Saturday, January 21, 2012
Home, sick. Decrypt was successful. Investigated the Lion upgrade process. My iMac has PGP 10.1.1 Build 10. It's not clear to me from Symantec's instructions whether PGP Desktop needs to be completely removed from my computer or if having the latest version installed is okay when I do the Lion upgrade. It says: "Note: If you are upgrading your computer to a new major release of Mac OS X (such as from 10.5.x to 10.6.x) and want to use this version of PGP Desktop, be sure to uninstall any previous versions of PGP Desktop before upgrading to the new version of Mac OS X and installing this release. Be sure to back up your keys and keyrings before uninstalling. Note that if you have used PGP Whole Disk Encryption, you will need to unencrypt your disk before you can uninstall PGP Desktop." The unclear part is: "...be sure to uninstall any previous versions of PGP Desktop..."—previous to what version? I could interpret this to mean previous to the current version, but this doesn't make sense because how can you have two versions of PGP Desktop installed? It also wasn't clear to me that I needed to decrypt all my drives—not just my startup drive. I submitted a ticket to our help desk: [I'm about to install Lion on my iMac which has PGP and WDE. In Symantec's instructions for the latest version of PGP, it says, "Note: If you are upgrading your computer to a new major release of Mac OS X (such as from 10.5.x to 10.6.x) and want to use this version of PGP Desktop, be sure to uninstall any previous versions of PGP Desktop before upgrading to the new version of Mac OS X and installing this release." Do I install the latest version of PGP and leave that installed before doing my Lion upgrade? Or must I uninstall PGP Desktop completely before doing my Lion upgrade? The way they have worded it doesn't make sense. If I have installed the latest version, how could I still have previous versions installed? How do I tell if I have previous versions installed? When they say "previous versions"—previous to *what version*? Another question: I know I need to decrypt my startup volume, but do external drives need to be decrypted in order to upgrade to Lion? PGP Desktop gave me a warning about still-encrypted drives when I tried to uninstall it. Is this warning ignorable in this situation?] Lunch at home with Patrick: tofu and vegetables stir-fry with noodles in teriyaki sauce, hot water. Nap. Cut my hair, showered. Dinner at Chevy's Stonestown with Patrick. Grocery shopping with Patrick: Trader Joe's Stonestown. Patrick made red beans. Finally watched Sicko (2007) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Edited a new news story late.