Hello everyone,
After having searched through some of the results, I did not seem to find a similar thread- please apologize if overseen. Here is the issue:
-I just upgraded from my old Tiger to Snow Leopard (DVD drive was broken so there were minor hassles in between) on my Core Duo MBP.
-Previously I had done a backup of my entire system with Carbon Copy to an external USB hard-drive.
-With the Snow Leopard freshly installed on a clean swept system, I decided to use Migration Assistant to restore but- I read this is a common thing- the MA came to a halt when "Searching Disks". No problem, I am trying to restore the backup with Carbon Copy Clone when it struck me that it might be a dangerous affair to move a Tiger based system into an already existing Snow Leopard system, what with all the system files that might have changed. CCC applies a system file filter when migrating the data but I am still careful not to blow it, therefore my question is , how safe is it to perform a migration from a Tiger Backup into Snow Leopard, and if safe, is CCC restore the better option? If much is at stake,then Id prefer to manually move my most cherished data and those applications that make sense to move without personal settings.
thanks in advance,
Diego
After having searched through some of the results, I did not seem to find a similar thread- please apologize if overseen. Here is the issue:
-I just upgraded from my old Tiger to Snow Leopard (DVD drive was broken so there were minor hassles in between) on my Core Duo MBP.
-Previously I had done a backup of my entire system with Carbon Copy to an external USB hard-drive.
-With the Snow Leopard freshly installed on a clean swept system, I decided to use Migration Assistant to restore but- I read this is a common thing- the MA came to a halt when "Searching Disks". No problem, I am trying to restore the backup with Carbon Copy Clone when it struck me that it might be a dangerous affair to move a Tiger based system into an already existing Snow Leopard system, what with all the system files that might have changed. CCC applies a system file filter when migrating the data but I am still careful not to blow it, therefore my question is , how safe is it to perform a migration from a Tiger Backup into Snow Leopard, and if safe, is CCC restore the better option? If much is at stake,then Id prefer to manually move my most cherished data and those applications that make sense to move without personal settings.
thanks in advance,
Diego