Questions & Answers for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

On desktop, click hard drive icon to select it.
Go to file menu and select Get Info.

(or simply "right-click" on hard drive icon and choose Get Info.)

You will see "Capacity" of drive, and "Available" and "Used" space.

Note: you may have several "hard drive icons" on a single physical drive. That is because the Mac treats each partition as a separate drive. To see all partitions, launch the "Disk Utility.app". On the left side, it will list all the partitions on each physical drive, whether mounted on the desktop or not. You can select any partition and click on "info" at top of the "Disk Utility" window to see space used and free space on that partition.

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Dec 21, 2012
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Yes. But make sure you have at least 1GB of memory first.

I have the same processor, and I upgraded from 10.4.11 to 10.6 using the $29 Snow Leopard DVD. Although, the $29 Snow Leopard DVD supposedly does not "automatically" upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.6, all the tools to upgrade are on the DVD. Here are the steps I used:

1) First, keep (or clone to an external bootable drive) your old bootable partition with the old OS on it. This allows you to have a backup and still be able to start up with OS 10.4.11, if you wish to, after Snow Leopard is installed.

2) Start doing a clean install of Snow Leopard to a fresh partition. In order to do a clean install with the $29 DVD, you will have two options when you start up from the DVD... "Utilities" or "Continue". Select "Utilities" and when the Mac restarts, select "Disk Utilities" from the "Utilities" menu. Do a format of your "fresh" partition and then QUIT "Disk Utilities".

3) Now Snow Leopard will begin installing. During the install, it will search your Mac for all other partitions with an older OS and then ask you if you want to import your OS Settings, Applications and Files from one of those other partitions. Do this for a very smooth upgrade transition to the new OS. (If you decide to not import, then you will end up with a clean install of Snow Leopard instead.)

4) After restarting with the newly installed Snow Leopard, go to the Apple Menu and do Software Updates to bring your system up to OS 10.6.8.

5) All my Apps from OS 10.4.11 continue to work in Snow Leopard, but some of my printer drivers and scanner utility did not. Until I found those upgrades, I was still able to start up from the OS 10.4.11 partition to use my printers and scanner. To change the Start Up partition, either use the Start Up Disk in System Preferences... or press OPTION after you turn your Mac on.

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Feb 25, 2012
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No, your machine has a PowerPC G5 processor, and the Intel processor and motherboard architecture are completely different. The only solution to upgrading is to sell this machine and buy a new Intel based one.

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• Answered by Trevor I from Victoria
• Dec 30, 2009
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You should always back up all of your information before upgrading an operating system. Although "normally" everything will be ok... there is always a chance of a system corruption.

• Answered by Rodney W from Niddrie
• Jul 25, 2011
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You can access iCloud in 10.5.8 through the web browser (Safari). This is actually reasonably convenient, and a good solution that I use for my old PowerBook G4 (a 2002 Mac running 10.5.8).

To get "native" access to iCloud on the Mac (Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks etc.) you need OS X 10.7 (aka Lion). To upgrade to Lion, you need a Mac with a Core 2 Duo processor (or better) and at least 2 GB of RAM.

• Answered by Rodney W from Niddrie
• Jan 10, 2012
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YES. Answer continued from previous post.
The archiving was unnecessary as;
a) iWork '09 is compatible with 10.6.8 CONFIRMED
b) all the parts you are deleting are System related and not user related, so will be reinstalled.

Therefore, delete iWork from /Applications and from /Library/Application Support and reinstall from DVD or DMG.
The versions installed will be Keynote 5.0, Numbers 2.0 and Pages 4.0. These will still not work, but Software Update should now offer you three updates as follows;
iWork Update 4 9.0.4
iWork Update 5 9.0.5
iWork Update 6 9.1
Applying all of these (no restart needed), will take the app versions to Keynote 5.1 (1018), Numbers 2.1 (436) and Pages 4.1 (923).
These will now work with 10.6.8. Most likely any version of 10.6, but I am being precise as that version is my only experience. To be exact my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro also had the OSX Updates 10.6.8 v 1.1, and the 10.6.8 Supplemental Update applied, however I think these are mainly for correcting issues when Migrating or Upgrading to Lion OS X 10.7, so I doubt they are necessary to allow iWork '09 to work.
Good Luck and Enjoy. I wish this was already answered to save me the time!

• Answered by M J P
• Sep 20, 2011
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Seriously,you should keep regular backups. If you've never had a hard drive crash, you have no idea how mcuh of a hassle it is to retrieve your data files. Not to mention costly if you have to take the drive to a professional.
Time Machine helps a lot with regular backups and it's easy to use. I have a second hard drive connected to my Mac specifically for Time Machine. It works in the background so I don't have to think about it.
You don't have to do a clean install, or reformat your disk, to upgrade. It's just a good idea to back up all your data anytime you upgrade, just in case .

• Answered by Marie D from Moreno Valley
• Jan 8, 2011
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You must buy the snow leopard install disc then install it, you should keep your files. Go to software update and update to the latest version (10.6.8). Reboot and go to Mac App Store and purchase Lion ($29.99). Mount the .dmg and click on the Install Mac OSX Lion.app, then install and reboot. Use software update once again to update to 10.7.4

• Answered by Cameron K from Rossmoyne
• Jul 19, 2012
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