Lisbeth, That sounds doable. Any particular order for the use of the following? Diskwarrior (recreates the volume header) Onyx (permissions, caches etc.) iDefrag (optimizes sizes and placement of files) I thought maybe 1. Onyx 2. Diskwarrior 3. iDefrag but I don't know the inner working of these things or how they might help each other. thanks for responding tim On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Lisbeth Zachs wrote: > 1 nov 2005 kl. 05.34 skrev T Molnar: >> Better to just install the Tiger sys over an optimized defragged >> Panther sys. (leaving app's and other stuff untouched) >> or to totally reformat the hard drive (after cloning my previous >> set-up on the external), > -------------- > 1 Optimize your Panther sys, with Disk utility or better Onyx or other > optimizing tools. > 2 Make a CarbonCopy Cloner to your extern HD > 3 Update the Panther sys to Tiger > > If you very unlikely should have any trouble with the update, you will > still have the opportunity to do a clean install and collect stuff > from the extern HD. > > The Tiger is more efficient than Panther so will work better on your > Ti, so go ahead. > > Lisbeth in Gothenburg > <http://homepage.mac.com/holisticum/> updat 050215 > <http://www.got-a-mac.org> medlemssida för Got-a-Mac (Mug in > Gothenburg) > > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > tim.molnar http://www.digitaltao.ca tam at em.ca tmolnar at uvic phone: 250.472.5289