[Leica] Upgrading to Snow Leopard

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

If you have a cloned backup, and your drive is healthy as per the 
utilities, that's not necessary.

At 5:42 PM -0700 8/26/09, Adam Bridge wrote:
>If you can, I recommend moving your user accounts to a separate drive. this
>isolates all your crucial user data from the OS system drive. In Leopard
>(and Snow Leopard) it's straightforward although you need to use the command
>line "ditto" command to do the move. Once your own data is isolated from the
>system disk it's a whole lot nicer to make OS changes. Having a separate
>clone of your system disk allows for the old OS to simply be rolled in or
>out as needed.
>Adam
>
>On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Henning Wulff 
><henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote:
>
>>  Just a general reminder:
>>
>>  Make sure a full backup on an external drive is up-to-date.
>>  Run Diskwarrior or similar directory analyzing/repair software.
>>  Run applejack or similar to clean caches, fix permissions etc.
>>  Update computer.
>>
>>      --no worry, no pain--
>>
>>  If some drivers or other software that is essential doesn't work or cause
>>  sproblems, you can immediately boot from the external and be running 
>> again.
>>
>>  Otherwise, you're home free.
>>
>>  --

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