09-27-2009, 02:11 PM
I got a new iMac last week. It came installed with Leopard but the Snow Leopard disc was included in the box. Instead of following my long-standing tradition of waiting about a year to upgrade to a new OS, I foolishly installed Snow Leopard without first doing some research.
Folks, there are many, many problems with Snow Leopard, as you'll see if you read the forums at Apple. Be very careful before you upgrade. Older programs may not work. Sometimes apps don't start, sometimes they do. It's real buggy.
My worst problem is with an older external Firewire 400 hard drive. I had to get an adapter to hook up the FW400 to the new FW800 slot. When I hooked it up, everything seemed fine. The external HD showed up right away on the desktop and all the files were there. BUT the next morning when I started up the computer, I got the message
I have years of photos on that hard drive, and if I can't get them back I'll be really sick. I have to call Apple tech support and see if they can help me. Wish me luck!
Meanwhile, I'm going to archive and reinstall Leopard on the new iMac.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Folks, there are many, many problems with Snow Leopard, as you'll see if you read the forums at Apple. Be very careful before you upgrade. Older programs may not work. Sometimes apps don't start, sometimes they do. It's real buggy.
My worst problem is with an older external Firewire 400 hard drive. I had to get an adapter to hook up the FW400 to the new FW800 slot. When I hooked it up, everything seemed fine. The external HD showed up right away on the desktop and all the files were there. BUT the next morning when I started up the computer, I got the message
the disk you inserted cannot be read by this computer.I got that same message when I tried hooking it up to my old iMac that I had used it with.
I have years of photos on that hard drive, and if I can't get them back I'll be really sick. I have to call Apple tech support and see if they can help me. Wish me luck!
Meanwhile, I'm going to archive and reinstall Leopard on the new iMac.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(