• Adobe After Effects

  Quick question on upgrading to Leopard…

  Posted by Chris Pass on March 15, 2008 at 5:44 am

  I’ve heard all sorts of horror stories about upgrading to leopard and about CS3 compatibility and overall leopard problems.

  I run Maya 8.5, Adobe CS3, and am really wanting to get to leopard for bootcamp so i can run Z Brush in XP.

  Should I be ok to do a normal OS upgrade? or do I need to do a clean install like some people have told me?

  Any help?

  Ken Latman replied 18 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Lars Bunch

  March 15, 2008 at 2:51 pm

  Hi,

  I don’t know about Maya (my version 6.5 won’t run on Leopard) but I haven’t had a problem with CS3 on either a laptop that was upgraded from 10.4 or on a MacPro with a clean install. I waited until 10.2, Adobe’s Leopard specific upgrades and the whole quicktime fiasco were over before upgrading, but in my experience, at this point, it’s okay to upgrade.

  Lars
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  Matt Riley

  March 16, 2008 at 2:35 am

  I almost always recommend doing an archive and install rather than a straight upgrade. In the case of cs3 apps, you should be all set with no reinstallation of the suite necessary.

  Doing an A&I gives you a clean system while preserving your user and network settings and also keeping your application installs intact (save for some instances).

  -Matt
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  Ken Latman

  March 17, 2008 at 12:26 am

  I found that after the 10.5.2 update my system was more stable with AE. It also resolved my Nucleo Pro failure issue.

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