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Lion upgrade from leopard

  • 11-10-2011 5:25pm
    #1
    DMG_49
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭


    Do you have to buy snow leopard to upgrade to lion from leopard?


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
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    No, you don't have to buy SL. Apple also sell Lion on a USB thumb drive for €60.

    However, you will have to do a clean install as Lion can only upgrade from Snow Leopard.


  • #3
    DMG_49
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭DMG_49


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    No, you don't have to buy SL. Apple also sell Lion on a USB thumb drive for €60.

    However, you will have to do a clean install as Lion can only upgrade from Snow Leopard.

    Thats it, I knew I would need snow leopard to upgrade.

    So...buy thumb drive or upgrade to snow leopard and then lion


  • #4
    Sad Professor
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    Doing a clean install is no hassle at all if you have a Time Machine backup. Once the install is finished, Migration Assistant will copy your apps and user account over so everything will be almost exactly as it was.


  • #5
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Sorry to hijack the thread but,

    if I backup with timemachine (if i do) can i wipe the drive, partition it and move everything back onto it and it will transfer everything back over?

    (specificaly dock layout, folder layouts, alias'd folders, scripts, bash/terminal settings etc)


  • #6
    Padgeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭Padgeman


    conor.hogan.2 wrote: »
    Sorry to hijack the thread but,

    if I backup with timemachine (if i do) can i wipe the drive, partition it and move everything back onto it and it will transfer everything back over?

    (specificaly dock layout, folder layouts, alias'd folders, scripts, bash/terminal settings etc)

    As far as I know, it restores *everything* to exactly the way it was. I've used Time Machine to restore a non-bootable Mac a few times, and it's always been exactly the way it was before hand, same wallpaper, dock layout, application settings, etc.


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  • #7
    reelkidmusic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭reelkidmusic


    conor.hogan.2 wrote: »
    Sorry to hijack the thread but,

    if I backup with timemachine (if i do) can i wipe the drive, partition it and move everything back onto it and it will transfer everything back over?

    (specificaly dock layout, folder layouts, alias'd folders, scripts, bash/terminal settings etc)

    Hi,

    I recently did this. I had a partition that I wanted to get rid of. It was no problem. Time machine backup saves everything but if you want to change partitions around it is no problem.


  • #8
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Cheers I must do this (and then root my phone finally) at christmas.


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