1 Reply Latest reply: Sep 18, 2010 5:27 AM by BobLevine RSS

    Question re: CS5 & migration from Leopard > Snow Leopard on same Mac

    Larry Auerbach Community Member

      I have a Mac Pro (c. 2007-era) running Leopard 10.5.8, with 16GB of RAM, and have been running CS5 Design Premium on it with few problems of note, along with lots of other applications.  I'm finally going use Migration Assistant to migrate to Snow Leopard, and am pondering how to do this.  I have Leopard 10.5.8, my applications, accounts and documents on one internal drive, and have a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on another internal drive. 

       

      My choices are:

      1) to do a clean install of all applications on the Snow Leopard drive to migrate only documents, accounts, settings, etc.

      2) migrate everything including applications from the Leopard disk to the Snow Leopard disk.

       

      With Migration Assistant doing its job on the same Mac, do I need to deactivate CS5 in Leopard from the Leopard boot disk and reactivate it from the Snow Leopard boot disk, or will CS5 recognize that it is installed on the same hardware and not cause any problems related to activation?

       

      Also, would others here advise the simpler migration option 2), or is the more complex, time-consuming option 1) a wiser thing to do, as far the stability of CS5 goes?  I'm concerned about running a stable system with as little time wasted troubleshooting as possible, but have dozens of third-party applications (e.g. Lightroom 3), plug-ins (Photoshop, InDesign), utilities, ICC paper profiles for printing, and system preference panes, so installing everything from scratch will be a major PITA.

       

      Anyone?  Thanks very much in advance.