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Installing Panther - Stupid Question but HELP!
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Hi all friendly people,
Have a Power Mac currently got OSX but running in 9.2 as I had so many problems with OSX.
Anyway, I have decided to upgrade to Panther and need to know:
Do I need to back up all my files, like all my work before I upgrade?
I've got about 15Gb saved in my folders.
What about fonts? Do they stay or do I need to save them and re-load them later?
Any help and tips you could give me would be most appreciated.
Thank you!
/Vikinggirl
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Originally posted by vikinggirl:
Do I need to back up all my files, like all my work before I upgrade?
I've got about 15Gb saved in my folders.
Installing Panther does not erase your existing files (unless you instruct the installer to do so).
Nevertheless, it's always good to have a backup.
What about fonts? Do they stay or do I need to save them and re-load them later?
The fonts stay in your Classic System Folder's Fonts folder. I think OS X uses them automatically. If not you could always copy them to /Library/Fonts/.
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burning to CD's, or how does people back up these days?
I am a bit lost...sorry 
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I back up to an external hard disk, and once a month I burn to CD.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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Find a cheap external FW hard drive to back up to. 15GB will be over 20 CDs to burn to. You don't say which machine you have, but if you have a tower, you could install another internal drive which would be cheaper.
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Install means backup
Use any external HD, iPod or even DVDR
Panther has an option not to erase but...
For later, spilt your disk in 2 and put your files on the second part... much easier to reinstall 
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i've got a Power Mac, G4 I think...
they've ordered me a 200Gb firewire external harddrive. hopefully that works.
thanks for all your advice
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