Thinking About Finally Moving To Tiger Options

[mortalengines]

I am considering a move to Tiger (from Panther 10.3.5) to accomodate a Pro Tools upgrade to 7.1 (& a
Digi 002 in exchange for my M-box). Is there any way that I can upgrade my OS without having to go thru the rigamarole of reloading & reauthorizing my other Software Apps such as Live, Pluggo, Reason, & Reaktor? It is all very time consuming & it would be nice just to back them up on my external HD & move them over after the switch. BTW how easy is it to get the new OS to recognize my old eternal HD? Will it recognize the drive as soon as I plug it in to the FW port or do I have to reformat it (& would this jeopardize my Data on the drive?). Any info/input/instructions/advice would be much appreciated.

[zeze]

I am considering a move to Tiger (from Panther 10.3.5) to accomodate a Pro Tools upgrade to 7.1 (& a
Digi 002 in exchange for my M-box). Is there any way that I can upgrade my OS without having to go thru the rigamarole of reloading & reauthorizing my other Software Apps such as Live, Pluggo, Reason, & Reaktor? It is all very time consuming & it would be nice just to back them up on my external HD & move them over after the switch.

Panther and Tiger are two pretty different OS, even tho it should be possible to upgrade without reautorizing
all the apps and plugins (not sure), i suggest you to take your time to backup all the important things you have
on the main drive and make a fresh Tiger install inizializing the hard disk first; yes, it is a bit time consuming,
but you will be rewarded with a new and clean OSX ready to accept all the installations you need to make
music;
once i tried to make an upgrade from Jaguar to Panther and i got an OS making confusion and giving
many problems, so i ended reinizializing the hard disk and making a fresh Panther install, and that's why
i suggest you to make the same from Panther to Tiger;

BTW how easy is it to get the new OS to recognize my old eternal HD? Will it recognize the drive as soon as I plug it in to the FW port or do I have to reformat it (& would this jeopardize my Data on the drive?). Any info/input/instructions/advice would be much appreciated.

if you make a fresh Tiger install (10.4.6 for ProTools 7.1), it will recognise your external HD with no problem at all, after all it was formatted and used with a Mac OS; anyway, be sure it is journaled, since Tiger prefers it.

last but not least, be also sure that all the software you are willing to use with Tiger is upgraded to be accepted by the new OSX.