[Ham-Mac] OT: upgrading to Lion

[dalej]

You mean Lion doesn't include iPhoto??  Does it have to be bought?  

The more I am hearing about 10.7 the less I want to switch over.  I think I'll stay with 10.6.

73
Dale, k9vuj



On 10, Dec 2011, at 13:01, Stephen Prior wrote:

> Many thanks to both N2ERN and KD7CAC for their comments.  I had no idea
> that superduper was so powerful, in fact I'm backing up the Macbook as I
> type.  There are some advantages to the superduper approach to upgrading
> the Mini since I have more recent versions of Adobe CS on the MB compared
> with the Mini and I can see that cloning would be useful in that respect.
> However, because I have so much else on the Mini, I have developed cold
> feet about the change.  I have thousands of photos on the external drive
> tied into iphoto and iphoto doesn't even come with Lion.  I have a large
> itunes library also on the external drive, and I know I got into trouble
> some years ago when I moved from a G4 mini to the Intel and ended up in a
> real mess, with duplicate files everywhere.  And then there are my many
> thousands of saved emails, many of them with 'lifesaving' information in
> them, passwords, attachments and so on.  I know that I can export my
> Outlook files to the external drive but again I get stressy about it!!
> 
> Dennis' suggestion certainly appears quite straightforward but I had read
> that people were having trouble with the migration assistant going from
> Snow L to Lion, I seem to remember that it might have been to do with the
> lack of iphoto in Lion, but I could always buy that - it's not dear.
> 
> On balance, for me, the latter approach is probably going to be better.  A
> question though, since part of the reason for doing this is to de-clutter
> and make leaner my OS, if I simply use migration assistant to pull back my
> applications and data from Time Machine, will I not pull back all the
> stuff that I believe is slowing my machine down now?  By which I mean
> applications that I have deleted which perhaps have left bits behind, and
> so on?  If not, then my next job before my final Time Machine backup
> should be to uninstall/drag to the bin all the applications I don't use.
> 
> I know I'm making it all sound rather a matter of life and death, and I
> know it's not.  I just hope not to foul up and end up either losing
> something permanently or spend hour upon hour manually sorting stuff out.
> 
> I've now read that with 2GB of RAM and a 2GHz dual core, Lion runs too
> slowly and it's not possible to run more than 2GB in the Mini.  When I
> upgraded the MB to Lion I added another couple of gigs to make it 4GB and
> I find little difference in speed compared with when it was running Snow
> Leopard. So am I doing the right thing? Maybe I should be wiping the Mini
> and restoring Snow Leopard!
> 
> Sadly, a new, faster Mac is out of the question now I have Elecraft's new
> KX3 in my sights!!
> 
> Thanks gents for making me think so hard about what I want to do, and the
> way to do it,I'm most grateful!
> 
> 73, Stephen G4SJP
> 
> 
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