[NPMUG] The benefits of waiting a few days - sounds like Snow Leopard is Apple's answer to Vista in these early stages of implementation

[Alex MacArthur]

Since most of the major revisions to OS X are shortly followed by a  
bug fix , I decided to hold off for a few days . Thankfully !!

I use software that is not on everyone's plate ( i.e. VectorWorks ) ,  
so I will probably delay implementing Snow Leopard until I get word  
from Nemetschek Software that VectorWorks is compliant . Even the  
changeover to Leopard ( 10.5 ) required an expensive upgrade to run  
that software - the previous version had display problems after the  
move to Leopard - all I recall was the cost to upgrade VW, which was  
about the same as a Mac Mini .

I tend to err on the side of file safety , and have been buying  
external backup drives with every new change of Mac hardware . I have  
never regretted that investment - particularly after my G5 iMac was  
stolen , and has yet to be recovered . My latest , a Time Capsule just  
sits in the corner , doing its thing without prompts on my part . Just  
what the doctor ordered , even if a little expensive compared to other  
external drives . Wireless and effortless - can't ask for more !

Alex

p.s. I've had good success with Data Rescue II software in the past ,  
but the files I recovered were not written over . It even worked for  
the SD card from my camera when I realized in horror that I had just  
scrubbed photo files before downloading them .  Luckily I realized  
right away what I had done and took no other photos before the  
recovery process . The recovery was 100% .

Good luck to those who lost data . I hope the most critical files can  
somehow be resurrected from other sources , such as 'the Cloud' or  
Mobile me .

.... and a big thanks to Dave Sevick who has been drumming it into our  
heads for years to backup frequently before a disk drive failure or  
glitch in upgrading occurs .
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