When I get Leopard I plan to completely wipe my drive and reformat it or whatever, then install leopard. But my question is that, I assume no iLife apps are on the Leopard DVD, so can I copy all my iLife 05 apps that came with my mini onto it from my usb backup drive? What would I copy? Just the apps? or some preference files, etc?
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When I get Leopard....
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iLife is separate to the OS, except for on the DVDs that come with new Macs that contain the OS and all the bundled software. Wouldn't the easiest thing be to install iLife from your Mini's discs after installing Leopard, rather than trying to copy the existing installation of the apps - I think you can install iLife without installing the OS on the discs, isn't there an "install bundled software only" option, or a way you can start the installation but then deselect everything except iLife?
If you do want to copy the apps then be aware that some of them have everything in the .app (preferences should be recreated when you run them for the first time), but some eg GarageBand put a lot of stuff in other places, I think it's /Library/Application Support/GarageBand.
Also, will iLife '05 definitely be 100% compatible with Leopard? I doubt that Apple bother to test something that old (in Apple terms
) with it and they don't update '05 any more - you might be better off finding a copy of '08 instead.
A clean installation is definitely a better choice than an upgrade though.
If you do want to copy the apps then be aware that some of them have everything in the .app (preferences should be recreated when you run them for the first time), but some eg GarageBand put a lot of stuff in other places, I think it's /Library/Application Support/GarageBand.
Also, will iLife '05 definitely be 100% compatible with Leopard? I doubt that Apple bother to test something that old (in Apple terms
) with it and they don't update '05 any more - you might be better off finding a copy of '08 instead.A clean installation is definitely a better choice than an upgrade though.
Yes, Leopard's APIs are written to robustly support ANY app that runs on 10.3.9 or 10.4.x to provide maximum backward compatibility *provided* the apps are written inside Apple's developer guidelines. If they *aren't* then issues may arise, but you'd hope iLife was, really . Apparently Adobe had a lot of work to do to get a patch out for CS3 to make it work right with LEopard though, someone's been cutting corners methinks 
. Apparently Adobe had a lot of work to do to get a patch out for CS3 to make it work right with LEopard though, someone's been cutting corners methinks 
