Poll: *** The Snow Leopard Thread - All Related Posts In Here ***
- Thread starter Conrad11
- Start date
Slighty OT but whenever I put my details in for the UTD I get to the basket and there is nothing in there - I bought my MBP from the apple online education store so am I missing a trick? Or should I contact apple support?
Soldato
- Joined
- 10 Oct 2006
- Posts
- 3,670
If you go through the link for bought at a Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore?&partNumber=MC204Z/A) and use the address from the top left of the invoice which is in Ireland it will let you order the upgrade online. I had the same problem with a Mac ordered through the Education Store but it went through fine using the address and serial number.
Last edited:
Legend! Thanks - don't know why they haven't put anything anywhere to explain that - there'll be a lot of people who bought macs online who won't be able to work out how to claim their UTD discs.
If I get Snow Leopard this week, I plan to do a clean install on my early 2008 MBP. I will probably do a time machine backup and then selectively restore apps and documents after the OS is installed.
Anyone know what to do re iTunes? When I did a clean install of Leopard I just backed up the whole iTunes folder, installed new OS, opened iTunes, closed iTunes, restored old iTunes folder, re-opened iTunes.
Anyone using the developer version of 10.6 and can verify if this works?
rp2000
Anyone know what to do re iTunes? When I did a clean install of Leopard I just backed up the whole iTunes folder, installed new OS, opened iTunes, closed iTunes, restored old iTunes folder, re-opened iTunes.
Anyone using the developer version of 10.6 and can verify if this works?
rp2000
rp, did that work fine previously in Leopard? I've always been a little worried about restoring the iTunes folder as had issues on Windows boxes e.t.c.
If you've not done anything odd with the locations then Time Machine will store it all.
I've restored iTunes from TM before for a fresh install.
iTunes stores it's stuff under specific directories so you could just back those up. You may need to play with the authorisation.
I've restored iTunes from TM before for a fresh install.
iTunes stores it's stuff under specific directories so you could just back those up. You may need to play with the authorisation.
Soldato
- Joined
- 28 Nov 2004
- Posts
- 16,024
- Location
- 9th Inner Circle
Naw it will be like the Leopard upgrade disk. It sees Tiger (or in the case of SL - Leopard) on the disk and does the install. You can even do an Erase and Install although they have moved it in Snow Leopard.
Orderd yesterday by the way!
Soldato
- Joined
- 28 Nov 2004
- Posts
- 16,024
- Location
- 9th Inner Circle
I restore my user folder from Time Machine. Re-install any apps (the settings are kept as I restored my user folder) and then copy my iTunes *back from an external disk (NAS in my case) rather than use Time Machine for the iTunes restore.
* Time Machine is set to exclude the iTune folder to save space on the Time Machine volume.
Yes. My MBP had Leopard, used it for 9 months, did the backup and re-installed form the DVDs. I think you have to open iTunes once on the new install, for it to generate some folders, and then you overwrite with your old folder form Time machine or any other backup. It retained all info including play counts of tracks.
Just drag back the iTunes folder form your Time Machine backup. To me this isn't a restore really as you are just copying a folder. You do not need Time Machine for this. Just copy your whole iTunes folder to the backup device/method of your choice, and copy back after installing SL. This is the best way to avoid copying back any crap from your old install and just getting your iTunes related stuff back.
rp2000
Quick Question.
On Safari if you are running a proxy server, you obviously had to put in your password which works fine however when your active directory password changes you have to currently go back in and change it. Where as on a Windows PC you can just change the password and it is all happy.
Any idea if they have addressed this issue once you have joined the Mac to Active Directory? I'm hoping that option just won't be there and it works seamlessly but somehow I doubt it.
Thanks
Velocity
On Safari if you are running a proxy server, you obviously had to put in your password which works fine however when your active directory password changes you have to currently go back in and change it. Where as on a Windows PC you can just change the password and it is all happy.
Any idea if they have addressed this issue once you have joined the Mac to Active Directory? I'm hoping that option just won't be there and it works seamlessly but somehow I doubt it.
Thanks
Velocity