Upgrading OS v10.5 to 10.6 involving Timemachine

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Upgrading OS v10.5 to 10.6 involving Timemachine

Hello,

I'm running a MBP from late 2008, with the latest version of 10.5 installed. I have purchased the Snow Leopard OS disc, and want to upgrade my computer so that I can then upgrade to the latest OS.

What I'd like to do is to back up my system onto my Timemachine device, before formatting and reinstalling Snow Leopard.

Will I be able to restore/import all my old files and applications from Timemachine if I do this? My concern is that because I've backed up to Timemachine on a different OS (v10.5), there may be some compatability issues when trying to restore on the new OS.

Any help on this would be great!

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 22, 2013 2:59 AM

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macjack

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Jan 22, 2013 5:47 AM in response to Pears123

If you're re-formating then you will boot into Setup Assistant, when you install SL. You will be prompted to Migrate your files and you will choose from a "TM backup". It will migrate from the newest backup.

On the other hand, there's no reason to reformat and you can just do a straight upgrade install and keep all your files.

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