Re: Upgrading to OS X Leopard

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Hi JediMaster,

Leopard offers several different upgrade mechanisms.

Erase and install wipes everything from your hard drive, then installs
Leopard MacOSX. I'd only do this if I thought I had a hopeless hard drive
that needed a fresh start from scratch.

Upgrade and install is fast and easy.

Archive and install does the same, but keeps a copy of your old system for
the cautious types who want to compare everything.

Another option is to create a disc image of the Tiger machine and save it to
an external hard drive. Then do an erase and install, and when the installer
asks you can restore all your files and applications from the disc image.
This is more complicated but can save a problem hard drive's files and
applications.

I always run DiskWarrior before doing Leopard installs.

You will find that some applications will need to be updated to run in
Leopard. I would go through my applications before doing the Leopard update
and make sure I have the latest versions of each (especially Adobe, any
haxies and Parallels products),

-Jim



Quoting from "JediMaster445@xxxxxxxxx" <JediMaster445@xxxxxxxxx>, in article
1193916897.320392.92600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, on [DATE:

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

Thanks.


--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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