Installing Leopard - Any Precautions??

About to upgrade my tiger mac pro to leopard
(long story but have to put bootcamp on it among other things that leopard is capable of)

have a few fcp projects that i can't lose or corrupt

anything that must be done so there is a smooth transition?


thanks in advance

A warning if you are using a non US keyboard (probably not your case, though): FCP 6 and FCE 4 running on Leopard are currently "losing" all keyboard shortcuts, unless you use some workaround. This is a problem with many non US users (including myself); this problem seems to appear only after a clean install of Leopard, not after an upgrade from Tiger. It has been already reported to the Apple Feedback months ago...

Piero

As a general rule, don't upgrade in the middle of a project. hmm...

You can save keyboard shortcuts in FCP. Not sure if that works for non-US keyboards.



www.strypesinpost.com

The best way to upgrade to Leopard is not to. Do a clean install of Leopard onto a formatted disk volume.

Moving from one major version of an OS to another is never good when writing over the old with the new.

Doing it the correct way is a LOT of work but you will only benefit yourself in the long run.

thanks for the tips

i have figured as much, just thought there may be an easy way.
projects are more important then an upgrade.

cheers
-geoff

...and don't spill orange soda on your keyboard. I never did get my Control Key to pop back up and had to throw it out

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

DOH!

About non-US keyboard: saving the keyboard layout works, but it makes sense only if you first fix it with the workaround (close FCP, and in the System Preferences/International/Language set English on the top of the languages stack, and then your language back to the top...); otherwise you save the not working layout...

Piero