OK, I purchased the new Apple OS Snow Leopard the other week as we were going through Duty Free at the Airport, so I saved a couple of pounds or about $5 (and every penny saved is a good thing in these times of financial issues).
Anyway, yesterday I wanted to install my all new OS to my iMac.
But first I had to sort out a backup of my system to be on the safe side.
So I visited the Apple Store and bought a Western Digital 500Gb My Book External Hard Drive. I set this up and ran the software that came with it. This was easy and the hard drive made a backup of my user account and all the data, ....simple. I did not use Time Machine.
Then I went ahead and put in the Snow Leopard dvd and ran the install......
It worked OK and took around 40 minutes to do it all.
So the result:
No data loss and Snow Leopard has appeared to load all OK.
Issues?....
Yes, my printer would not work! After reinstalling the drivers to no effect I was a bit worried. I did a search online as my printer is only a few months old and is a new model from Epson, the results from google showed me a forum that had such a previous issue for another user and had the answer. I went into system preferences and removed the printer, then added it back as a new printer, having to tell it which drivers to use but after that it worked!
iPhoto: I installed an update for this earlier in the month, I think, and since then I have had an issue with it, while under Leopard and before the Snow Leopard install. It failed to recognise my Nikon when we came back from Portugal last week and I also tried to delete some 'Events' to clean it up before doing my backup but it 'hung'. So it still hangs now when I open it in Snow Leopard, so unless anyone has a solution they can share with me, I am going to call Apple Care and see if they can help me out?
Overall, the Snow Leopard install was OK apart from the Printer issue but that was a minor thing.
3 comments:
Lol on the espon printer part. I have heard before they are slow on updating their drivers.
But I'm glad upgrade went well. I too need to get a back up hard drive. I'm kinda want one that has firewire connection. My understanding that's faster than a usb one. I think it's Western Digital My studio has that one. Maybe next week I'll go to Staples and get it.
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Took a while for my Epson to work properly, had to install Rosetta and they still haven't a new driver. Works fine under Rosetta though.
I had problems with iPhoto - saved my library and reinstalled from scratch - works fine now.
THe boot speed of Snow Leopard is stunning - whoosh !!
I've just bought my first Mac, Steve. It's the new 13in Macbook Pro and I'm looking forward to setting it all up. It certainly seems user friendly. Will let you know how I get on with it.
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