When upgrading from Leopard to Yosemite, I did have to erase the disk because of some changes in the disk partitions. There was no warning from the installation until it was too late. ZI had to boot from recovery partition and then restore from time machine. I suggest you get Take Control of Upgrading to El Captain if this is your first Macintosh. Joe covers all the issues. j
Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 30, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Again, I state, you're on Snow Leopard, so, I'm not sure how the update > process will go, jumping from somethign that old. Backup, backup, and did I > mention, backup. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Moore" <bmo...@screenreview.org> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7:13 AM > Subject: Re: When Updating. > > >> no, while it is always good to do a backup, if upgrading a machine, it >> should not require you to reinstall all your programs. >> Brian. >> >> Contact me on skype: brian.moore >> follow me on twitter: >> http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 >> >>> On 30/09/2015 3:10 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote: >>> Since 10.11 is released today, I have a question about updating. >>> When updating will this earase all the programs a person has installed? >>> Will a person have to reinstall all their programs? >>> Or will your installed programs be untouched when updating the OSX version? >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
