Question About Leopard

[AhrenStein]

Okay so i have a macbook that is about a year and a half old. I'm running Tiger on it. After this much time i obviously have a lot of files and things built up and things that i do not want to lose.

I have gotten my hands on a copy of leopard. It is a legit copy that has never been used. My question is what will happen to all my files/programs/preferences if i install leopard? Will i lose everything or will it organize itself in the new OS.

Any help is appreciated. +K

I also searched on the apple site and found nothing.

 

[AhrenStein]

So throw everything on my external. Then upgrade. And if anything goes wrong i have the files to grab?

 

[lydiaiskwllol]

Id do that... and then tell me if you loose your files and if it's worth upgrading

 

[Sir_SkrillALot]

Honestly you are fine without backing everything up and to the reformating every 6 months, thats stupid. If you are reformating every 6 months you either
1) have windows
or
2) are corrupting shit yourself.

the only thing you should do every now and then is check your disk permissions.

 

[hellomynameisjef]

back up everything on an external drive, just as a failsafe backup plan

but really, just installing it should keep ur files