One of Apple's mistakes...plz help?

[Hidden Gekko]

I asked this before at another forum and they said the only way to fix it is by reformatting which i do not want to do. Im sure this has happened to someone else out there and i just wanna make sure that there is no other way around it.

Anyway I once had 10.1.4 a long time ago. As well as 10.1.3. Perfectly installed on my computer. Ok...Some software screwed my computer up and I had to reinstall 10.1.0 from CD. I found that i couldn't update again to 10.1.3 or 10.1.4 because there were always errors installing them, even with installer update, etc. I then could only go up tp 10.1.2. When 10.1.5 came out, it installed perfectly. I had it for a while until I had to reinstall 10.1.0 AGAIN. So now im stuck down here with crappy old 10.1.0 until i get jaguar. I can't wait that long. Im no computer genius, but I think that it can't install something thats previously been there due to corrupt data or something. Is there anyway to get rid of that data, to clean it out so i can 10.1.5 again besides reformatting? Plz help out...This is one of apple's greater follies.

 

[newzworld]

install 10.1.5 and back up a working copy using Carbon Copy Cloner. Then if you need to reinstall just use CCC to copy the backup to your harddrive. It works for me! Backing up is a wonderful thing

UPDATE: if you do repartition, create a back up partition. you can install 10.1.5 and back it up on the back up partition. its faster to copy between partitions than from a burnt cd.

 

[xaqintosh]

open
/library/receipts
put it in list view, from date modified with the upside=down triangle, and install every one that seems likie it may do the trick, in chronological order from when it was last modified.

 

[DavidBaker]

PsyncX (available from VersionTracker) seems to work better than CCC. Just my opinion. (Note: I wrote PsyncX, but only because I really liked the way psync, the app that PsyncX is based on, works)

David