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Re: Problems Installing Leopard? My Quick And Dirty Guide To Major Software Upgrades

DaFerret — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:28:08 -0000

With most of my "at home" stuff on my Macbook, it was a bit gutsy (stupid?) of me to go out and buy Leopard and install it without doing any reading online. So far, all of the programs I use on a regular basis works fine. Only flavor stuff, like Shapeshifter, do not currently work.

Oh and backup? That's why I bought Leopard and an accompanying external hard drive. hehehe

Re: Problems Installing Leopard? My Quick And Dirty Guide To Major Software Upgrades

papa — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:43:30 -0000

I just installed it on my MacBook Pro and prayed...which was probably foolish. Thankfully no real problems.

I guess the fact that my main word processor these days is Google Docs and so much of my data is stored online, I was less freaked out about losing critical data/apps.

I'll be more careful with the PowerMac desktop though -- fortunately I have an external hard drive that I can migrate all the essential files over to.

I haven't tried the updated version of bootcamp yet to see if my Windows install is working right though...

Re: Problems Installing Leopard? My Quick And Dirty Guide To Major Software Upgrades

Ross — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:56:26 -0000

I had minimal problems on my MacBook Pro. I did the 'upgrade' first - and of course backed up my precious music files first. The rest of the stuff I could survive without (that's totally not true, but I use Mozy to backup anything critical anyway).

It went fine, aside from ending out w/ two versions of X11 installed, and Gimp not working at all.

Then I decided oh what the hell, lets try the 'wipe it clean' update and did that the next day. Now I only have one version of X11 installed, and Gimp still doesn't work.

All in all, I'd have to say it went rather hassle free - and I had APE installed during the first 'upgrade' and it didn't bug-out anything. I would rate my experience(s) as "very smooth". Not perfect, but pretty close I suppose.