on 13/12/09 6:30 PM, Dark1 at da...@iinet.net.au wrote:
>
> Hi Neil
>
> There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most
> apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your
> backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these
> days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical
> failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to
> pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed.
Yes, I already have four 1TB external drives (more will no doubt eventually
follow). Primary back-up for all three partitions is a 1TB external firewire
drive with an identical partition scheme to the internal 1TB drive. Each
partition on the internal drive will be cloned to the corresponding
partition on the external drive - though, from a schedule point of view,
each partition will be separately cloned as required - depending on what I
have been working on. This will also be complemented with TM back-ups of
most of my stuff and I am also intending to incorporate some "cloud"
back-up/synch of some critical stuff.
>
> There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app
> that you have trouble running.
That's the plan. I've since found forum feedback that office 2004 WILL run
under SL - provided you address some issues(particularly some font conflicts
- so I have my fingers crossed here.
>
> I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a
> separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of
> Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups.
True, but since I clone the whole partition to let me get running again in
the event of disc failure or restore to another machine in the event of a
more major machine malfunction, new EyeTV recordings would significantly
increase the cloning time - so I like to keep these separate with separate
priorities and schedules (losing a few EyeTV recording would be annoying but
not a real big deal).
>
> In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function
> fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from
> 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files.
> You could always add a "10.5 Apps" folder to your Applications folder and copy
> your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL.
>
That's good to hear, I can probably live with a slight performance hit while
I am testing the apps. I have sometimes used the "old folder"/"new folder"
approach before when upgrading/migrating - however in this case I intend to
also re-organise my whole document/data filing system and my priority is
keeping track on what is "old" and what is "new/current" across multiple
folders in hierarchies sever levels deep - I decided that the best way to do
that was start with a fresh slate and just move things to my new system as
and when I wanted/needed/classified them.
> Hope this helps a bit
> Ruben
>
Thanks Ruben.
--
Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: n...@possumology.com
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just got a new 27"iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from
>> she-who-must-be-obeyed was "why do you need a new one - the old one is only
>> 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?!"
>>
>> Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows
>> machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had
>> crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24" iMac to her
>> (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we
>> visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently).
>>
>> So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all
>> my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and
>> system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch
>> with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate
>> everything from the old machine to the new machine).
>>
>> I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend
>> to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something
>> like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy
>> and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop &
>> laptop computer.
>>
>> I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a
>> whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3:
>> - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation.
>> - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24" iMac HD
>> - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra
>> partition to suit my back-up regime)
>>
>> As I saw it, I could then pass the 24"iMac on to the mother-in-law (as
>> everything was now on partition 2 of the 27" iMac) and slowly set-up the SL
>> partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27" from
>> partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings
>> just as they were on the 24" without any worry as to what was SL compliant.
>>
>> Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in
>> my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in
>> Leopard! - it seems to require SL!
>>
>> I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old
>> machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL
>> compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too
>> much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade
>> programs such as Parallels & Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office
>> where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed
>> off VBA and I use quite a few macros.
>>
>> However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering
>> was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to
>> run my old applications from their current location in the applications
>> folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an
>> interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if
>> necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps
>> folder on partition 1).
>>
>> The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually
>> transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents)
>> or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case
>> of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2.
>>
>> I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as
>> the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with
>> accessing the old user folders on partition 2
>>
>> When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a
>> second media partition.
>>
>> However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain
>> things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular
>> problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to
>> the new one?
>> --
>> Neil R. Houghton
>> Albany, Western Australia
>> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
>> Email: n...@possumology.com
>>
>>
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