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Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?
Date 2015-04-05 17:22 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <cod9akFehl6U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <XnsA472D30D189CEauricauricauricauric@213.239.209.88>

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On 2015-04-05, 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*.
>
> But now, there is a program that I want, which says that it needs at least 
> Lion (and recommends Mountain Lion or newer). So, with the store offering the 
> free upgrade to Yosemite, I'm strongly considering going through with it.
>
> But... I'm a bit leery of doing it unprepared. Are there any risks or gotchas 
> I need to be aware of, big or small?

One thing I haven't seen mentioned (maybe I missed it) is you need to be
sure you have at *least* 4 GB of RAM installed in the machine to run
Yosemite well - and 8 GB of RAM would be much better, especially if you
plan to run many apps at once. 

> (None of the app-specific things I found on the "how to upgrade" page 
><https://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/> apply to me, for one reason or 
> another.)

Roaring Apps has a compatibility database you can use to see which apps
of yours are compatible (or not) with Yosemite:

<http://roaringapps.com>

-- 
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JR

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Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2015-04-05 03:43 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 21:02 -0700
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-05 16:03 +1200
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Me, myself and I <baiheli.pip.li@xs4all.nl> - 2015-04-05 12:12 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-05 04:33 +0000
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-05 14:57 -0700
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-05 22:57 +0000
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-06 11:57 +1200
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 03:57 +0000
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-06 16:33 +1200
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 04:56 +0000
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-06 01:00 -0400
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-06 17:43 +1200
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:53 +0000
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-06 05:21 -0700
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 09:10 -0400
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:51 +0000
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-06 20:38 -0700
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-06 13:25 +0000
                Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-07 02:25 +0000
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:47 +0000
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-06 10:01 -0400
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-04-05 14:56 +1100
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-05 01:31 -0400
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-04 22:45 -0700
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-05 04:13 -0400
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 13:47 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-04-05 15:59 +0000
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 16:15 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 12:59 -0400
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 17:22 +0000
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2015-04-05 14:08 -0700
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-06 13:49 -0700
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-06 21:55 +0000
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-06 23:51 -0400
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 23:54 -0400
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 09:53 +0000
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 18:08 +1200
            Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-07 03:38 -0400
              Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 09:35 -0400
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-07 13:25 +1200
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 18:08 +1200
          Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-07 09:06 -0700
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-06 13:52 -0700
  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-04-08 21:00 -0400
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-09 12:48 +0000
      Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-04-10 22:23 -0400
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-11 14:49 +1200
        Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-11 12:17 +0000

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