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From: David Arnstein on 14 Apr 2010 22:00
In article <myhbnsb5os.fsf(a)Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>,
Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam(a)stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:
>I reinstalled from the 10.6 DVD and was pleasantly surprised that it
>preserved my account and home directory, etc. (There was no "Archive
>and Install" option -- in fact there were no install options besides
>Install, though I could have run Disk Utility.)
>
>I then updated to 10.6.3 and installed all the other updates with no
>errors, though it obviously wasn't doing them in the same order as the
>original system had, since it skipped 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 and various
>other intermediate installs this time.

I was able to use this strategy as well.

First, I restored my Mac Mini from backup media. That got me back to
10.6.2 and all my user data.

Next, I installed Snow Leopard from original DVD. This constitutes an
operating system downgrade. But all my userdata was preserved, as far
as I can tell.

Finally, I downloaded the big 10.6.3 "combo" update from Apple and
executed it locally. It worked! This brought me all the way to 10.6.3.

I am disappointed that Apple did not provide any guidance regarding this
issue. Fortunately, some smart people with names like Martin and Frost
found a solution on their own. Yay!
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David Arnstein (00)
arnstein+usenet(a)pobox.com {{ }}
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