Archive

HI,

but I had no idea how to reinstall the Previous Systems folders.

Your Mac can only boot from one system folder. In this case Snow Leopard.

If you are the admin of this Mac, you should haven't do deal with permisssions at all.

Is there an easier way to re-install the old system files

If you are referring to third party applications you ran on Leopard, restore from your back up one app at a time to make sure it's compatible with Snow Leopard.

Read the post here by: "a brody" Remember the following when updating to Snow Leopard












Carolyn 🙂

ivisonbedard wrote:
I recently had to perform an archive and install - Leopard - Snow Leopard.

Do you mean you installed Snow Leopard over Leopard? If so, Snow Leopard no longer has the "Archive and Install" installation method that Leopard had, so I'm not sure what you mean by that.

It went smooth but I had no idea how to reinstall the Previous Systems folders. I am wondering why I had to do much of the files separate, drag n drop, then give myself permissions on many-many folders. Is there an easier way to re-install the old system files, or just give myself permissions just once, or did I just botch the whole process.?

After a Snow Leopard installation there shouldn't be much in Previous Systems folders, unless they're left over from older Leopard installations. If you just installed Snow Leopard, what do you see there?

• Unless you have one of the non-retail Snow Leopard discs obtained directly from Apple, there is no need to install Leopard before installing Snow Leopard.

• There is no Archive & Install option for Snow Leopard, nor does it create or need a "Previous Systems" folder. If you have one, it is left over from an A&I of Leopard or an earlier OS version.

* There is no need to reinstall anything from the "Previous Systems" folder if your prior Leopard (or whatever) system was working normally. If not, see the next two items. Otherwise, skip to the last item.

• If you did an A&I with the 'preserve users & settings' option, the only things of potential use in the "Previous Systems" folder would be system level files added by third party software but do not add any of them back to the Snow Leopard system until you have made sure they are compatible with it. Alternately (& usually preferably), reinstall that software using its installer after Snow Leopard is installed.

• If you did an A&I but *did not* use the 'preserve users & settings' option, the home folder(s) for your user account(s) were left in the "Previous Systems" folder. See How to get files from a previous home directory after Archive and Install for info on how to restore them. Do this before installing Snow Leopard.

• If you have already replaced anything in the new system level folders (System, the root level Library folder, etc.) with their counterparts from the "Previous Systems" folder, you have most likely compromised the new system. This may also be true if you have added items from that folder, depending on what they are. To recover from this, just run the Snow Leopard installer again. Afterwards, do not move anything from the "Previous Systems" folder into the new system. Check for normal operation & functionality. If everything is as expected, you can delete the "Previous Systems" folder. It is no longer needed.

This doesn't sound like a TextEdit problem (& if it were, reinstalling the OS to fix it is like using a sledge hammer to swat a fly). My guess is that somehow you or some utility has stripped the ".rtf" extension from the files, so instead of interpreting them as in rich text format (thus the extension name) it is interpreting them as plain text.

What you see is the rich text formatting.

ivisonbedard wrote:
Text edit, some where in the process of data transfer and repairs the files I opened up originally and colored the back ground were corrupted by being opened with the ignore rich text commands clicked on the back up server.

They weren't being corrupted. The rich text 'commands' are what tell the application to treat specially formatting plain text as document formatting instructions instead of as printed or displayed plain text. If you tell something to treat them as plain text, then they are printed or displayed as is instead of being interpreted as formatting instructions.

I'm not quite sure what you mean about opening "with ignore rich text commands clicked on the back up server" -- servers don't normally look inside files or change their contents -- but if you mean something that ignores that it is a rich text file, then you will get the same results every time you do that.

IOW, setting the background color actually adds a bit of specially formatted plain text to the document. You won't see that text if the application interprets the document as a rich text one; instead, the app knows it is a formatting instruction to display the document with the background color encoded in that bit of text & does so.

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what your last post means. What setting are you changing? What is the "it" that won't let you open the file again?

Who is clicking "ignore rich text commands in RTF files" & what server are you talking about? What do you mean about syncing preferences, & between what? What store & what does it have to do with this?

Most importantly, why would you want to ignore the commands that (among other things) set the background color?