Re: installing sl from scratch

2009-12-02 Thread anouk radix
Hello, Yes I guess this will be the cleanest way to do things. I have installed all these infovox voices and vo utility is getting really sluggish also I seem to have problemswith voicover at times/internet does not seem to work immediately if i start/come back from sleep and vo is slow if I com

Re: installing sl from scratch

2009-12-02 Thread Scott Howell
Anouk, First if you downloaded iWork and you have a license, you can redownload it if necessary as long as you have the license key. You probably could just copy the apps, but remember there are preference files etc. that if you setup, you will want to copy those as well. Being that I've done f

Re: installing SL server on a macbook

2009-11-02 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Yep, I looked a bit deeper, and that info was not relevant anymore. I am trying to find a way to open the boot.efi file, as i have found a reository of all mac model identifiers and their model names. Best --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message beca

RE: installing SL server on a macbook

2009-11-02 Thread Blake Sinnett
Actually, the Intel Macs use EFI (Extensible firmware interface.) The following is from Wikipedia: In January 2006, Apple Inc. shipped its first Intel-based Macintosh computers. These systems use EFI and the Framework instead of Open Firmware, which had been used on its previous PowerPC-ba

RE: installing sl server on macbook

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Ventura
Whew ... that's a scarry one. I would be nervous that mucking around with that would break too many things like power management and software updates. Though, your point about the Hackintoshes is well taken. Frank Ventura -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:m

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello May, I always do a clean install to keep things neat and tidy. If you do a Time Machine backup before the installation, you won't lose anything. Preferably, you should use an external hard drive for your Time Machine backup. Then eject the external disk. Shut down your machine. Then i

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, it will. Installing from scratch just avoids any weirdness that may or may not happen, but it probably won't happen. I'm just cautious about that myself. You can, however, save the e-mails to a separate file for import later after installation. 1) Select the messages you would lik

RE: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Frank Ventura
Hi when I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard I didn't bother to back up anything. I know that is really bad practice but it worked this time. I just ran the installer and it took about an hour. Frank -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of May McDonald S

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. All I did to install Snow Leopard is: 1. With Leopard running, put the Snow Leopard DVD in. 2. Run the application on the DVD that was called Install Mac OS 10 or something like that. 3. After the install was finished, the computer restarted. I didn't lose any of my applications, musi

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread May McDonald
If I install from scratch doesn't that errase my email settings as well? I want to keep the emails that I have saved. On 20-Oct-09, at 8:49 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi May, > > In case you haven't installed yet, I would recommend personally not to > upgrade it. It's the easiest way if y

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi May, In case you haven't installed yet, I would recommend personally not to upgrade it. It's the easiest way if you do prefer to keep all your settings and so-forth, but if you reformat by using Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard DVD, you can at least be sure you won't get any strange

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread Howard Dupuis
Here's what someone I trust to know such things once told me when I asked him a similar question: "You don't *need* to have backed up, unless something goes wrong, of course." I got his point. On Oct 20, 9:34 am, May McDonald wrote: > Good morning everyone.  I will be getting my copy of sl this

Re: installing sl

2009-10-20 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi May, If you have anything important that you want to keep, you should back it up regularly. If you are a caution to the wind type like me though and never keep a backup, you can still install snow leopard and you won't lose anything. I've done 3 or 4 of these now, and they all went wit