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Leopard Report

It’s so far, so good for me with Leopard. I’ve done two clean installs - one to create a new Leopard development machine, the other because I had to repartition my laptop - and both have gone smoothly, as you would expect.

I did an Archive and Install upgrade of my Aperture drive, mostly to save the time it would take to restore the 150GB Aperture library. I have multiple drives in my Mac Pro, primarily one for Aperture, one for development and a couple of smaller spares for dinking around. It’s incredibly useful to have spare hard drives in the machine for these kinds of data-shuffling situations.

The only issue I’ve seen so far is a problem with hiding applications when working in Spaces. I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to Spaces - I have too many years of Cmd-Opt-H hiding and Cmd-Tab app switching ingrained into my memory. The other - trivial - problem was that Aperture lost its serial number during the Archive and Install, because Aperture keeps its serial number file in /Library/Application Support, which gets archived.

Also, regarding Aperture, you’ll want to apply the 1.5.6 update from Software Update and be aware of a potentially data-corrupting negative interaction with Time Machine.

Good to hear all went well. I think I’m going to have the same memory muscle problem with Spaces.

“Cmd-Opt-H”

That’s brilliant. And it’s taken me until now - when it’s going to be obsolete - to discover it. Thanks, though.

Fraser,

Any idea how to restore the Aperture serial #? I ran into a similar problem doing an “Archive and Install”, and now Aperture is nonfunctional. Unfortunately my original boxes are in the midst of a move and will be inaccessible to me for several months!

I have a “bootable clone” of my drive which I made before the Leopard upgrade. Might you know how one can retrieve the serial number file from there?

Nevermind, problem solved

I was looking in

/Library/Application Support/Aperture

But it turns out the file is stored in

/Library/Application Support/ProApps

Oh, and as for Spaces, I totally agree about the muscle-memory issue! I had become a big user of the exposé corners of the screen myself, a trick which will not work with Spaces. For now, I’ve tried assigning the Spaces activation to a previously unused mouse click combo, and hoping to get a fresh start training myself to used that.