Tiger Upgrade Advise

[Burt Hazard]

With FCP, it’s always better to let other people be the testers and make sure there are no issues between FCP and a new Mac OS (unless you want to be one of the brave ones!).

I’m only buying the Tiger upgrade tomorrow at an Apple store to get in on the supposed Powerbook and iPod raffle they’re gonna have.

[Keith Hill]

Craig,

Let me be sure I understand how this would work. I get an external drive like a G-RAID or whatever. I then select from my desktop the MAC HD and duplicate it then paste it to the new external drive and everything on the MAC HD will be copied to the the external? Or, is there a more definitive procedure I would need to follow.

My apologies, I’m not a systems guy. I’m used to plug and play in setup.

Keith Hill
https://www.LightedPath.biz
Dallas, TX
FCP HD (v4.5), Combustion 3 (v3.0.4), DVD StudioPro3 (v 3.0.2) all on a MAC G5 (v10.3.8) 2Ghz PowerPC

[David]

you need CCC – you can’t just “copy” your HD….

[Keith Hill]

What IS CCC?

Keith Hill
https://www.LightedPath.biz
Dallas, TX
FCP HD (v4.5), Combustion 3 (v3.0.4), DVD StudioPro3 (v 3.0.2) all on a MAC G5 (v10.3.9) 2Ghz PowerPC

[David]

read (and the link):

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/ccc_boot_drive.html

[Keith Hill]

Excellent. I will. Thanks again

Keith Hill
https://www.LightedPath.biz
Dallas, TX
FCP HD (v4.5), Combustion 3 (v3.0.4), DVD StudioPro3 (v 3.0.2) all on a MAC G5 (v10.3.9) 2Ghz PowerPC

[Mitchji]

Hi Keith,

You shoud follow the backup advice. Every once in while there is a thread by someone with a perfectly working system who had it go south with an upgrade and sometimes they spend days getting it back. All you need is a spare partition a little bigger than your boot partition. A few dollars of hard drive space and an hour of copying and testing is cheap insurance. You can use the Restore tab in Disk Utility (free), CCC or SuperDuper to clone the partition.

I would wait until you KNOW that all the applications you need work under Tiger and wait for the major bugs to be uncovered. Do you really want to be an unpaid beta tester for Apple? By the time everything you use is known to work Tiger will probably be at 10.4.2 or 10.4.3 and it will be safe to jump in.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

If you think a back up is not a good idea check this thread above:

[Keith Hill]

Thank you, Mitch. And, everyone who chimed in on this thread. I do plan to take all of the advice outlined. I’ll probably upgrade to Final Cut Studio on this v10.3.9 and sit still until everything shakes out.

I’ve got to buy all of this (drvies and all) anyway. I’m sure this thread has helped other as well. I hope.

Macfixit put this out today as well: https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050429000534549

Keith Hill
https://www.LightedPath.biz
Dallas, TX
FCP HD (v4.5), Combustion 3 (v3.0.4), DVD StudioPro3 (v 3.0.2) all on a MAC G5 (v10.3.9) 2Ghz PowerPC

[Mitchji]

Hi Keith,

Macfixit recommends similar (repair the drive, fix perms) steps for the dot (10.3.x to 10.3.+). I’m not sure if they recommend backups for those more minor updates but I do.

One additional step they recommend for the dot updates is downloading and running the “combo” installer. They have found that running the combo often fixes problems caused by running the non combo updates.

Best Wishes,

Mitch