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Upgrading to Leopard?
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Hi,
I'm going to upgrade to Leopard soon, and I a question that I hope you guys can answer for me  . I just bought a new 20-inch iMac (standard, no upgrades) and I have it customized just the way I like it. However, I've seen on other forums that one has to uninstall their programs to upgrade. Is this true? Further, I've also seen others talk about an 'archive install'; could someone explain that to me?
Finally, what would you recommend I do to upgrade?
Thanks!
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a. no, you don't have to uninstall your apps.
b. archive-install installs a basically 'clean' system -- rather than replacing or overwriting System files, it installs fresh files while preserving your applications. You can also choose to preserve your user(s) and network settings. Archive install is a great way to avoid the headaches of an upgrade-install (believe me, if you read around the boards and at MacFixIt, you will see that the Leopard upgrade-install is causing a lot of issues. It's real.)
c. pre-upgrade, make a complete backup of your system. Use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your system to an external drive, that way if anything goes wrong, you have all of your stuff to restore your system.
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Latching on here, would an upgrade install remove any possibly damaged system files, or useless files that are still hanging around from my eMac (5 migrations ago? )
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How have you customized it? With 'haxies' from Unsanity and the like? Or just changing preferences built in to OS X?
The former will cause problems, the latter will not.
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Originally Posted by adamfishercox 
Latching on here, would an upgrade install remove any possibly damaged system files
Probably. It will replace system files when they are outdated, but not because it diagnoses them and finds them 'damaged'.
or useless files that are still hanging around from my eMac (5 migrations ago? )
It's not such a good idea to migrate from PPC to Intel. Other than that it mainly depends on what you did with your system. If it's clean and stable, there's no problem with updating. If you have OTOH encounter weird behavior - especially behavior that vanishes when you log in to a fresh user account - it's probably better you start with a clean slate.
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