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ulsanchris
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 Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: reinstalling mac osX |
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| when reinstalling tiger, if I chose the archive option does that preserve all my files. I would hate to lose all my photos and other files. |
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luvnpeas
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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I think erasing all your files only happens if you choose "Erase and Install."
Usually, Apple is pretty good about providing Help and "What's this?" buttons. Did you check Apple's own help system?
It's always a good idea to make a backup first. |
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the eye
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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It should archive all yor existing files and settings.
But, I would be safe and back up everything on a CD. At the very least back up impiortant files/photos, zip them, and keep them on you rsektop before doing an Archive Install.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120 |
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aarontendo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:48 am Post subject: |
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Yeah if you right-click on the drive you can preserve what's in it...
oh nevermind it's a mac!  |
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ulsanchris
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| Well, apple haters will love this, apple really fukked up their last update. If you haven't updated your computer lately don't do it now. I tried to update mine yesterday and the update caused my macbook to crash. It only opens to a grey screen and does nothing else. I don't have the option of backing up my files. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| aarontendo wrote: |
Yeah if you right-click on the drive you can preserve what's in it...
oh nevermind it's a mac! |
Hmm. That would be funny if it were true. My mac is perfectly capable of doing just what you described.
Hey, if i wanted to, i could program my own shortcut, too. I bet you though you were special.
I hate most shortcuts, though. I rarely use them. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| well I reinstalled OSX with the archive option. It saved all my files. I felt that my HD was a little too full so I saved the important files and did a clean install. updated all the software. continued to work fine after that thankfully. then I went about reinstalling all my programs. That took quit a long time. I downloaded some larger programs with my windows computer using Utorrent and then using and SD card to transfer them and then install them. Now my macbook is working well once again. |
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demaratus
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Location: Searching for a heart of gold, and I'm gettin' old
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| ulsanchris wrote: |
| Well, apple haters will love this, apple really fukked up their last update. If you haven't updated your computer lately don't do it now. I tried to update mine yesterday and the update caused my macbook to crash. It only opens to a grey screen and does nothing else. I don't have the option of backing up my files. |
This has already been fixed, so the haters can suck on that, lol. This has happened a few times though, Apple f'ing something up with an update that is. |
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demaratus
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh and to address your issue, when you do an archive and install preserving, your files will be saved in a folder called previous system located in your home folder. the archive and install differs from an erase and install in that it allows you to backup your files and if desired preserve user and network settings while reinstalling the OS and software. So yes your files would still be there. |
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ulsanchris
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| That should never happen. Image how people would go on if that happened on windows. The poo would hit the fan. I guess apple can get away with it since they only have a small portion of the market share. |
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demaratus
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| ulsanchris wrote: |
| That should never happen. Image how people would go on if that happened on windows. The poo would hit the fan. I guess apple can get away with it since they only have a small portion of the market share. |
It has happened with windows a lot, and the poo hits the fan hard especially for businesses losing their productivity because of these things. If you don't believe me ask any IT person, heck ask any IT person about how much fun it was to incorpeate their old systems and business machines into a Vista environment. MS generally doesn't have a real fix in 2 days like Apple does as well. Not hating on MS, hell I am thinking of installing vista on my Mac as an upgrade from Xp ( I just upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and am loving it as well!). |
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