Fed-ex delivered the Snow covered Leopard by noon and I couldn't play with her until late evening.
I immediately discovered that a GUID Partition was needed on my Boot Drive so I had to Wipe away the just completed backup to reformat the drive. Re-Backup the Mini's content with SilverKeeper and load ...by now a thawed-out Snow Leopard onto the drive. 45 minutes later the job was about to move into the second phase.
Al though I was loading the software from the mini into the Boot drive when it restarted in ended up on the boot drive. OooKkk
The DVD started to play Welcome to Apple and let's setup this Cat. I just ejected the DVD. a Pop-up appeared from TechToolPro saying it needed to install Roseeta. Then a pop-up appeared telling me that an upgrade was available. I click out of that and went on to investigate the furry little Kitty that lost it's way home.
I first noticed that all my Word Documents on the desktop were white text files and when I clicked them to open Text-Edit appeared. wot-woh i thought, Office is out to launch. I proceeded to open MS Word and and open the files from inside the program, they opened!!! and then quite mysteriously all the white text files turned into Word files....imagine that magic would ya?
Ok slow down and get back on track....run permissions and TTPro before proceeding.
Permission had two issues, and the one that i can remember had a warning!! It seems that a SUID file had been altered. Not knowing what a SUID file was I forge on.
I looked at the drive through TTPro 5 and there were a lot of fragmented files, large gaps on the drive and not how i keep things usually but i wasn't about to do a full Optimization when TTPro hasn't been tested on the Snowy Cat. I did defragment my files though and things began to smooth out on the drive, a lot of clicking where the drive was chasing fragments was gone.
One program affter another was opened and worked OK but some would suggest an upgrade....no thank you for now ..but i'll be back...Adobe Suite worked just fine but it wanted to upgrade the whole shabang..one app after another ...but still worked in spite of my dismissing attitude.
OK let's print..i just picked a Word file on the desktop and commence printing on the Brother 5-in-1 not an issue. Then onto the Epson but there was no Epson in the Printer box, a Click on OTHER quickly loaded a default driver, not Epson...according to the pop-up that said All my printer functions may not work..but it printed just the same.
the browsers all worked, Entourage Worked, Quickbooks, pagemaker, filemaker, on and on so i was pleased that there were no horror stories to report.
Now t's time to see what this update is all about, so i click on the Apple software link and it runs, and runs, and eventually it stops. Not at the usual window that shows you what your installing NO,no, no, its a box that looks like your heading that way so i clicked it and it started downloading whatever and then asks me for a password, goes into the default screen mode, loads and registers to items and then reboots. I've never seen an upgrade like that before and I didn't know it was 10.6.1 until i check About this Applesauce.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
