AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club

The view from BC
Mr Harper’s aide was later reported to have
said: “If the cat wasn’t dead already, I’d have
killed it by now!”
Up to 10.6.2
I got my copy of Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)
several weeks ago. I upgraded our laptop
almost immediately, with no problems, but
delayed upgrading the iMac until I had lots
of time to wipe the hard drive and re-install
everything ‘ab initio’.
That time came during a period of typical
Vancouver November weather, when the only
thing a sensible being would do was to stay
inside and upgrade a computer. Over a few
days, I backed everything up from the iMac’s
hard drive to an external HD, using Carbon
Copy Cloner. Then, one had to check exactly
what apps and such one was using, ensuring
that one had appropriate installation disc(s)
or had downloaded the latest version from the
Internet. All was set.
Then, the plunge. Disk Utility’s Erase Disc
with Zero Disc option. It worked! OS X 10.6
went on with no problem, as did tons of software
updates. After that, lots of time waiting
for apps to install themselves, along with tons
of updates. (Actually, it was interesting how
many apps I left off, ones that I felt I didn’t
really need just now; if desperate, I could always
put them on from their CDs.) This went
smoothly. Finally, there was just the job of
copying back data for all my user log-ons.
Well, after all that, things were working for
the most part. One little utility I’d had for
years, CocoaBooklet — that puts more than
one page on a sheet of paper in booklet format
— no longer worked, and I’ve not found a
free or cheap replacement for it so far. Adobe
Acrobat Professional CS3, which I must use
to create a PDF file for the printers who do
the ApplesBC newsletter, would not create the
Adobe PDF virtual printer properly. (There’s
another rainy day’s work to try and fix that!)
And date format in Quicken 2007 was not
right until I played around with Date and
Time formats in System Preferences.
But everything else works, and the iMac is
definitely sprightlier than before.
A seasonal observation
Late autumn is definitely here in Vancouver.
The rainy and windy weather, typical for this
time of year, occurs nearly every day, and it
feels quite chilly at times. The ski hills close to
Vancouver, including a couple that will host
Winter Olympics events in February, have
had a good amount of snow fall on them, to
the relief of the local ski-weenies and Olympic
organisers. (The latter are still biting their
nails, knowing that February can bring quit
mild conditions, with loss of snow-cover, not
what they need for The Big Event:-).
In closing...
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November 2009
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