Upgrading a safety clone to tiger

[00afro]

my main mail is .mac, the POP ones I can set to keep messages for a month on the server, so I should be ok

thanks a lot for your help

[dnanian]

OK. Be careful... remember that things you file in folders are going to be affected.

[dnanian]

(Folders for the POP accounts, of course: you can use the IMAP folders on .mac to store messages, and those'll be fine.)

[00afro]

or should that be RESULT! as we say in London when something works

i was able to very easily upgrade my safety clone to tiger and 10.4.1

so far, there have been a few issues with shared "stuff" - I've had to reinstall some things like my Wacom tablet driver/ my midi interface drivers/ my broadband modem drivers but this was all pretty straightforward. in most cases i didn't even have to d/l newer drivers, just re-install the old ones.

the new installs replace the aliased ones from the safety clone (which isn't anymore).

I will have issues with Audio Units which don't show up in the tiger install because they live in /Library/Audio (not the user Library) which don't seem to have made it into the clone or into tiger (or is this just that they don't show up because they are not compatible with tiger?).

I'm now considering re-installing previously shared apps one by one in the tiger install to make sure everything works ok

anyway ...this has allowed me to slowly test and migrate stuff from panther to tiger so THANKS for your help and definitely Thanks for SuperDuper!!

[dnanian]

Some -- usually very few -- applications don't like running if they're aliased: your three entries sound like three of them.

What I'd suggest is to create a new Safety Clone script, include the old one, and then just tell SuperDuper! to copy the three folders that aren't working when aliased. There's a description of this in the User's Guide.

Audio Units should *certainly* have been copied: we copy everything in /Library except for some Sync Services stuff, which is shared...

[00afro]

only a couple of the third party audio units i had in my ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components survived the install of tiger. It may be that the upgrade deleted all the non compatible ones? (I hadn't checked the safety clone when I made it to see if they had been cloned then)

the same goes for all the other plugin types (MAS, VST). I can see them when I look at the corresponding folder on my panther install.

strange - in any case your tip about making a new clone with stuff that doesn't work well aliased will be very helpful


*** EDIT*** ok, just guess who did an archive and install tiger upgrade... so the missing plugins are all in a neat little previous systems folder. These are not aliased to the ones on the panther install, which makes it easier for me to test them


though if i'd done a straight upgrade to tiger they wouldn't have been moved out of the Library in the first place

[dnanian]

Well, a Safety Clone doesn't do anything to the files in your Home folder. So, they must have been removed by Tiger, but I've certainly never heard of the install removing files like this, especially those "Owned" by the user.

But, it DOES make sense that an archive-and-install would move them from /Library/... (not ~/Library). Straight upgrade would have definitely been my suggestion...