader from one version to another. I say all of this > to point out how easy it really was. > > As for the upgrade vs. a fresh install, no problem. Just pick your pleasure > & away it goes. I mean in all the years I've been using computers--& that's > a lot, trust me--I've never had an easier time upgrading an OS. > > Hope this helps in your decision, > > CJ > > > On Apr 19, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Nickus de Vos wrote: > >> Hi people, I want to upgrade a mac pro from 10.5.8 to 10.6.7, So if I >> get the disc from the istore do I just update or do I have to do a >> fresh install? I want to just update if possible so that all my >> applications and data are still on the machine and in the same places. >> Is this upgrade process easy??? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
