Tiger part 2



Although I was going to wait for a point release of Tiger, Safari continued to do the beachball thing and I was noticing major slowdowns on my G5 under the 10.3.9 release. Since I had put Tiger on a test and then production laptops I figured I'd give it a go on the G5.

My plan was to do a clean install to see if a freshly cleaned hard drive would help out the performance of the G5. Also, I did try an "update" install on the second powerbook and didn't fall in love with the result as much as I did with the clean install I did on the first powerbook. The update took much longer and in the end I was getting these annoying messages about "save defaults for this app" or something such. It seemed that despite whatever I did those defaults were not being saved and I kept getting those messages.

So when it came time to do the desktop I was set on clean install for sure. I backed up all my User directory to an external firewire drive, (about 90 gigs worth of work), unmounted that drive and unplugged it. Then popped the Tiger disk in and had at it. I'm happy to report that after about 30 minutes or so I'm back to work. I'm manually copying directories back off from the external drive to make sure I can do a little house cleaning along the way. Thus far things are working nicely. Most importantly, I don't see any of those beachballs.

Posted: Mon - May 9, 2005 at 01:16 PM          

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