Poll: *** The Snow Leopard Thread - All Related Posts In Here ***

Are you going to upgrade to Snow Leopard?

  • Yes indeedy, that I am.

    Votes: 236 85.2%

  • No sir, not a chance.

    Votes: 41 14.8%
  • Total voters
    277
Can anyone tell me what happens with the time machine back up when someone went from 10.5 to 10.6 using erase and install?

I don't really want to have to erase the time machine backup AGAIN. :(

And I won't get it until Monday because of the sodding holiday! :(
 
Is anyone else incredibly disappointed with snow leopard ? , since i upgraded yesterday i can honestly say i have not noticed any of the enhancements, the one thing i was looking forward to using is the addition of exchange support, i can get it working perfectly on my iphone but in mail its just not working.
 
My time machine backup has carried on flawlessly, it will happily let me go back and recover files from before the upgrade. :)

Im also quite disappointed, I too have noticed new besides Expose is now better than it was before... And Parallels 3 doesnt work in 64bit mode. :(
 
Concorde Rules said:
Can anyone tell me what happens with the time machine back up when someone went from 10.5 to 10.6 using erase and install?

I don't really want to have to erase the time machine backup AGAIN. :(

And I won't get it until Monday because of the sodding holiday! :(
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It sees the old Time machine disk as a "normal" Orange USB disk icon. This even happened when I reinstalled 10.5 cleanly with 10.5. Unless I am doing something wrong the Time machine is linked to your install, or maybe linked to it if you do a restore from it during installation of OS X.

It asks you if you want to use it as a Time Machine volume, but I said No as I assume it will zap the disk.
Darryn said:
My time machine backup has carried on flawlessly, it will happily let me go back and recover files from before the upgrade. :)
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Can you describe your upgrade/reinstall process? I want to use the old 10.5 time machine to continue backing 10.6 up and keep the old backup son it. I plugged it in to grab back some files, selectively, and it just shows as a normal Orange disk icon.


rp2000
 
Phil Gr said:
Is anyone else incredibly disappointed with snow leopard ? , since i upgraded yesterday i can honestly say i have not noticed any of the enhancements, the one thing i was looking forward to using is the addition of exchange support, i can get it working perfectly on my iphone but in mail its just not working.
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iPhone uses ActiveSync, Mail requires an Exchange 2007 server - which are different back end technologies.

I can't get it working either - I suspect mail requires access to the actual exchange server which requires me to be on the LAN. I can get OWA access outside the LAN which means Entourage works fine.
 
I've read that OnyX is not compatible with Snow Leopard, can another suggest something similar (clean temp files, cache etc)
 
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Another nice change I've noticed is the name of the screen captures is now:

Screen shot 2009-08-30 at 18.54.43

Instead of

Picture X
 
Phil Gr said:
Is anyone else incredibly disappointed with snow leopard ? , since i upgraded yesterday i can honestly say i have not noticed any of the enhancements, the one thing i was looking forward to using is the addition of exchange support, i can get it working perfectly on my iphone but in mail its just not working.
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For £25 (for Leopard owners anyway) it's hard to feel disappointed, especially as everyone already knew it wasn't going to be a huge leap forward for the OS. And if you're upgrading from Tiger, you're getting all the enhancements from Leopard as well.

So far I'm enjoying the scroll that has been added in Safari when you use the Home or End keys, instead of just snapping to the top. The layout in expose is better and expose on the dock for each application is a very nice addition. Minimising applications into their icons is definitely worth £25 on it's own. And for my tiny hard drive the same I've saved is very useful.

I'm sure I'll find other things useful and I've definitely spent £25 on worse things than this.
 
rp2000 said:
Can you describe your upgrade/reinstall process? I want to use the old 10.5 time machine to continue backing 10.6 up and keep the old backup son it. I plugged it in to grab back some files, selectively, and it just shows as a normal Orange disk icon.
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My install just connected to my Time Machine backup (on an AirDisk connected to an Airport Extreme) and continued as normal. I can see all my backups going back in time to the point where it has dropped the older backups.


I did not do anything special other than restore my user settings after a fresh install of Snow Leopard (at the bit where the Migration Assistant asks you)
 
Phil Gr said:
Is anyone else incredibly disappointed with snow leopard ? , since i upgraded yesterday i can honestly say i have not noticed any of the enhancements, the one thing i was looking forward to using is the addition of exchange support, i can get it working perfectly on my iphone but in mail its just not working.
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Nope. So far it is faster and more stable. I'm loving the new Expose and the speed increase in Safari 4 is more than welcome.

A good £25 spent if you ask me and provides Apple with a very sound base to build all the Whiz Bang features into 10.7 *boom*

Going to try out Exchange support when I get back to work. I guess I'll need to setup a VPN* for it to work away from there though.






* Actually I'll need to complete the Exchange 2007 migration first! :p :D
 
rp2000 said:
It sees the old Time machine disk as a "normal" Orange USB disk icon. This even happened when I reinstalled 10.5 cleanly with 10.5. Unless I am doing something wrong the Time machine is linked to your install, or maybe linked to it if you do a restore from it during installation of OS X.

It asks you if you want to use it as a Time Machine volume, but I said No as I assume it will zap the disk.

Can you describe your upgrade/reinstall process? I want to use the old 10.5 time machine to continue backing 10.6 up and keep the old backup son it. I plugged it in to grab back some files, selectively, and it just shows as a normal Orange disk icon.


rp2000
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The same with me, then i opened "time machine preferences", select disk..., choose the orange "old time machine disk" and turned on Time Machine, it did its job, didnt delete any old data and is now working fine... First backup did take a big longer than normal though.
 
wush said:
Have you tried the "screen recording" to video?

That sounds cool for a built-in feature.
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I have indeed, works really well. Nothing overly fancy as you would expect but having the ability plus iMovie is certainly useful.

The likes of ScreenFlow and Camtasia will have their work cut out to not become obsolete.
 
LordSplodge said:
My install just connected to my Time Machine backup (on an AirDisk connected to an Airport Extreme) and continued as normal. I can see all my backups going back in time to the point where it has dropped the older backups.


I did not do anything special other than restore my user settings after a fresh install of Snow Leopard (at the bit where the Migration Assistant asks you)
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That is why, I think. I did not use the Migration Assistant. I did not connect mine (normal USB disk) till after the complete installation. I am guessing that Migration Assistant "re-links" it to your new installation.

Am I right in thinking any disk that shows in Orange would be formatted before they can be used as a Time Machine disk?

Edit: Did the migration assistant let you selectively pull back folders, if so I will use that option next time, I only wanted my Music, Pictures and Documents folders restoring.

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Darryn said:
The same with me, then i opened "time machine preferences", select disk..., choose the orange "old time machine disk" and turned on Time Machine, it did its job, didn't delete any old data and is now working fine... First backup did take a big longer than normal though.
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Ta, I am gonna plug in mine now, I like the idea of being able to still restore some files that I left off 10.5 (certain apps have not been copied back as I am not sure I need them, yet).


rp2000
 
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I just turned off Time Machine before I upgraded and then turned it on again after, didn't need to reselect drives or anything like that.
 
Slogan said:
I have indeed, works really well. Nothing overly fancy as you would expect but having the ability plus iMovie is certainly useful.

The likes of ScreenFlow and Camtasia will have their work cut out to not become obsolete.
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What? Have I missed something here? I currently use ScreenFlow but if support is in the OS I may give it a spin.

where do I find this?
 
Well I'm back *waves*.

I've been messing around with CandyBar etc getting everything set up the way I want it.
All looking and feeling good here. Nothing ground breaking but I wasn't expecting it to be. It's just 'nice' and it's good to have a clean install. Everything is feeling very snappy.

Panzer
 
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