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MacBook arrived
Jan. 25th, 2008 05:01 pmMacBook arrived this morning
Data transferred from powerbook
Memory installed
Firefox reinstalled (and seems to be working normally, yay!)
A bunch of old apps deleted
7x secure erase of powerbook hard drive in progress. Will then partition and set up test spaces for Panther and Tiger, since I still have clients on both of those.
Ever so painless transition, with the exception of FileMaker's execrable activation routine.
As instructed, I deactivated FileMaker 9 Advanced on the powerbook, but when I tried to activate on the macbook, I got "General Activation Error" this happened repeatedly, so I called in for the phone activation option. After 25 minutes on the phone with their tech support, I finally had the one application that is absolutely key to my business working. From what I've seen on various lists, this happens to pretty much everybody who moves an installation of FileMaker 9 to a new machine. Way to piss off your user base, guys. Congrats!
Have not yet checked what other apps don't work, but it looks like Office 04 (or whatever version it was) doesn't like Leopard.
Data transferred from powerbook
Memory installed
Firefox reinstalled (and seems to be working normally, yay!)
A bunch of old apps deleted
7x secure erase of powerbook hard drive in progress. Will then partition and set up test spaces for Panther and Tiger, since I still have clients on both of those.
Ever so painless transition, with the exception of FileMaker's execrable activation routine.
As instructed, I deactivated FileMaker 9 Advanced on the powerbook, but when I tried to activate on the macbook, I got "General Activation Error" this happened repeatedly, so I called in for the phone activation option. After 25 minutes on the phone with their tech support, I finally had the one application that is absolutely key to my business working. From what I've seen on various lists, this happens to pretty much everybody who moves an installation of FileMaker 9 to a new machine. Way to piss off your user base, guys. Congrats!
Have not yet checked what other apps don't work, but it looks like Office 04 (or whatever version it was) doesn't like Leopard.
