APE can mess up Leopard upgrade

Charles Dyer charles.dyer at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 15:14:03 PDT 2007


On 28 Oct 2007, at 17:26:24, Andy Lee wrote:

> Just saw this on Daring Fireball:
>
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857>
>
>> More on this soon, but an important heads-up: If you’ve got APE  
>> installed, you should upgrade to Leopard with a Clean Install or  
>> Archive and Install, not an upgrade. People doing upgrades with  
>> (apparently outdated versions of) APE installed are getting stuck  
>> at a blue screen after the installation. Love the way Apple’s  
>> support document puts quotes around “enhancement” when describing  
>> what APE is.
>>
>> (My upgrade advice still stands — APE is the sort of “unholy  
>> diddling with system software” that warrants a Clean Install.)
>>
>> Update: Unsanity’s Slava Karpenko has acknowledged the problem on  
>> Unsanity’s weblog.
>>
>

I've simply deleted APE and all haxies in preparation for Leopard.


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