I want to do a fresh install of snow leopard. I did the upgrade route from Leopard, but this OS is killing me and my MBP. Everything I do is a beach ball.
On booting Snow Leopard, your Mac will boot up just like it did when you first took it home from the Apple Store –heck that feeling alone is worth doing this every 6 months.
You’ll be presented with an option to migrate files and settings, select “Other Mac” and plug your external drive back in. Now if you select the default option of copying everything you’ll be back where you started, why not do what we do, don’t migrate anything you haven’t used in the past 6 months.
I have made a bootable back up on my external that I have booted from and works fine, but it seems to me what they are saying if I migrate my files from this boot copy, then I will have the exact same computer as I had before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am sick of everything crashing on me!
If you only migrate your user data (not the operating system, which you aren't, since you installed a fresh copy of SL from the disc), the problem will not follow from your clone to your freshly re-done system. (Unless the problem is within your user personal user account.)
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If you only migrate your user data (not the operating system, which you aren't, since you installed a fresh copy of SL from the disc), the problem will not follow from your clone to your freshly re-done system. (Unless the problem is within your user personal user account.)
So when I am in the freshly installed operating system in the set up, I just migrate my user data? That will bring all of my programs, my settings, my files etc?
So when I am in the freshly installed operating system in the set up, I just migrate my user data? That will bring all of my programs, my settings, my files etc?
Correct. After SL is done installing, the unit will restart, and the machine will look like it just got setup for the first time ever. At that point, you are offered the option to migrate data from another Mac via FireWire, another volume (your external), or a TM backup. Done.
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I noticed in the comments following the article many people arguing that the erase and install option is unnecessary, a big headache with apps like the Adobe CSs, or even potentially dangerous. There's also some saying that there is no erase and install option available with Snow Leo's installer.
I can't speak for the accuracy of all those comments, but they might give me pause. Then again if your MBP seems to have some flaky issues a clean install might be the only way to tame them. If it was me though, I'd look around the find out whether any of the criticisms of the author's methods are valid, before proceeding.
I noticed in the comments following the article many people arguing that the erase and install option is unnecessary, a big headache with apps like the Adobe CSs, or even potentially dangerous. There's also some saying that there is no erase and install option available with Snow Leo's installer.
I can't speak for the accuracy of all those comments, but they might give me pause. Then again if your MBP seems to have some flaky issues a clean install might be the only way to tame them. If it was me though, I'd look around the find out whether any of the criticisms of the author's methods are valid, before proceeding.
I had major issues with Indesign CS4, it would not open a file, any file, or even a blank document. This was with a fresh clean install of everything, nothing migrated from the previous system. I use Indesign all the time, so I was down for about 2 1/2 hours as I restored back to my time machine backup.
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So I had a scare. Nearly shart in my pants. I had a back up on external from CCC. When I migrated my info in the SL install, it was only 16GBs of data...shart my pants right at that moment. When I get into the OS, Papers can't find my library. It appears that all of my user data wasn't transferred over. All the apps and settings were, but documents, music etc were not. I am manually transferring over 131,57GB.
Why did it do that?
Computer is running way faster, even considering the data transfer! Cheers!
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