Ronni, I'm with you. I'm pretty sure my MBP would "go better" if I started from scratch, but it's just so much easier to migrate/update. I've just considered Macs much easier to do that with. Plus I worry about the things it took me time to get set up and working may not work after a clean install. It's funny coz I generally won't do that with a 'Windows' customer for upgrades to make sure no old 'junk' comes across.
However, I think next week I'll get a new MBP, iPad3 and Apple TV, so it may be time..... Cheers, Stuart PS - Wouldn't it be good if we could do a personal "system" cleanse and upgrade - clear out the old junk? :-) On 2/03/12 6:17 PM, "Ronda Brown" <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Severin, > > My congratulations to you! Well done Prof. > I've been putting this off for the last three new MacBook Pros, my excuse > being "I have not got the time to do a clean install and manually install the > 1,000 applications; many that I would not be able to find the registration > details for etc etc". > > I can hear Daniel screaming "Haven't you done that YET Ronni, you were > definitely going to do it with the last MBP 2011"! ... Perhaps he won't be > able to scream with his sore throat... ;-)) > > I guess when my MBP slows to a crawl I will be forced to do the System > Cleansing. > Or I might take a break from everything else and just 'Do it'... Just thinking > about it makes my head hurt. > > It's time for a glass of champagne. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 02/03/2012, at 5:53 PM, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > >> Yep, that's always the fun part. >> But hey, we have to have some little tricks to our trade. Otherwise we'd be >> obsolete,..well, as much as Apple want us to be,...lol ;) >> It hides in your User Library. So on your backup drive, you need to go to >> that directory then Application Support - Transmit. It will live in there. >> >> Hope that helps >> >> Enjoy >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> (whose about to go sit down from the horrible cold/flu he picked up,....) >> Wonder if I can charge a client double for giving me that,....lol :) >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** >> >> On 02/03/2012, at 5:48 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: >> >>> The real hassle is tracking down the little things. Just found I needed to >>> get the Favourites saved for Transmit and then find were they are! Of >>> course I could have laboriously entered them all at the keyboard >>> Severin >>> On 02/03/2012, at 5:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Severin >>>> >>>> Glad the rebuild went well and (mostly) everything is running better then >>>> it was. >>>> I always enjoy to read when other people go through the process of a >>>> rebuild and get to see what's actually involved in it. >>>> As I never migrate any data for each new machine I get (new laptop roughly >>>> every 1-2 years), I've pretty much got the setup/rebuild down to a day now. >>>> But if/when I'm working on a clients machine and explaining that I need it >>>> for the best part of a day if I'm going to do theirs they often look at me >>>> in wonder. (I can pretty much now do a back up and erase and install from >>>> scratch for a clients machine in almost a night now too). So it's good to >>>> see when someone realises the work involved in it. :)) >>>> (Thankfully these days it's rare to have to do a full install from >>>> scratch,....) :o) >>>> Well done in attacking and completing the task! :) >>>> (Now, if I could only apply the same thinking to clearing out "the junk >>>> room", then I'd be set!! lol). >>>> >>>> Kind regards >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Daniel Kerr >>>> MacWizardry >>>> >>>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>>> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >>>> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>>> >>>> >>>> **For everything Macintosh** >>>> >>>> On 02/03/2012, at 3:18 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: >>>> >>>>> A couple of weeks ago I posted regarding thorough system purges and clean >>>>> outs. The view was that a clean install and reinstall applications was >>>>> really the only way to go. I have done just that, with all safeguards in >>>>> place and many backups. It was a VERY long and time consuming task with >>>>> many hidden settings and bits that had to be located and brought over from >>>>> a saved clone though in general I did all setting up from scratch where >>>>> possible. After about ten days, running the new and old Lions in parallel >>>>> on separate disks I am more or less there though still finding things >>>>> needing a tweak each day. Of the minor glitches I started with, the >>>>> reason for the operation, all but one are gone. iProfiler (from X-Rite) >>>>> still keeps telling me my monitor needs reprofiling even though it was >>>>> done an hour ago. I guess I can live with that, X-Rite can offer no >>>>> solution and are as puzzled as I am, especially as it used to work a month >>>>> or so ago. >>>>> My main impression is of a much snappier machine overall so in retrospect >>>>> it was worth it. 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