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Advice Sought: How to install Snow Leopard on Tiger Macbook?

Jul 2, 2011 6:51AM PDT

Hello folks

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You "should" be able to upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6 using
Jul 2, 2011 7:28AM PDT

the Snow Leopard installation disk.
However, I have seen many reports of the installation not going well and failing.
I think that Apple's original intention was for the end user to be on Leopard to begin with and then upgrade to Snow Leopard.
Still, @ $29 it is worth a try.
1. Install over Tiger. The clean install, also known as an Archive and Install, has gone the way of the dodo.
You will, of course, have a full backup of all your data, iTunes for instance, before you start.
Just insert the Snow Leopard disk and follow the instructions.
2. Increasing your RAM should help you. You may want to increase it to the max that your machine will take. You will find that information at Crucial.com.
3. You have not mentioned how much hard drive space you have available so I cannot advise you as to whether you should "clean out" your hard drive.
It is certainly possible to move your iTunes music to an external drive, in fact it is quite an easy move to make.
All you need is an external drive, something that you will be seriously thinking of getting to take advantage of the Time Machine backup that is part of OS X Leopard and above.

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ctd...
Jul 2, 2011 8:00AM PDT

OK MrMacFixIt, thanks for your response.

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iTunes on different drives
Jul 2, 2011 11:30PM PDT

One way to do what you want is to copy the entire iTunes folder to an external drive after having consolidated the library.
In iTunes, File > Library > Organize Library and then choose Consolidate Files. This copies all your music into the iTunes Library.

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This is a suck it and see
Jul 2, 2011 7:58AM PDT

This is a suck it and see sort of job, so just make sure you have a backup of anything important before starting in the event things go catastrophically bad.

I am amazed you have a mid-2007 MacBook that still works however. 2007 just wasn't a good year for MacBooks, or iMacs really.

Anyway, think most of the other questions have been answered pretty well, so just want to make sure to reinforce the notion of HAVING A BACKUP.

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ctd..
Jul 2, 2011 8:10AM PDT

yes, i too am kind of happy - and it's part of the reason i'm nervous to do anything drastic such as this.
but yes, i'm going to give it a go.
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I'm not a heavy user - I don't download and watch lots of movies, games etc, and I usually switch the machine off at the end of the day. Perhaps this has increased its lifespan. Even the battery is still working well; i had thought that the Macbook battery back then wasn't one that lasted.