[P1] OS X 10.3 Early Adopter

Donald Hinkle donhinkle at att.net
Sun Oct 26 09:02:29 PST 2003


I was wondering about non-Apple applications: in my case, Painter and 
Poser and some other graphics programs...as well as Adobe stuff?
-don
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Brian Pearce wrote:

>> when you run "archive and install", are your applications and 
>> preferences still in place and working?
>
> Yes. Apple's bundled applications can be replaced with new copies if 
> you specify this during the installation; the older versions are in a 
> "Previous System" folder that's created as part of the process.
>
> Users' folders are transferred over, preferences (which are in the 
> "Library" folder) and all. The *System's* "Library" folder appears to 
> be newly created, so you may have to reinstall printer drivers (as I 
> did). But most everything else should be in your Home Directory.
> ...

>
donald henry hinkle
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Author of OKLAHOMA, a brief story about a state, ISBN 0-7660-5138-2, 
and RONALD REAGAN, a biography of the 40th President of the USA, ISBN 
0-7660-5112-9, both published in 2003 by Enslow. Also, check out 
http://villagedit.home.att.net



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