Comments
Comment by gummi: ¶
That’s the first time I heard about that data transfer assistant working well. I took a big swerve around it and went in from scratch. Nobody is gonna take my painstaking ritualistic Mac setup away from me!!
Comment by ssp: ¶
I suppose the transfer may fail on more complex installations that fiddled with the Unixy bits. But it seems to work all right for normal people. Which is the whole point.
Actually I quite like the idea of this working myself. I’m definitely not a friend of reinstalling and have a track record of upgrading instead of choosing the ‘clean’ option whenever possible.
Comment by d.w.: ¶
I installed the OS X Public Beta on my old iMac DV the day I got it. I did a clean install when OS X 10.0 shipped. It’s now running 10.3.4, doing nothing but stock incremental updates of every major and interim release since. This machine runs both my website and hosts my email, and I’ve had exactly two problems in all that time (i.e. over three years) that I can attribute to doing upgrade installs instead of clean installations: one was a genuine Apple bug in their installation scripts, and the other was a result of them switching from Sendmail to Postfix.
I can’t imagine doing this with Windows or any of the other Unixes I work with.
