1. if you purchased apps in the Mac App Store, then you have nothing to worry about, you can just redownload them when your restore is finished. 2. If you have 3rd party apps, save your activations and most recent version of them on a usb hard or thumb drive. 3. as for your iTunes library. You should save it to an external hard drive. That way you can copy the content back to your mac once the clean install is done. Hope this helps.
Kliphton ~iMessage&Email~ kliphton....@outlook.com ~Twitter,Instagram,Foursquare&Skype~ kliphton72 (Text only) 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-Read at your own risk) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 22, 2013, at 9:17 AM, "Alex Hall" <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > Ever since Mavericks, I have had the following problems which others don't > seem to have: > 1. Speech is choppy and pauses randomly. This is not all the time, but often > enough to be annoying. > 2. Apps take up to thirty seconds to launch. > 3. The system just feels sluggish overall. > > Am I alone in these? If so, would a clean install help matters? What can I do > to help the restoration process after the install? I have both Crashplan and > a local Time Machine backup, so I can get my personal files back. My question > is more about apps and settings. For instance, how could I restore my iTunes > library, which I spent days manually tagging, or the customizations I've made > in apps like Key Remap, or my saved bookmarks in Safari, and so forth? I know > that the Mac does not use a Windows-style registry, so restoring will not be > as tedious as it would be on Windows, but I've never done this before. If I > should give it a try, what should I know before I begin? > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > mehg...@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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
