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I have a Macbook Pro with snow leopard, but today bought an imac 17inch intel core 2 duo which is running tiger 10.4.11 (old I know) (bought for my children) the seller was a genuine person and some of the programs on there are pretty decent and are not copies he bought the original programs.
Here is my question/problem ! Tomorrow I shall visit my local apple store to buy snow leopard so I can update the imac...I would like to keep the programs so I can either do a complete restore which would wipe the imac or run snow leopard to go over tiger thus keeping the programs, now if I want to do a complete restore how do I back up the programs to external hard drive ? Is this possible as I don't have the license !?!?
So mac geeks out there should I do a complete restore = loose everything
or
run it over tiger = keep programs
help please ??? many thanks in advance
You could always back up what you have now using time machine/carbon copy cloner to an external drive, install SL to the machine, so you have a clean install, then use the migration assistant to copy over your applications. That said, when i did it i still needed my product code for Office...
You could get Parallels or VMWare and install Snow Leopard using that, which will give you the option of having both OS open at the same time. When I upgraded my old G3 PowerBook to Leopard (10.5.8) from Jaguar, (10.2.8), I just installed it and hoped for the best. It installed fine, with no hiccups. There are advantages to having Parallels or VMWare on the machine, in that you can install any flavour of Windows you may have kicking around and use it for running legacy files or maybe games or OS specific apps, all at the same time. The Mac should be able to run a virtual machine with little loss of performance. I remember reading a review of Parallels Beta, installed on a Mac Mini, running OS9, OS X, Linux, Win95, Win2000, WinXT and some esoteric OS I'd never heard of, all at the same time. Unlike Bootcamp, you don't have to restart the Mac to use an alternative OS.
Just a thought...
thanks for tip re windows...cant stand windows ! Parallels was the 1st thing I took off !