Re: FN-FORUM: RE: for the MAC guys

date posted 1st November 2003 13:32

Hey Luke, dknow but correct me if I'm wrong. It looks like it's more a case
of the external firewire drives being wiped when they are plugged into the
Panther upgraded machine regardless if they have a backup system or not,
some people just have their itunes library on the drives. The drives are not
recognised at all & then on investigation all the content has gone.
Looks purely like an Apple screw up.

On 1/11/03 12:54 pm, "Luke Perman" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> hmm.. i just upgraded my three Macs to panther and have had no
> problems whatsoever.
>
> every mac has retained it's users folder, system settings and
> application preferences...
>
> this looks more like a case of ppl messing about where they shouldn't -
> the most stupid thing to do is backup your files to an external hard
> drive and then replace with that once panther is installed.
>
> panther is a brand new system and uses a new system architecture,
> therefore the encoding of many files has changed, so when they are
> replaced from your backed up folders panther will not be able to
> recognize them properly.
>
> the ideal install / upgrade path is:
>
> 1) upgrade your existing system to panther using that upgrade option
> in the installer, selecting 'retain user settings'
> 2) if you want a fresh installation and not an upgrade, then do an
> 'archive and install' installation on your newly upgraded system
> this will create a brand new panther system, and archive your user
> folder (that are now encoded properly after running that first upgrade
> step)
> 3) you can then happily transfer back any personal data you need in the
> new system from the archive folder
>
>
> i really hate it when people blame computers for their own stupidity.
> the upgrade path i detailed above is very clearly explained in the
> panther installation!! (including the information about file
> enoding...)
>
> grrr!!
>
> luke
>
>
>
>
> On 1 Nov 2003, at 11:55, Paul J White wrote:
>
>>
>> Susan wrote:
>>
>>> You've probably seen this, but just in case, seems there is a problem
>>> when upgrading to Panther
>>> http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61031,00.html
>> Yes, saw it on another list - rather amused me after all the crowing
>> of the Mac crowd about reliability ;-)
>> But I'm not going there again...
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
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