HT4718 will i lose personal files with a mountain lion reinstall??

will i lose personal files with a mountain lion reinstall??

Not unless you go out of your way to erase the disk, first.
However, nothing is foolproof and the probability of something going wrong during the reinstall is inversely proportional to the number of backups you have.

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