Black Panther instal the new for mac4/3/2024 ![]() ![]() When I upgraded 4 machines to Panther, I did an Erase & Install on the first one. But I wouldn't be surprised if most of those cases work just fine in Archive & Install by just reinstalling the application on top of what's there. You do need to reinstall applications which litter files in places like /Library (Photoshop?), so maybe that's a special case for Erase & Install (some people would say it's a case for Upgrade, but we do agree that that's generally a bad idea all around, right? ). If you're worried about old preferences, just rename ~/Library or delete bad preference files. Any drag-and-drop installed applications are still there under /Previous Systems: just drag them out and back into /Applications (actually, the installer may do this for you, I don't remember). Your home directory is still there with all your files. Yes, but don't make things harder than they need to be! The beauty of Archive & Install is that you do start over again, but you don't have to jump through hoops to backup and restore your data. Of course, you're free to disagree and that's cool, I just wanted to present an alternate view of the situation. ![]() If you have any problems due to old preferences, you can always go into ~/Library/Preferences and selectively delete the offending files. ![]() It also keeps all your personal files and preferences intact so you don't have to jump through a million hoops to backup your stuff and restore it (especially for someone without a free hard drive for backup). What Archive & Install does do, is it gives you a clean install without all the mess from an Upgrade. The Upgrade method can do that (if you have a lot of cruft from the old OS) but not Archive. It doesn't take up a lot of space other than Previous System Folders, which can be deleted as soon as you're happy that Panther is running stable. ![]() Archive & Install is easily the best method in my opinion, because it gives all of the benefits of Erase & Install without any of the hassles. ![]()
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