MAC OS 10 upgrades: too much trouble?

[GaryLH]

Where time machine may help.. Depends on how far back the corruption happens.. Is to got back previous changes of a file and recover one that may not have been corrupted but ymmv on this philosophy.

Have multiple backups of your critical files is best strategy..

Gary

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Rob -- I upgrade my Apple Mac OS regularly and have transitioned to new machines multiple times. I have always had the photos right there, no problem. Apple's installers and migration software has been super.

I suggest:
- Time machine for automatic backups and ability to go back to earlier versions
- External hard disk periodically, via Carbon Copy Cloner, store off-site

 

[Axel]

I have Time Machine, which I believe is a proper backup. What I am saying is that after restoring via Time Machine, the little spinner wheel with the message "processing" within Aperture continued spinning every time I used Aperture, for several weeks. It's the kind of precessing that has to happen before the pictures look sharp, and in some cases right-side up.

I also lost a few shots in the process. There were empty dotted-line rectangles where pictures had been, but no longer were. So there was some price to pay, even with the Time Machine backup....

There must be a reason when apple changes your harddrive.
It is possible that some of your backup-files contained damaged
data from the former damaged harddrive.
sh*t happens... 😉

Like many others said before, normally there is no reason to do anything after an OS-update, regardless from which version, unless you are doing a clean installation.

20 years using Macs - no trouble with upgrades in my experience.

 

[frank-grumman]

Update and go 🙂 🙂

 

[rogue_designer]

I suggest:
- Time machine for automatic backups and ability to go back to earlier versions
- External hard disk periodically, via Carbon Copy Cloner, store off-site

This - a full backup, external and offsite. I have separate ones for client work.

 

[MichaelW]

Rob-F, if you're running "legacy" scanner software you may wish to check that the new OS X will support this.
Cheers,
David

Good point. Last year i went from Tiger on a pre-Intel Mac to Snow Leopard on a new Intel Macbook Pro. I spent a bit of time researching which of my existing software would still work on the new system as I didn't want to have to get all new software along with the computer. One thing I found out is that from Lion on, Mac no longer runs pre-Intel power PC software, whereas Snow Leopard can.