Hi Wammuggers, I just wanted clear up possible confusion for anyone else who happens to casually read this thread and might get the impression that the upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion is a difficult move. The standard upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion is dead easy and works very well for most situation. Just follow a slightly modified version of Ronni's normal steps for an upgrade:
1. Download the Lion OS X 10.7 upgrade app from the Mac App Store. 2. Backup your system -- use Time Machine and / or a bootable clone to an external disk. 3. Repair permissions before the upgrade. 4. Turn off Time Machine in System Preferences. 5. Unmount and disconnect any external USB and firewire drives. 6. Run the Lion OS X 10.7 upgrade app and apply it to your OS X10.6 (or earlier) install. 7. Repair permissions again. 8. Run Software Update to get any upgrades to apps or point releases of the operating system. 9. Reconnect your backup drive. 10. Turn on Time Machine in System Preferences and complete a backup. (Optionally make another clone to a different external drive -- I did). And that's it! If as in Peter's case you want to trim down your apps you can do this before or after the upgrade -- just remember to get a backup before you start deleting stuff incase you go one step to far. :-) Peter on rethinking your situation, I think this would be the easiest path for you as well. You might also take the opportunity do go through your data files, movies, photos and songs and delete duplicates and unwanted relics. Cheers, Carlo With thanks to Ronni who's canonical upgrade steps I paraphrased above. On 2011-08-12, at 21:35, cm wrote: > Hi again Peter, > > Sorry for the delay, but here is a fuller account of some options for you... > > I just now reread your original post of this thread. You have a thorough > backup regimen and are therefore in an excellent position to get exactly the > configuration you want. You could if you like buy Lion now and do some > experimenting to see the path you would like to take. You will get Lion > 10.7.2 as a free update of the current version in any case. > > Here is how you can go about with a few experiments. It is similar to the > path suggested earlier for an upgrade except that you do it to an external > drive rather than your internal drive. > > 1) Go to the Mac App Store and buy a copy of OS X 10.7 Lion. If it prompts > you to upgrade just hit Cancel and close the app. > 2) At this point, backup you system to an eternal drive, put it aside ,and > leave it untouched from here on. Also make sure your Time Machine backup is > up to date. > > You are unlikely to need to use either backup but the very reason we make > backups is to cover unlikely or unexpected situation -- or dare I say it, > absolute blunders. :-) > > > Experiment one (easy): Direct upgrade keeping all apps and settings. I know > you said you would like to start afresh, but this is by far the option that > entails the least amount of work. Give it a try and if you are happy with the > result there is no need to go further > > 1) Using Super Duper make a clone of you OS X 10.6 system to an external > drive. (A different drive to you safe backup mentioned above) > 2) Run the OS X 10.7 Lion app and tell it to install to the external drive. > > This will upgrade you 10.6 installation to 10.7. You can then boot to the > external drive by rebooting with the option key held down. Try out Lion and > see what you think. > > Experiment two (medium difficulty): Clean install of Lion using Migration > Assistant. > 1) Attach a freshly formatted or freshly erased external drive. You can reuse > the drive from experiment one -- just run Disk Utility and erase its contents. > 2) Run the OS X 10.7 Lion app and tell it to install to the external drive. > During the install the migration assistant will ask you if you want to port > data and apps from another Mac or a Windows PC. > > Have a look at Daniel's post earlier in this thread. If you want to reinstall > only all you apps an leave out the cruft, port across only your email and > data. You will then have a clean Lion install with all your data but no apps. > > This is the option I took. A word of warning, your iLife Apps are not ported > across. You will need either to do without them or purchase them from the Mac > App Store. If you haver purchased a new Mac that is already running Lion, the > purchase include the purchase of the iLife Apps from the App Store and you > can thus re-download them for free to you current computer. > > Experiment three (hard): Clean install of Lion with no migration of data or > apps > > Proceed as in experiment two but when given the option to migrate data or > apps select "not now". > > This gives you a bare Lion install with no trace of your current data or > apps. You need to port across you contacts, calendars, email settings, Safari > bookmarks, iTunes music, and word processing files. > > --- end of experiments --- > > Believe it or not, once iCloud is introduced later this year, experiment > three will also be easy. We will be able to store our contacts, and calendars > to the cloud. Also you will be able to freshly download all of you iTunes > purchase -- one can already re-download apps purchased from the Mac App > Store. Finally from within Apples iWork sweet (and from any other app that > chooses to take advantage of iCloud like Microsoft Office) you can choose to > save any document in iCloud and thus access it from any computer logged on > with your Apple ID. > > So you have many options to try out if you choose. If you are overwhelmed > with choice just go for experiment two. :-) > > Cheers, > Carlo > > > > > > > On 2011-08-12, at 07:18, Peter Sealy wrote: > >> Thanks Daniel and Carlo. Some food for thought there. I notice from the web >> that Lion 10.7.2 is in beta testing so I think I shall wait for that to come >> on stream before committing. >> >> Carlo are you yet able to add to your post. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> On 10/08/2011, at 4:53 PM, Peter Sealy wrote: >> >>> I would much appreciate some advice on my proposal to clean install Lion. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Peter Sealy >> Thurgoona AUSTRALIA >> >> After you have entered the amount ignoring the decimal point press 'hash' to >> order your marijuana. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
