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By: kev

kev — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:29:52 +0000

success !! however on the first re-install off the cd THAT CAME WITH MY MACBOOK did not work … also once the install was finished it rebooted my computer and never booted to my desktop … just to got to the apple and the spinning thing and just gets stuck on that page … in addition after the first attempt to re-install from my OS X cd i could no longer boot from the cd …. performing “alt” @ start up did not give me an option to boot from the cd …. nor did holding down “c” … everytime the cd eventually just ejected @ some point ….

i ended up using a friends mac to install from hsf+ usb drive using the same os x disk … if u dont know how to do this … u can do it in DISK UTILITIES just connect your external drive …. open Disk Utilities … go to the Restore tab … and drag and drop your OSX CD from the list to the SOURCE field …. then drag and drop your USB external Drive to the DESTINATION field and click restore … Disk Utility will use the OSX CD to make your USB drive bootable and able to install Snow Leopard ….

once i got my USB external drive bootable to install snow leopard … i booted my mac holding “alt” and selected to boot from my USB external Drive … and it did without no hesitation like it did many times trying to boot from the CD it even took a few tries on my initial attempt to re-install … well long story short on the first attempt to re-install from the USB drive …. it crashed while installing … however on the second attempt it completed and my macbook finally booted to its DESKTOP !!!!!! Everything still in placed NOTHING MISSING !! even my desktop picture all is still in tact …. so i can confirm that it doesnt archive anything but it @least doesnt erase or move anything either … so as long as the re-install goes fine you will not lose any data …. im finally typing from my macbook now !!!!!!! been down for a good 5 days !!!!!!!

SIDE NOTE TO AVOID ALL OF THIS BS … INVEST SOME TIME IN BACKING UP YOUR SYSTEM !!!!!!!! i was currently working on a music video when this bs happened and none of my stuff was backed up … if it was i could of saved myself 5 days of trouble shooting and researching …. def plan on doing a fresh install once this project is completed …

also my original issue was that my computer was getting the kernel panic attachs @ bootup …. it all started when i tried to upgrade to 10.6.4 smh lol

also also lol … it was noted somewhere that if your computer crashes due to upgrading to the latest software … if you restore using your original software … you will be restored to that version …. however mines is back up running 10.6.3 … ?? but that is per-say from the USB drive which was made from my original disk ….. maybe thats only from the cd upgrades and maybe why it still didnt work for me ???? just some addtional fyi ….

By: kev

kev — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:30:21 +0000

hey folks !! thanks for the great info !! i am backing my files up via terminal as i type !!

@TJ just wanted to say i followed your steps and all is good except … i get an error trying to copy the DEVELOPER folder … on my mac my developer folder is located in the LIBRARY folder … just fyi … i dont think its a big deal cause im still copying the LIBRARY folder and all of its contents … if that is an issue please let me know …

also i see everyone is skeptical about the INSTALL and ARCHIVE option on SL … from what ive been reading its not an option any more its STANDARD … once i get all of my data backed up i wll be running the SL install disc that came with my macbook … i will let yall know wether or not my data was still there after it completes …

right now still pending my almost 200gigs of data to be transfered … man this was a journey … fyi i also needed an external file system that could catch files bigger than 4gig … using HFS+

def not planning to go back to the microsoft world … but ive been reading that the windows hacks for HFS+ are way more better than hacking the mac for ntfs …. let me know if yall heard anything diff ….

once again thanks for the NOTES !!

By: giyad

giyad — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:45:09 +0000

nevermind, i figured it out…

I ended up just not copying the Applications over, the only important things for me anyway were the preferences.

So I ended up copying certain files only from system preferences /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration, and user preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/

By: giyad

giyad — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:50:33 +0000

Ok, sorry to bombard your comments haha… but i figured out that the reason some weren’t working is specifically because the library files were missing.

Should I just sudo mv the Library and system files?

By: giyad

giyad — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:24:56 +0000

Oh and the error I’m getting is you can’t open it because it may be damaged or incomplete.

I’m thinking this may mean that there was an error when I moved them onto my external? Because some files work and some don’t. For example, text mate worked but VLC didn’t. So now I’m a little worried to migrate my system and library files over. What do you think?

I’m definitely going to clone before doing anything else.

By: giyad

giyad — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:14:35 +0000

Hey, thanks for the write up!

But I have a question. I backed up the contents as you described into a folder called “Previous”, but then I decided to perform a clean install and formatted my drive (obviously backing up that previous folder to an external). So now, when I moved my applications over, I’m getting errors when I try to open them up, is this because of my clean install?

I don’t want to move my Library or System files over unless I’m sure it won’t screw anything up. I’m going to clone my drive right now, but I figure if someone can give me an answer it would be faster.

Thanks in advance!

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:20:53 +0000

@Tomaz:
Go to the Utilities menu and select Terminal.
Type this in Terminal:
“cd /Volumes/Hitachi\ Easy\ Drive”
Press Enter
“mkdir Previous”
Press Enter
“cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD”
Press Enter
“mv Applications/ Developer/ Library/ System/ Users/ /Volumes/Hitachi\ Easy\ Drive/Previous/” – to move these folders to the Previous folder
Press Enter
You should also delete any other folders and files lying around which don’t contain information you’d rather keep. I deleted everything else except including all the files and folders beginning with a period (I reinstalled again). It didn’t hurt and I didn’t lose any data. You just have to:
“rm -r foldername” and press Enter
Then go to the Terminal menu and select Quit.
Continue with your installation.

Please make sure you’re files have actually been moved to the new locations (by running “ls -l /Volumes/Hitachi\ Easy\ Drive”) and checking to see that those folders are there.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:09:00 +0000

btw Hitachi Easy Drive is the one I’m trying to install the folder on