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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?
Date: 5 Apr 2015 16:15:26 GMT
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On 2015-04-05, Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:
>> My (used) iMac came with Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Coming from the Linux & 
>> Windows world, I've been very hesitant to upgrade the system... especially 
>> since what I already have *WORKS*.
>
> I just wanted to add - you aren't using software preinstalled and used 
> by a previous owner as-is, are you? If so, now is a good time to erase 
> all of it and reinstall it from scratch. And if you're doing that, it 
> makes sense to leave the old OS behind and install the latest one.

Yep. I told him to do that first thing, but it seems like he didn't want
to do it for whatever reason.

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