This post will sound somewhat similar to my post last week about the Tiger upgrade, although hopefully it won’t be followed by another ‘Back to Panther‘ post!

After removing all traces of Norton Internet Security for Mac 3.0 and Missing Sync, I had installed and got ClamXAV running, and as I mentioned earlier in the week, removed the need for a local mail server.

The upgrade proved to be a lot quicker than last week, particularly the backup of the existing installation. SuperDuper, the excellent bit of backup software I’ve been using has a really useful smart backup mode that took my previous backup from last week, worked out what had changed, and only copied those files. Incidentally, if you haven’t got a backup application for your Mac, I can highly recommend SuperDuper. It is carefully designed to be as easy to use as possible, plus will explain everything it is going to do as clearly as possible. Aside from that it has a number of features designed to smooth the process of carrying out upgrades such as the Tiger upgrade. To be honest I wouldn’t have been up and running as fast as I was last week without it!

Anyway, back to the upgrade. As last week I did a clean install, and also made use of the migration wizard. With Norton and Missing Sync gone, there wasn’t the hassles and error messages I was getting last week. ClamXAV coped fine, and as with most other apps, spotted the change and sorted itself out, remembering all my settings. Mail also transferred without problems. The only thing remaining to do is to install the upgraded version of Missing Sync and then I’m done.