thank you for the verification! I was quite sure that this would probably wind up being the case. this is one reason why I always tell people: back up back up back up! I cannot stress that enough! Back up!
i'm not sure what types of changes would have been made within your disk partition. Anyway, as I said… Definitely a good thing to know. Thanks. Chris. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2015, at 08:27, Jonathan C. Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
