[X4U] Leopard Issues

[Daly Jessup]

At 10 26  -0500 12/2/07, Jon Warms wrote:

>1) The annoyance: I put the old 100GB drive, with 10.4.11,
>in an external USB housing. I was pleased to discover the
>drive was still bootable, and I could run the MacBook from
>the housing. But when I installed Leopard (from the DVD),
>the Mac transfer program specifically said I had to connect
>the old drive with a Firewire cable. So I copied the old
>drive to a Firewire drive I had, and then ran the transfer
>program.
>
>THE TRANSFER PROGRAM WAS HAPPY WITH THE USB-
>CONNECTED DRIVE. Bringing over the Firewire drive
>had been unnecessary! The transfer from the USB drive
>"just worked". Why didn't Apple check and fix the
>instructions?

I would assume it's because with some computers, the USB drive would 
not work. So they just give the instructions they know will work for 
all users.

I hope the "autofill" of a URL returns. I note a number of complaints 
about that from others.

Daly

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