Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're right that it's not necessary, but isolating user data from the OS just strikes me as a good idea in general. And, as I pointed out, it lets you easily roll back to the old version of the OS without the loss of data that went into your account in the meantime. If, for example, you need a program that only runs properly under 10.5.8 but want to run Snow Leopard otherwise you can easily do it just by rebooting from another volume. It might be overkill for your basic user but as our software suites become more complex I'm thinking it's worth the effort. Adam On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote: > > If you have a cloned backup, and your drive is healthy as per the > utilities, that's not necessary. > > At 5:42 PM -0700 8/26/09, Adam Bridge wrote: >> >> If you can, I recommend moving your user accounts to a separate drive. >> this >> isolates all your crucial user data from the OS system drive. In Leopard >> (and Snow Leopard) it's straightforward although you need to use the >> command >> line "ditto" command to do the move. Once your own data is isolated from >> the >> system disk it's a whole lot nicer to make OS changes. Having a separate >> clone of your system disk allows for the old OS to simply be rolled in or >> out as needed. >> Adam >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at >> archiphoto.com>wrote: >> >>> ?Just a general reminder: >>> >>> ?Make sure a full backup on an external drive is up-to-date. >>> ?Run Diskwarrior or similar directory analyzing/repair software. >>> ?Run applejack or similar to clean caches, fix permissions etc. >>> ?Update computer. >>> >>> ? ? --no worry, no pain-- >>> >>> ?If some drivers or other software that is essential doesn't work or >>> cause >>> ?sproblems, you can immediately boot from the external and be running >>> again. >>> >>> ?Otherwise, you're home free. >>> >>> ?-- > > -- > > ? * ? ? ? ? ? ?Henning J. Wulff > ?/|\ ? ? ?Wulff Photography & Design > ?/###\ ? mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > ?|[ ]| ? ? http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information