I did an archive and install on my mini the first day Tiger came out. Things were pretty stable so I went ahead and did the same thing with my PB17. No problems either and I'm just…

Partitioning is a waste of time for 95% of OSX users.

Does anyone partition their drive in this day and age? Maybe I'm old school or something, but my 60GB laptop drive is in 3 partitions: Home (20GB), Scratch (5GB for PS), and Data (…

i cant get shapeshifter to work it says to do registration update and try it and says error. any fix?

Quote: Originally Posted by TerryJ After having a weird kernel panic issue after doing an Archive and Install of Tiger on my PowerBook 1.25, I found the culprit to be a bad memo…

Two possibilites: ->Either I am the most ignorant mac user on earth ->or Apple's automator lacks the option to create an app that perfom tasks on multiple applications I w…

After having a weird kernel panic issue after doing an Archive and Install of Tiger on my PowerBook 1.25, I found the culprit to be a bad memory stick with Apple Hardware Test. I p…

I've installed OSX in every single way since 10.0 and this was by far the easiest. I decided that I would zero the drive, so this is what I did. 1. Use CCC to clone my 10.3.9 ont…

I would venture to guess that the troublesome clone can be linked to CCC; check out the trouble-shooting section at the CCC Web site to see how things can go wrong because of minor…

Quote: Originally Posted by Mojo What did you use to create the clone? I had problems using CCC but none so far using SuperDuper!. Not trying to highjack the thread, but.…

vacation? what is this word you speak of? Tell me about it. I had to dig thru 10 boxes to find my photoshop disc. what saved me is that i have been very good in the last year abo…

What did you use to create the clone? I had problems using CCC but none so far using SuperDuper!.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mojo BTW SEkker, if you had had a clone of that Lombard somewhere other than that dead drive, you could have copied it back to the new drive and sav…

I am also dependent on my Macs, which is why I experimented on a "disposable" clone residing on an external drive. I was curious whether the basic upgrade option would work, and it…

I just want to point out that 'archive and install' is not the same as 'upgrade'. In the former, the installer disk installs a fresh OS -- and then takes your user files, network p…

In the past I would have gone to the trouble of doing a clean install, but at least in my case it doesn't seem necessary... Since I had a clone of Panther on an external drive I d…

Quote: Originally Posted by stevesnj Agreed..I have saved and then Zero'd my drives since 2000 on my Pismo from OS 9 to 10.0 and never will do an archive and install...the 45 e…

If only i had enough money to have both a good PC notebook and a powerbook... *sigh*

Finally got it to work with isync, just delete the device form the bluetooth list, the attempted to add a device with the wizard (selecting mobile phone device - had also done this…

Disk Utility

Quote: Originally Posted by osxisfun I am a BIG believer in starting from scratch with each new OS. I would bet that 90% of the problems people have in tiger are due to all the…

Quote: Originally Posted by Agent69 I wonder how many people do an archive and install without backing up first? Most People. It's scary how many people I know who do not h…

Well, if you want to play games get a PC, if you want productivity, stick with a powerbook. I have a gaming PC, and it plays games greatly and I got a powerbook, because I wanted …

Quote: Originally Posted by ibook_steve No, you don't. The CPU and main bus speed have absolutely nothing to do with which GPU you can use. Actually yes, (s)he have it rig…

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