Anyone upgrade instead of clean install Mountain Lion?

[Greg Jones]

I always do Clean installs when going from one OS to the Next. If it’s just an update such as 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 I’ll download a combo installer and update, but in years past when I haven’t done a clean install I always seem to run into issues. You could always make a clone of your system drive the way it is now, do a non clean update and if you have issues go back to your clone.

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[Dave Brandt]

I upgraded from 10.7 lion to 10.8 mountain lion and everything went super smooth. In the past I always did clean installs, but I thought I’d give it a shot this time.
It also fixed a few weird things that were happening on my 10.7
I have had absolutely no issues with any of the adobe software that was installed.
Only gotchas were from other software that was not mountain lion compatible (Boinx tv)

It was the easiest and cleanest os upgrade i have done to date

As you are upgrading from 10.6 there is no guarantee you will have the same success, but as previous poster suggested, clone your drive and then try it. If it works, great, you’ve saved some time, if not, well ….

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[Chris Borjis]

Right on. That’s what I’ll do.

Maybe someone that tried it from 10.6.8 can chime in just for the heck of it.

[Walter Biscardi]

If you have a Mac Pro just install another hardrive (they’re really cheap now) and do Mountain Lion install on that. That’s what we do with each OS upgrade. Install on a new drive and leave the old drive completely intact in case all heck breaks loose.

This also allows us to have a completely working system in a known state if we need to switch back for whatever reason.

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[Chris Borjis]

Just an fyi, I did a full back with carbon copy cloner to
another bootable drive in case.

Then I just install/upgraded my existing snow leopard install
with mountain lion.

Went smooth as can be.

No random beach balls or other funny stuff.

Saved 2 days of working doing a clean install.

I think apple has gotten better at the O/S upgrade process.