Thanks, this makes sense and is what my husband does when installing on our Windows machines. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com
On Jun 10, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Generally, a clean install is not required. Only if your Mac starts doing odd > things or not working properly should you do this. Some people do a clean > install for every major upgrade, but I say if you don't *need* to go through > the hassle, don't bother. In other words, try a regular upgrade first. If > weird things start happening, and no one else is having the same problems, > and regular troubleshooting (permissions repair, PRAM reset, etc) don't fix > it, only then do a clean install. > On Jun 10, 2014, at 10:34 AM, isaac <isaac.heb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The difference between doing a update and a fresh install is that if you >> update you can take all of you're apps documents and important things with >> you doing the upgrade process. A clean install would mean you would have to >> reinstall every thing including apps. >> isaac >> isaac.heb...@gmail.com >> Skype gold_wildcat >> >> On Jun 10, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Jenine Stanley <dragonwalke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So, Ray mentioned something that gave me pause. >>> >>> I'd love to hear pros and cons for both approaches as I'm fairly new to >>> this operating system and came in with Mavericks already installed. >>> >>> What is the difference, besides the process of course, of updating to 10.10 >>> and doing a fresh install? >>> >>> I know one would backup the files and such to someplace like DropBox or an >>> external drive but from an operations standpoint, what do I gain or lose >>> from each method? >>> >>> I'll be very interested to follow this one. >>> Jenine Stanley >>> dragonwalke...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
