Clean install and migration

Yesterday I installed Leopard clean on an empty partition on an external drive, and used migration assistant to bring over all my accounts and apps. It worked flawlessly, and only one app had transfer problems (missing sync), which leopard warned me of at the end of the install. No sweat.
So far, no problems at all, and I have to say that on this G5 imac, leopard is certainly faster than tiger. I'm pleasantly surprised. No problems with internet connection, mail, etc., and I have my kids banging away trying to find any problems. If all goes well, I'm not sure if I'll clone back to the internal, or erase and install on the internal and use migration assistant to bring over the accounts and apps from the external. Any suggestions?

If the current installation meets all of your expectations, then I suggest cloning the Tiger volume to another partition on the external (for use if anything screwy eventually pops up—I still have Panther backed up), checking it out, and just cloning the new Leopard to the internal. Just my 2¢

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Clean install and migration of only one or two program

How does one do a clean install and migrate only one or two applications.

I don't believe there is a "clean install" on the Snow Leopard disk if you launch the install from your standard system boot. I believe you need to:
1) Put the SL disk in the machine drive.
2) Restart your machine.
3) Hold down the 'c' key during startup, to boot from the SL disk.
4) Once the system boots up, it starts the Snow Leopard install process. However, you have a menu bar where you can run several system utilities, such as Disk Utility.
5) Run Disk Utility and erase/reformat the main system harddisk. This will give you a "clean" disk to install Snow Leopard on.
6) After Disk Utility finishes, proceed with the install process.
7) After intallation of Snow Leopard, restore any apps/data you want from backups and/or original installation packages.
Hope this helps,
j0hn

Recently upgraded Mac 24" to Lion (clean install) and now no external hard disks work with Time Machine

Recently upgraded Mac 24" to Lion (clean install) and now no external hard disks work with Time Machine.
installed new internal disk first with fresh 10.7.3 Lion software. Also upgrade ram to 4GB. Work great, super fast.
BUT.... my WD 1TB firewire400 external disks no longer work with the Lion enabled machine now.
FURTHER... I read somewhere that WD is problematic with Lion but Seagate was not... so I went and bought a new 3TB Seagate GoFlex.
When it didnt work properly either, I patiently searched and found a software/firward upgrade and applied.
I re-partitioned disk to extened/journaled standard, etc.
Then assigned the particition to Time Machine. Drive turned the blue/grey color, so I thought it would work.
But, it has now been in "preparing" mode in Time Machine for HOURS....
What is up Apple? So dissappointed. Ive read these type of problems are notorious with Lion and I wish I never upgraded.
Are you trying to make issues with External disks, to drive people to iCloud? That trick ont work in me. I will not reward bad behaviour Apple.
Please provide a fix... I wasted hours/days screwing around with this, instead of using the Mac for what its intended!

Solved by Pondini, on another thread I opened...
Answer:
Sounds like either:
A directory problem on your internal HD. Verify your internal HD, and Repair any other volumes being backed-up per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Something in OSX may be damaged. You've tried the "combo," so a fresh copy of OSX (that won't disturb anything else) would be worth a try (and you don't need a tech for that). See Installing the ''combo'' update and/or Reinstalling OSX.

Clean install and restore from Time Machine: Will i lose my applications ?

I want to do a Snow Leopard clean install instead of a an upgrade.
1) How do I do the clean install and restore it from Time machine during the install ?
2) If I do the clean install and restore from Leopard's time machine backup, will I retaing all my applications or I will only retain my personal files ?
- If I don't retain my applications, how will my photos in iPhoto be restored without iPhoto ?

If you did a complete TM backup, then all your files, users, settings, and programs will be restored. You will have the opportunity to restore using TM at the end of the install. I would back at least my data up separately.
To erase and install (i.e., clean install), start up to your DVD and stop after selecting your language. Use the menus to start Disk Utility and erase your drive. Quit Disk Utility and proceed with your installation. At the end, you will be able to choose to reclaim your settings, files, and apps from TM.
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Clean install and transferring applications

I just bought a brand new MacBook Pro a year and a half ago with the top performing quadcore i7 with 8GB of RAM. Ever since I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Lion. I have had some serious performance issues. I have already done a time reinstall and still have the same performance problems, which is pretty poor and a very hot core. I have read that doing a clean install and transfering file from the TM results in noticably better performance. I have never done this before so I like to know the risks and can I transfer my applications (pages, keynotes, word, powerpoint, ect.)

Yes, that is an option although you will need to take care you do not restore from backup something that is the direct cause of your problems.
All your applications may be reinstalled from the App Store or installation DVDs depending upon where and how they were purchased.
Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
      left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
        the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
      the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
            because it is three times faster than wireless.

Clean Install and Software Restore CDs

Hi,
I have had my iBook G4 since February 2004. Yesterday I did a Clean Install and completely erased my HD. I used Install Disc 1 and 2. However, I was never prompted to insert Disc 3. Did I miss something?
Also, I also found the 8 Software Restore Discs. What exactly is "software restore"? After reading the pdf file and searching around these boards, I still could not find a definitive answer. What software is restored? The only application I seem to see missing is GarageBand.
Thanks,
DBDevil

Any software that you are missing from when you first got your ibook brand new should be there. It should also give you the option of which ones to install and such.

Clean install and Mail/itunes

I want to do a clean install and wipe my hard disk etc but I then like to put on my old mail and itunes library etc. What do I have to do that i.e. what folders do I need to bring back from Time Machine. And where do I put them etc?
Thanks

I had to reinstall Leopard for reasons unrelated to Leopard. When I did this reinstallation, the vertical quirk went away. Very strange.

Did a leopard clean install and restored via time machine

Hi
Just done a leopard clean install and restored data via time machine, now when i run time machine i cant go back in time to restore other bits and bobs, any ideas
thanks

This is not meant to be a snide comment, but I use Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper not TM. Used TM for a while but got tired of it, changed to CCC and then when Super Duper was updated for Leopard moved back to SD. I like it because (both SD and CCC) can be scheduled for whenever you want to run it and it only backs up files that have changed since last update. It also produces a bootable disk.

IMac Clean install and now won't install Lion 10.7.5

My mid 2007 iMac was haveing trouble connecting to the internet via a browser and I took it into the Genius Bar and their only suggestion was to do a clean install and then see what happens. I wiped the computer and tried a clean install. It wouldn't install OS X 10.7 Lion (which this computer was previously running). I took it back into the Genius Bar and they had to install 10.6 Snow Leopard. And now it won't upgrade to Lion (that it used to run till it started having problems).
What's going on?
Now, 3 weeks later, on our other mid 2007 iMac is starting to have the same issues.
Is there something wrong with the OS? I go to network diagnostics and it says it is connecting to the internet just fine. But it won't connect via a browser or do software updates.
I go to Airport Utilities and it wants me to forget the AirPort Extreme. Exact thing happened on the other iMac and I couldn't ever recover (or discover) the Extreme.
Help !!!!!!!!

You mean 2011 or do you mean Mountain Lion? Lion came out in mid 2011 and ML in 2012. And yes, 7,1 is the model identifier. Here is something I found on running the current OS:
From this site:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-2-duo-2.0-20-inch-alu minum-specs.html
Did you try recovery?
Not sure if your machine would be able to qualify for the recovery disk assistant (since yours would need the assistant to create a recovery partition)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
If that works, you should try using the recovery option (hit Command + Option + R during restart) to connect to Apple's servers and reinstall Lion.

I did a clean install and lost all of my iweb data and settings. My site is up and published through yahoo's server. Is there a way to retrieve/import so I can make changes?? HELP!

I did a clean install and lost all of my iweb data and settings.
My site is up and published through yahoo's server.
Is there a way to retrieve/import so I can make changes?? HELP!
Can I do this through wordpress or using html code?
Thanks!

Is there a way to retrieve/import so I can make changes?? HELP!
It's often asked and answered.
Search this forum for similar disasters : lost iweb file
The answer usually is No. You'll have to start from scratch. Unless you have a backup.
Can I do this through wordpress or using html code
No.

Is it possible to migrate BCM 2003 data to BCM 2010 w/o first installing and migrating it to BCM 2007?

Obviously. I have my BCM built on the Office 2003 Outlook 2003 BCM platform. Now with a change of operating systems and various upgrades including the installation of Office 2010 with Outlook 2010 w/BCM, I seem to have no pathway to import my 2003
BCM Backup. I am now without access to my BCM database information and seriously compromised in my business. Therefore the question: Is it possible to migrate BCM 2003 data to BCM 2010 w/o first installing and migrating it to Outlook
2007 w/BCM?
Thanks Den

The reason I want to use the Back up and Restore process is I really want to retain my original Create Date on my Business Contacts
I will try to answer your questions below:
Question: Is there a URL to download BCM 2007 … I haven’t been able to find one anymore – I saw one a couple years ago but can’t find it now.
As info, I am running this on a Test System so I know exactly how to get BCM 2003 to BCM 2010 with the Create Date intact.
Yes, I have admin status.
BCM seems to work fine after I installed it. I didn’t go through an extensive test though.
What do you suggest I do to confirm BCM is working since I don’t have any data in it?
After I submitted my question to this forum, I tested the Export / Import method of getting my data to BCM 2010.
I confirmed the Create Date is the Import date. Drat!
Then I restored the OS System to the point where I had installed Office 2010 w/ BCM.
Then I Ran the install of the newer version of BCM. It “discovered” there was a BCM version already there and asked me if I wanted to delete it.
I deleted it or the install deleted it … I can’t quite remember.
Ran the install.
OK, here’s some weirdness I noticed:
The Download of the “newest” version of BCM I just downloaded is: V-4.00.12006.00
(KB 2793723.)
When I looked at the version number – File > BCM It stated I had BCM V-4.00.12006.00
This confirms the installation worked.
I ran the Restore from the backup of BCM 2003 and it states it has to convert from 2.03606.0 to 4.0.9812.0.
I knew it would have to do a conversion.
BUT, it states it’s going to convert to version 4.0.9812.0 NOT version 4.00.12006.00!!!!
How did Version 4.00.12006.00
get there?
Which one is the newest one?
Any thoughts??
I clicked “OK” to start the migration.
After a while I got the “Database Migration Unsuccessful” message.
Below are some errors I found in the Event Viewer > Application.
The date on them is about a week before the latest attempt to go from BCM 2003 to BCM 2010.
They are not from the restore I just described because they don’t have the date I ran the latest restore.
Any thoughts??
Event Viewer > Application log:
============================================================
1st Event Error:
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Event Type:
Error
Event Source:
MSSQL$MSSMLBIZ
Event Category:
Server
Event ID:
15151
Date:
2/3/2014
Time:
6:51:22 PM
User:
N/A
Computer:
TEST-PC-01
Description:
Cannot find the object 'fulltext_stopwords', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
For more information, see Help and <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Support</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></place> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 2f 3b 00 00 10 00 00 00
0008: 14 00 00 00 54 00 45 00
....T.E.
0010: 53 00 54 00 2d 00 50 00
S.T.-.P.
0018: 43 00 2d 00 30 00 31 00
C.-.0.1.
0020: 5c 00 4d 00 53 00 53 00
\.M.S.S.
0028: 4d 00 4c 00 42 00 49 00
M.L.B.I.
0030: 5a 00 00 00 05 00 00 00
Z.......
0038: 6d 00 73 00 64 00 62 00
m.s.d.b.
0040: 00 00
============================================================
Event Error somewhere in the Middle of the list of errors.
============================================================
Event Type:
Error
Event Source:
MSSQL$MSSMLBIZ
Event Category:
Server
Event ID:
15151
Date:
2/3/2014
Time:
6:51:22 PM
User:
N/A
Computer:
TEST-PC-01
Description:
Cannot find the object 'system_columns', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
For more information, see Help and <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Support</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></place> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 2f 3b 00 00 10 00 00 00
0008: 14 00 00 00 54 00 45 00
....T.E.
0010: 53 00 54 00 2d 00 50 00
S.T.-.P.
0018: 43 00 2d 00 30 00 31 00
C.-.0.1.
0020: 5c 00 4d 00 53 00 53 00
\.M.S.S.
0028: 4d 00 4c 00 42 00 49 00
M.L.B.I.
0030: 5a 00 00 00 05 00 00 00
Z.......
0038: 6d 00 73 00 64 00 62 00
m.s.d.b.
0040: 00 00
============================================================
Last Event Error
============================================================
Event Type:
Error
Event Source:
MSSQL$MSSMLBIZ
Event Category:
Server
Event ID:
15151
Date:
2/3/2014
Time:
6:51:22 PM
User:
N/A
Computer:
TEST-PC-01
Description:
Cannot find the object 'all_objects', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
For more information, see Help and <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Support</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></place> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 2f 3b 00 00 10 00 00 00
0008: 14 00 00 00 54 00 45 00
....T.E.
0010: 53 00 54 00 2d 00 50 00
S.T.-.P.
0018: 43 00 2d 00 30 00 31 00
C.-.0.1.
0020: 5c 00 4d 00 53 00 53 00
\.M.S.S.
0028: 4d 00 4c 00 42 00 49 00
M.L.B.I.
0030: 5a 00 00 00 05 00 00 00
Z.......
0038: 6d 00 73 00 64 00 62 00
m.s.d.b.
0040: 00 00

Clean install and selective migration?

Hi,
First a bit of background:
I have 2 Macs, a 2009 Mac Pro and a Late 2011 MBP 17".
The Mac Pro was originally Leopard, then Snow. I decided it was getting risky and upgraded to 10.8.5. No issues.
The MacBook Pro came with Lion. I wanted to upgrate that to 10.8.5 too. Oh my goodness what a nightmare!
In brief: Upgraded MBP to ML. At the same time it did a firmware update for Thunderbolt. Ever since this, it proves very hit or miss with booting – it tends to hang before the login screen (spinning beachball of death). I have done all the SMC and NVRAM resets, and eventually did a clean install of Mountain Lion, then used Migration assistant to copy everything from the MacPro. It still seems to have issues. Apple tech support say that it cannot be software if I've reinstalled everything, but they did say I should NOT have migrated the users over. Not sure why.
Anyway, I took it in to an authorised service centre and they said it could be the HD on its way out (although SMART status is ok). They recommended that I replace the HD with an SSD. However, as I have loads of client and personal data on my HD, I cannot send my MBP away for someone to clone etc, and dispose of the old HD without me knowing how well they disposed of it.
So, I've just secure formatted the whole machine. When I came to restart, it wanted to install Lion rather than ML. I was surprised, as I'd heard that once you update the OS, the firmware gets rewritten so you can't go back. Anyway, I loaded Lion, then reinstalled ML. So now I have a clean install on the HD. I did this so that when they swap the HD for the 1TB Crucial M500, they can set me up with ML all ready to go, not give me back a Lion machine.
So, anyway, with all that as preamble, these are my questions:
1 - The Apple tech said that I should not migrate users. But I do want to get all my email history etc back. If I migrate "data", will I be able to create a new user and get it back to how it was?
2 - Applications-wise I personally would rather rebuild from scratch as my Mac Pro has got so many out of date apps that I don't really want to migrate, but what I'm concerned about is that I cannot find my MS Office 2008 disks, so ideally I'd like to migrate that. In other words, is it possible to choose which apps I migrate across using Migration Assistant?
Or am I really going to be forced to migrate users, apps and everything? And does anyone know why Apple tech think this might be the cause of the problem?
Sorry, I lknow that's a lot to read but I always think background info is useful.
Thanks in advance. I'm off to take the MBP in to have the SSD fitted, but will need your advice for setting it up when I get it back.

A few things...
1. Updating the firmware doesn't preclude loading an older version of the OS. Depending on the machine and the firmware, it may set up Internet Recovery with something different than what you're installing. For example, the firmware update may set up Lion as the Internet Recovery system, then you install Snow Leopard. You can do it, it's just that if you use Internet Recovery it'll use Lion.
2. Your problem could be the hard drive, or it could be the SATA cable. The way I normally test this is to move the drive to an external enclosure and boot from it by holding down the Option key and selecting it. If it runs fine from there, the SATA cable is the problem.
3. You really don't need tech support to do this, it's all pretty straightforward. By all means use them if you're uncomfortable doing this kind of thing, but the problem is you may get it back with the same problems. Especially if it is a SATA cable, as an SSD is only going to give you more errors than the HD did.
4. Migration Assistant gives you the option of moving Applications, Data, or Settings. You can move any or all of those categories, but not selectively. If you move Applications it'll move all of them.
5. As far as not migrating users... the reason to not do this is in case there's some software loading for the user that's causing problems. An easy way to find out if that's the case is to set your machine up with a clean install then clone it with something like Carbon Copy Cloner to an external drive. Now do your migration. If the migration causes problems, just copy the clone back onto the drive.
Here's the procedure for changing a drive in your model:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+17-Inch+Unibody+Hard+Drive+Replacement/3 401

Can't open after archive install and migration

Hi there, so heres the deal. I recently posted an issue I had with my imac and turned out the only way to save all my data was to do an archive and install. So I upgraded my HD at the same time to a 2 TB. They then installed OS X and did migration with my old drive. Also the reason I had to new drive was because the previous 500 GB drive was nearly full. Anyways, got my computer back today and everything is pretty good aside from missing quicktime 7 in utilities and a couple drivers and my printers but so far thats it aside from FC studio 2. They just won't open so I read some threads on that and seems like majority say to do a clean install of OS x and I just don't want to do that as I finally got everything normal again. I was thinking of just deleting the apps and reinstalling them but figured I would come on here and see if I could get a second opinion. Thanks for your time
Nat

Well for starters I can't back up cause I am away from home and my time machine drive is at home. But if i were to get it home and run a back up would it just back up everything as is right now which is in error. When i say data I mean all the stuff on my imac HD. Documents, photos, movies etc. Something needs to be done cause i see this problem has went to my iphoto as well. Can't open it which is not good. I put a few photos on there since my last back up. Luckily i do still have the drive that cause the was swapped out that still has some of the data on it. So if one was to do a proper reinstall or clean install, what is the process.

Clean install and selective restores from Time Machine?

Hi, all.
Just purchased a 13-inch non-Retina MBP last week. Swaped out the 500GB drive for a 1TB, upgraded to Mavericks and transfered all my data from a 2006-era white iMac running Leopard via Time Machine. I've had some connectivity issues (logins at app store failing, server verification errors in iTunes, and not being able launch the software that allows the folks at Apple to view my screen via chat) and after a few nights on the phone and in chat with Apple support, they've recommended booting in recovery since nothing else is working, wiping the hard drive, and performing a clean install of Mavericks. The assumption is that something from the migration is causing the issue.
I've created a fresh Time Machine backup on an external 1TB drive, and I'm mainly concerned with moving over the documents, Lightroom 4 library, iPhoto library, and iTunes library.Will I just be able to enter Time Machine and restore those or, failing that, manually drag and drop them into the user library? Are there any user permissions I need to be concerned about?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks, I figured as much. Another foolish question: should I be concerned about user permissions if I'm starting over? Can I transfer the users (there are only two, me and my wife) over from Time Machine? Trying to start as fresh as possible since no one can figure out what's causing the connectivity issues.

Clean Install and Restore from Time Machine

Hi All,
Just after some advice, I'm thinking of doing a clean install of OS X when Mavericks comes out. I've been a Mac user for 13 years and have always used Migration Assistant to move my data over whenever I've bought a new Mac. I've never done a clean install before, but I've noticed over the years all the crap that's floating around my hard drive from old Mac's and various files from software I've removed years ago. I'm sure there's tons of rubbish that's accumulated over the 13 years.
Someone suggested clean installing OS X and then using Migration Assistant to load all my data back on from a Time Machine backup, but customise what I want to restore. I was told that if I don't choose to restore System Settings or something similar then it should just restore all my other stuff such as apps, files, itunes and iphoto library, etc. but would leave out all the rubbish. Is that the case?

TJ Skywasher wrote:
Someone suggested clean installing OS X and then using Migration Assistant to load all my data back on from a Time Machine backup, but customise what I want to restore.
Largely agreeing with baltwo, it's probably not worthwhile.
I was told that if I don't choose to restore System Settings or something similar then it should just restore all my other stuff such as apps, files, itunes and iphoto library, etc. but would leave out all the rubbish. Is that the case?
No. If you transfer everything with Setup Assistant when the Mac first starts (preferred), or Migration Assistant later, and leave everything selected, it will transfer everything except OSX (which you just replaced) -- all your apps, user home folders, data, settings, etc. There's rarely a point to that.
With either Assistant, you can omit some broad categories of things, but you can't "pick and choose" individual items even if you knew which ones you wanted. See Using Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion. Read the first few paragraphs, then scroll down to the Transfer Your Information windows and the pink boxes below them for details. The windows and procedures for Mavericks may be somewhat different, but functionally the same.
If your Mac is just full of junk, be sure it's well backed-up just in case, then delete what you know you don't need.
If it's sluggish, after trying everything else, as a last resort you might want to do a clean install transferring everything except apps, then reinstall the extra and 3rd-party apps you want from the original discs or re-download them. If you have a lot (you probably have more than you think), that can be a daunting task. You''ll also need the serial numbers / purchase keys for them.

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