So, it all seems to have been very well worth doing. And a lot of other things are just a bit snappier (or is that imagination?). The little glitches I knew about have disappeared. Everything is working again now just fine. Since you can QuickLook at Word documents, I think I can probably even manage without Open Office.)
(If I find I actually need anything else, I’ll reinstall it from the backup, as and when. Downloaded the latest versions of NoteBook, DevonThink Pro and SuperDuper (the three bits of non-Apple software I’ve bought and still make serious use of), and then the free TextWrangler, Camino and Skype.Īnd that’s about it, apart from syncing with my iPod. Installed the latest MacTeX LaTeX distribution. Copied back the main documents folder - which was in any case in a reasonably tidy state - and the iPhoto library. Moved back Safari bookmarks, address book, calendars (the mail lives on me.com anyway). So I archived calendars and address book, made a backup of the whole drive (a second proper clone, not a TimeMachine archive), did an erase-and-install for Leopard, and ran the system updates. So yesterday I thought the time had perhaps come to clean things up and get back to basics. And unlike the others, this bug was more seriously annoying. But the newest glitch was the new MobileMe sync service just not recognizing the laptop. some DevonThink scripts not working, Skype always forgetting my account details, a newsreader never quitting gracefully, and so on - you know, the sort of thing you decide you can live with after you’ve spent the first hour failing to sort it). And there was a growing number of small glitches (at the level of e.g. Still, there was a lot of legacy software cluttering up my laptop, loads of ancient files buried in the Library, even bits and pieces of OS 9 stuff, and it wasn’t always clear what could and couldn’t be trashed. And, all credit to Apple, the easy option has worked just fine. But, for what it is worth …įor years, I’ve taken the easy option and just installed one version of Mac OS on top of another, and migrated files from one computer to another.
This will only be of interest to (a few) other Mac users.
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