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I had a lot of problems installing Leopard, but worst of all, Archive and Install hosed most of my documents.
I got Leopard today from the uptodate program after being backordered a week. I put in the leopard install disk and hit reboot. First I got the starry background and then got a beachball that just spun and spun. Then I hard reboot and it loaded. I chose Archive and Install with preserve user and network settings. After the install process OS X said something like OS X Install unsuccessful. Could not migrate your old user directory. Click here to reboot. So I hit reboot and installed again, this time doing Upgrade. Well, instead of installing over my old installation, Leopard wiped away my user directory, leaving me a partial back up in the Previous Systems folder.
I found my pictures in the iPhoto Library via spotlight. Iphoto Library is a package and doesn’t automatically show up in the new version of iPhoto, but if you right click on your iPhoto Library and do show package contents the pictures are there.
My old mail could be imported from my old Library inside the old users folder.
But Leopard deleted my Desktop and Documents folders. They’re just gone. I would have lost scores, websites, journal entries, papers, videos, songs, and projects if I hadn’t backed up.
Back up before installing Leopard!!

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