Well, I backed up everything worth saving on DVDs. Burning DVDs is slow, about 1.5 hours to burn and verify, and probably a good half hour just moving things to the disk image before burning. So at about 2 hours per DVD, and with 5 DVDs to burn, plus counting that I wasn't just sitting there waiting for things to finish, it took me all day to backup. But by 11pm on Saturday, I had erased my disk, and installed Tiger.
The next day, Sunday, I installed everything, and of course realized I had forgotten some critical items like my precious .emacs file! But luckily my .emacs file is so precious I use variants of it on multiple machines, so I managed to restore it.
So far, it looks great. Things are speedy, although that may be also due to cleaning out all the clutter while reformatting. Dashboard is nice, but slow to update things when you go to the dashboard pane. Spotlight is also nice so far, and has some of the same neat usability features as Quicksilver.
One other praise for Apple. I made a differently named account on my newly formatted hard drive than I had before. There were surprisingly few places where I had to edit configuration files or XML directories to make things work. Most of the places I did have to edit were in third-party programs. So good work, Apple!
Posted by ahyatt at May 9, 2005 05:28 PM