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Here we go again....10.6.7 doesn't kill anything

In the words of the famous fictitious spy series protagonist, James Bond, "Always have a backup plan." That is true regardless of what computer you have, anytime you install anything new, you should have at least two backups present. They can be printed or digital, but the point is, you don't have to recreate anything from scratch. 10.6.7, like any update is there to improve or add features of an operating system. It is not there to fix pre-existing conditions that make a system slow, or inoperable. If your system is unhealthy, backup, or use data recovery, and then ask for help here how to solve your problem. Make sure all your software and hardware is known to work with the update before applying it. Ask here if uncertain first. And remember updates don't kill anything, they only shed light on hardware or software that may already be marginal because they are sensitive to that.

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Posted on Mar 22, 2011 4:56 AM

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Mar 22, 2011 6:49 AM in response to a brody

You said a mouthful brody and I agree with you completely!

What gets me is the number people that depend on their computers for business
and have no backup and no alternative means to continue working. As cheap
as hard drives are these days, there is really no excuse. Especially with OSX when
you can clone a hard drive and then just reboot externally. Then they cry when
something breaks with some/any upgrade and how much time they lost.

I know its a real bummer when it happens, but s**t happens so you need to be prepared.

As for me, I don't install any sort of updates when I am in the middle of a
very important project. When I do an update of any sort, I do the usual permission
repair, disk check and repair if needed, and then do an incremental clone to
an external drive, then I install the updates. This way if something does get trashed,
I can reboot to the external drive and if I am on some time constraint, continue working
with that until I can fix the problem, or I can just unconditionally clone the external
back to the internal.

Mar 22, 2011 8:31 AM in response to a brody

After I updated to 10.6.7, the IRS notified me they were doubling my tax refund; a crew showed up at my house & cleaned/stained all of my outside decks; when I plugged my 3GS in to sync, a message appeared in iTunes saying "Congratulations, as a loyal updater, we're sending nanomites down the line to turn your 3GS into an iPhone 4. The whole process should take no more than 1 hour." I couldn't be happier and can't wait for the next update 🙂 .

Here we go again....10.6.7 doesn't kill anything

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