Migration or clean install? (can plists become dirty?)

In a few days I will migrate to a new MacBookPro.
I have used migration from the old MacBookPro to the new one for the past 2 generations.
I was wondering whether it is better to do a clean install, just copy some data over (iPhoto & iTunes libraries, etc.), but otherwise not do an automatic migration at setup time.
The reason why I am asking is that I am wondering whether plist files and such can become "dirty" over time ...
If so, the quesion is whether it is worth the hassle and time to not use migration assistant.
All insights and suggestions will be appreciated.
Best,
Gabriel.

If you feel your actual Mac slow, don't use Migration Assistant, because your new Mac will be as slow as the old Mac. However, if it's fast and it works correctly, you can use Migration Assistant without any problem. Furthermore, you can restore the files you want.
Of course, you will get some waste files if you use Migration Assistant, but if they don't affect to the performance and they don't take so much space, don't worry about them

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Kernel panic after time machine migration after clean install of 107.3

I had the hard drive replaced in in my mid 2009 17" MacBook pro. After the clean install of lion I migrated my data from time machine (lion) to the new clean partition.. Upon completion the machine is unresponsive. The progress wheel turning for 10 minutes. I force quit and restart to kernel panic. I have been through this 3 times same sequence of events same results. Any ideas?
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Clean install - can I save my old internet settings for wireless router

I am upgrading to Leopard with a clean install. My only concern is that my sister got my computer hooked up to our wireless router ages ago and I'm afriad I won't be able to get back on wireless afterwards.
Is there a way to backup this information, these settings, to my external drive to reinstall once I've done the reinstall?
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uhhh, I think the 2nd thing you said...
We bought a wireless router to work with our pre-existing internet service. She had to put in some disk and go to some website with a bunch of numbers as an "address" and type in some stuff. Something about WEP keys and such (that I obviously don't understand enough to remember clearly). It was quite a hassle is mostly what I remember.
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GUID Partition Scheme - Need clean install: can I restore files from TM?

So, here's my problem. I have an Intel PowerMac (first series after the G5) and when I try to install SL I get the following error message: "Can't Install Snow Leopard Since Disk Does Not Use GUID Partition Scheme". I guess it's something related to the fact thet I previously upgraded from an old iMac with a PPC processor (Apple partition vs. GUID partition).
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"Anyway, accoding to my understanding, the only solution for me is to do a clean install by wiping the HD and re-partitioning it."
Right, except that your drive will automatically be erased when you set up the GUID partitiion.
"Now, my question is: can I use my current TM backup to later restore apps/prefs onto the new SL system? I believe that TM now has an Apple partition scheme that reflects the one I have on Leopard 10.5. Is that right? Will I encounter any problem because of the different partition type of TM?"
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What to migrate after clean install of Mavericks?

Hi,
I just did a hard drive wipe and a clean install of Mavericks from a thumb drive installer onto my iMac. I'm not sure which things to select in Migration Assistant. I'd like to know what kinds of things are restored if I migrate from the checkbox options: 1) it has my name, 2) other files and folders, 3) computer and network settings. I'm presuming I shouldn't migrate anything from my applications folder.
Also, before the clean install I backed everything up on an external hard drive, which has a couple of TB of info. Will the migration assistant, if I select other files and folders grab everything else on that hard drive and attempt to install it on my iMac?
What's missing is Messages history, mail acccounts, etc.
And I have had itunes set up on an external drive. When I open itunes, it doesn't show any of my podcasts or music, just my apple purchases. I selected the folder name on that hard drive in itunes preferences, quit and reopened itunes, but still nothing.
And I'm not sure how to get my iPad syncing info activated in itunes.
Thanks very much for any help with any of this

How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac.
The above should help you out with using MA. Also, see Using Migration Assistant on Lion or Mountain Lion.

T400 Windows 7 or Vista Clean Install - Can't Detect Hard Drive

I've attempted to install Windows Vista x64 and Windows 7 x64 using retail copies of both OS's on my T400. Neither OS can find the hard drive during the install process. I've downloaded every driver possible from Lenovo and loaded them via USB during the install, with absolutely no luck. I've installed Ubuntu in the meantime to have a usable computer, but I really need Win7 on there, so I have to figure this out. Any solutions? (and telling me to go download the driver isn't going to help me). Also, I've messed around with the AHCI setting in the BIOS, but that didn't help either.
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Weird. Win 7 Pro 64 installed on my T400 without any issues that I can recall. I realize that doesn't help you much
I was doing a clean upgrade install using a Microsoft upgrade DVD over the top of a Vista installation.
Since you've already tried fiddling the ACHI/IDE mode the only other thing I can think is something about your initial disk partitioning or formatting (or lack of same) confused the installers. (I realize a confused MS installer is hard to imagine...)
Maybe fire up your Ubuntu live CD and dd some zeros to the first few sectors of your drive and try again. Or format the thing w/your choice of FAT32 partitions and see if that makes the installer(s) happier.
What model drive are you using? Is it the original drive (not that it should matter, mine wasn't)? What was installed on the machine initially?
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Clean Mavericks Install - Can you selectively transfer Time Machine Contents

Hello,
My iMac, running OS X Mavericks, has been slowing down more and more for unknown reasons. I've heard that this tends to be a problem in the OS X world and a clean install can be a remedy.
I am familiar with the process of formating/clean installing in OS X; my concerns and unfamiliarity are with selective-file-pulling from my time machine backup, instead of using it for a full restore.
Basically - once my iMac is back to a clean slate with a newly installed OS X Mavericks - my top priority will be getting iPhoto back in order. I'm thinking that simply importing the iPhoto archive that can be found in the Time Machine backup will bring all my pictures back onto the computer, along with album titles, slideshows, etc, all within iPhoto. Can anyone please confirm this?
I've only ever done this kind of stuff in the Microsoft Windows world, where dragging and dropping folders from a backup drive is a possiblity, and I want to make sure I'm not incorrectly approaching all of this with a Window's mindset.
Feel free to share your experiences, good or bad, with attempting this very strategy.
Thanks!

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for details.

Help with Mac OS X Lion clean install

I have a late 2008 15" MacBook Pro that has Lion installed which was upgraded over Snow Leopard. I have heard that performing a clean install can freshen up the system and is just generally a good thing to do. When I downloaded Lion from the Mac App Store I made a bootable disc because I heard it's something good to have just in case. I have also been backing up to an enxternal hard drive using Time Machine. So I was thinking about doing a clean install but I wanted to make sure of a few things and to get your thoughts on if it is actually a good idea or a waste of time.
I would format my hard drive then restart and hold down the option key, choose to boot from the disc and clean install. Once finished use Migration Assistant to move my data from the external hard drive with my Time Machine back ups and that should be everything done and dusted.
I know I have probably got something wrong somewhere and have maybe even got the completely wrong idea about the whole thing.
I would appreciate any help and advice, thanks.

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If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal 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:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.

Does Running a Zeros Erase + Clean Install of SL Fix Glitchy Bugs ?

Hi Guys & Gals...
I'm just asking the questions as I know from previous and past experience a clean install can be a very dangerous this to do.... I have lost data before.... doing this procedure.... but I must say... it nearly always delivers a fix to software problems the normal route of repairing permissions never seems to deliver.
This time I have all my Data on a 8TB Drobo Drive... so I'm confident I won't loose any important data.... but I do know I will have to slowly... piece by piece build back up my entire system.... enter numerous serial numbers and software updates etc... but I think it might be my only resort at this stage.
I have been having issues with Photoshop ever since I updated to Snow Leopard. My main issue was that I couldn't have numerous windows open... as in I would find it difficult to select the window I would be working in... sometimes what Photoshop would be showing me wasn't the file I was working on. I would close it down... and then realise I closed down the main file I was working on... and it wouldn't even ask me if I wanted to save the file and I would loose all the work I had just done. That would be my major issue... also.... opening numerous high resolution TIFF files would normally end up in Photoshop just quitting. I have 8GB of RAM which always served me well under Leopard and Tiger.
Now Photoshop won't even open two documents without quitting and it's very erratic behavior... sometime it will open them... others it won't... so I really want to sort this before my workload starts to intensify.... which is about 1-2 weeks away.
The new issue is with Quark.... it just keeps quitting on certain files.... but when I move these self same files over onto my MacBook Pro... they open fine... OK I could use my MacBook for some edits... but it's a 15" screen as opposed to my normal 3-" working screen and it's really not the way to be working...
So all in all I find myself here... wanting to do a complete erase and install. When I did upgarde from Leopard to Snow Leopard I usually would have done an erase and clean install... but I was busy and couldn't afford the down time and anxious to experience Snow Leopard so I went ahead and just did the software upgrade.
My question is.... will I really be only wasting my time... as I know it will take days... if not weeks to get fully everything back to the way it was.... but if I can eradicate these issues... while I have this window of opportunity.... maybe it will be worth it..
Any comments... please.... would be most welcome... as I'm planning the Zeros Erase + Install for tomorrow.
Yours sincerely,
Anthony
Irish MacUser and MacAddict
Message was edited by: Anthony MacCarthy

MacOS X 10.6.2 still has quite a few crashing bugs. So does every other OS on the planet. It certainly has far fewer of those than any Adobe product.
I was talking about the specific Mac OS bugs that have plagued me personally since 10.5.0 under Photoshop CS3 and CS4 — these are known, documented crashers within the OSX operating system that Apple hasn't fixed in 10.6.2.
There are also new OSX bugs that were introduced in 10.6.0 that also crash Photoshop CS4 (according to my troubleshooting and high-level Photoshop engineers who've looked at my numerous crash reports on a freshly 'zeroed' 10.6.2 hard drive with only Photoshop CS4 added on).
Yes, RAM was ruled out, and Apple replaced my logic board, processors, matching video cards during the process. They even replaced a 30" monitor that failed.
I even duplicated the OP's specific problem (working with several files open, dragging layers between windows) on a remote Adobe machine using special debug software for the engineers. I did this in less than eight minutes and told them exactly where the crash occurred.
writing zeros to any hard drive is a waste of time.
I am not too sure what Apple's Disk Utility> Security Option (zero) does these days — if it remaps bad blocks or if it will fail the 'zero' process when it hits them as it 'tests' each and every block on the drive — so I won't comment further other to say I "zero" every Mac I get (new or used), every new hard drive I install, and every suspect hard drive.
So for now, I will stick to my opinion that the 'zero' option is far from useless here to make a troubleshooting point to the engineers or support techs.
I have no doubt 10.6.2 is very unstable for certain users - mainly those users who want to run unsupported software.
If you are saying Photoshop CS4 is "unsupported" software, then I agree with your point — then the simple point here becomes: Photoshop does not run reliably on the Mac OSX platform in a professional environment.
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I have to say I've done all the troubleshooting (with both level two Apple support and Adobe engineers) to know what I am talking when it comes to CS3 and CS4 Photoshop problems on Intel machines running 10.5x and 10.6x.
I think the benefit of these forums is to get a wide variety of opinions from people who actually use the software on a daily basis, and from those people who actually know how to make the Mac OS work and those who know how to troubleshoot it effectively.
My point is Photoshop runs like crap for some people on OSX 10.5x and 10.6x, so don't waste too much time trying to figure it out once you ruled out the hardware and install....

Clean Install: from Recovery Disk vs. from USB Flash Drive

Planning to do a clean install on my MBP running Yosemite. Have come across two ways of doing this: From the Recovery Disk or from a USB Flash Drive.
If the clean install can be done by using the Recovery Disk, why would you do one using a USB drive?
Is there any benefit to the USB drive method? Basically I want to know if one way is preferable over the other.
I want to make sure I wipe everything, as my machine's been slow/glitchy since OS X Yosemite was first installed/updated; I'm also not sure if I have picked up anything else along the way. (I'm pretty careful with my browsing/downloading, but I like to be sure.)
Thanks for any help.

The advantage of the USB drive is that you do not need an Internet connection. If you do not have a solid Internet connection or the Apple servers are down, you may be dead in the water. The only possible advantage of using the recovery option is that the latest version of the given OSX will be available. That may not be the same as what is installed on the USB drive.
Before you use either option, make certain that you have your data backed up.
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Clean install and time capsule restore question

Hello apple community,
This is my first post ever, so here goes nothing..
I have a 2010 MBP and I want to do a clean install of lion. The reason is: 1. I just want to, and 2. I have noticed some performance issues due to all the crap I have downloaded throughout my time in college.
I have not made a Lion install disk because I do not have the media to put it on. So I am thinking about doing a clean install of SL (which I have the disk for) and then doing all the updates, etc.. (sounds painful, doesnt it?)
The MAIN reason I am posting this, is to ask: After I complete my clean install, can I access my time capsule and recover individual files (pictures, music, movies, ect..)? Or do I have to select "recover from time machine back-up" during my clean install? To me that last option seems silly and pointless, but I am unsure if I can access my back ups after doing a clean install. I would really hate to pull the trigger and find out that I cannot get to my files.
-Also, assuming that I CAN access my idividual files on my time capsule, are there any limits to what I can restore? I'd like to restore apps that I didn't get thru the app store (school stuff).
Thanks, I really appreciate the input.
Matt.

You can access the Time Machine data outside the GUI. If you have a Time Capsule, you will go into its hard disk through Finder and mount the sparsebundle. Once mounted, you can choose a date and any file. Drag and drop.
You may run into permissions issues, so it is imperative that if you modify permissions for a folder you do not modify the home folder or its immediate folders. For example, if your short name is "murdauch", which contains Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc., you would neither modify the permissions for /users/murdauch/ nor /users/username/documents/. Instead, you might modify the permissions for /users/murdauch/documents/recovered-from-backup/.

Clean Install Questions - Lion

After reading through a few discussions, it sounds like performing a clean install would help with a lot of the issues I am experiencing with Lion. 1) I already have Lion installed, 2) I have added a bunch of stuff since my backup prior to Lion, so I can't use that backup for the clean install.
Basically I would like to clean up all the random folders on my computer without losing any of my information. Basically folders like System and Library are probably filled with junk I don't use anymore, applications I didn't uninstall correctly, random junk, etc. and hopefully a clean install can get rid of all this. I would like for all of my preferences to carry over (not necessarily overall system settings as these are pretty easy to change) but preferences for specific apps. I would also really like it if all of the stock Apple apps would get reinstalled because I have some duplicate apps (chess, text edit, stickies, image capture, etc.) that I cannot delete.
I wouldn't be opposed to doing a clean install and then only moving over the apps I use, my music, my photos, etc. but I am worried that other things will be affected. For instance not being able to sync my iphone because it won't recognize my computer?
Any insight on this would be really helpful; specifically what the process of a clean install is (cmd+R .....), and what files are affected.

skaiser wrote:
I already have Lion installed so I can't download the installer again
Actually you can.
"To redownload the installer on a computer running OS X Lion, press and hold the Option key while you click the Purchases tab. If the button to the right of the Install Mac OS X Lion item doesn't change to "Install" and allow you to download Lion, use Spotlight to search for "Install Mac OS X Lion" on your computer."
I haven't tried this out yet as I'm setting up my machine on another OS right now.
You can backup your files to a external drive, disconnect and then hold command + r to enter the Recovery Partition looks like this.
You need a internet connection, so just have a Ethernet connection before you boot into Recovery, it's easiest as Wifi is flaky here.
You can download and reinstall Lion again right over Lion already installed.

Help to do Clean install OSX Mavericks

I am using osx Mavericks now by upgrading from osx Mountain Lion, I am not feeling better after upgrading, so decided to clean install Mavericks on my Macbook Pro13' 2012 model.Can anyone please assist me to do clean install osx with directions means step by step or picture view.If anyone help me to do this i fell

The default solution for installing OS X Mavericks is to download it free app store and then perform an upgrade from a previous version of Mac OS X, whether that’s from Mountain Lion or Snow Leopard. Upgrades are fast, efficient, and most important, very easy, and that’s the recommended option for the vast majority of Mac users. Nonetheless, some users may want to start fresh with a blank slate, using what’s known as a “clean install” and that’s what we’re going to cover here. Performing a clean install can be desirable for a variety of reasons, from ditching years of built-up cruft on older Macs from many years of OS X upgrades, to troubleshooting difficult issues, to transferring ownership of a Mac to a new owner.
The process of a clean install is not difficult if you follow these instructions, but because it involves formatting the Macs hard drive, it can result in extra work. Since the Mac will start with a clean slate, all apps must be downloaded and installed again, important documents and personal data must be manually transferred back over from backups, and system settings must be customized again. This typically makes it more appropriate for advanced users or for select situations (like selling a Mac), and thus it should not be considered a standard upgrade path to get to OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Warning: Performing a format and clean install of OS X will erase the Macs hard drive and all contents on the drive will be removed. All files, applications, documents, photos, customizations, everything on the computer will be lost in this process. Understand this and know what you are doing, and why, to prevent data loss of critical files. We can not reiterate this enough.
How to Format & Clean Install OS X Mavericks on a Mac
You will need a bootable OS X 10.9 installer drive to accomplish a clean Mavericks install using this method. You can learn how to easily create one here if you haven’t done so yet.
Back up the Mac first with Time Machine or by manually backing up your important data – do not skip this step or else you will not be able to recover files
Connect the bootable OS X Mavericks installer drive to the Mac and reboot the computer
Hold down the OPTION key during boot until you see the boot selector menu, then choose “Install OS X Mavericks”
At the “OS X Utilities” screen, choose “Disk Utility”
Select the hard drive or partition to format from the left menu, then choose the “Erase” tab
Select format type “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”, give it a logical name (like Macintosh HD), and choose “Erase”, confirm to erase at the next screen
When finished erasing the disk, quit out of Disk Utility to return to the normal boot menu
From the “OS X Utilities” menu, now choose “Install OS X”, click “Continue” and agree to the terms of service, and select the freshly formatted “Macintosh HD” drive to begin the clean install process
(Excuse the unusual picture quality, some images taken with an iPhone 5 during the boot install process where screen shots are not allowed)
A clean installation of OS X Mavericks takes about 35-45 minutes to complete, depending on the speed of the install drive and the volume OS X is being installed onto. When Mavericks is finished installing, the Mac will reboot itself automatically and go through the initial setup process for OS X Mavericks. Register, create a user login, set the Apple ID and iCloud details, and you’re all done. You’ll boot directly to a very blank OS X installation, similar to the experience of getting a brand new Mac.
A fresh OS X installation is very bare with just about nothing included outside of the core system and basic Mac apps (intentionally so), thus any custom applications or apps you had previously downloaded from the web or App Store will need to be downloaded and installed again. For apps from the Mac App Store, that’s fairly easy, but for third party apps you will need to access them independently through the developers.
If you are keeping the Mac yourself, you will probably want to transfer your old data, documents, photos, and files back onto the Mac. This is a good time to access Time Machine to selectively restore certain files, or access backups made to network drives, DropBox, CrashPlan, external backup drives, USB flash disks, whatever your preferred backup method is and from where ever stored your data.
SRC - http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/26/clean-install-os-x-mavericks/
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X200 SSD (Solid State Drive) with clean-install of Vista or XP?

Hi all,
I apologize for starting a new thread on a new forum; however, I am running out of research time.
I am about to buy a X200 with the 64GB SSD (Solid State Drive) (and it needs to be bought by tomorrow Can I ask couple questions? :
1) I am legally using this for business purposes with an MSDN license, so I can and will install any clean OS immediately. With the option to install any Windows OS; which will work best [or at all] with the SSD? (I have read conflicting articles, but most are outdated due to SSD's being so new.)
2) With only the SSD and without a MediaBase, I read several guides such as This Thread on this Forum on how "fun" a clean install can be...are there any extra difficulties with the SSD?
I am a software engineer and would normally piece this together my research; however, I am running out of time before I have to decide if the SSD is a viable and installable option at this time (and if I should buy it!)
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Hello to all.
I'd like to know why AHCI mode is being suggested to use for SSD's? Please tell me why. I just don't understand. I think using Raid 0 Array would be the better choice. How does AHCI mode vary compaired to Raid 0 ? Is AHCI a better Mode? Does it give better performance then Raid 0?
I see alot of you are having problems setting up SSD's. I have read the first thing you need to do is make sure the firmware on any SSD you use should be updated.
I also see a lot of people here talking about the need to install Raid drivers. This is true with all other OS's, but I have found that after a fresh format, even on a new HD, I just installed Win 7 64 bit ultimate I went right into device manager to see what drivers are needed, & to my surprise all the drivers were already installed, including Raid driver & controller. I set up my Raid 0 Array at the F10 prompt, rebooted with OS disk with master drive after setting up boot sequence, & continued from there no problem with 2 150GB Raptor HD's in Raid 0.
I have gone as far as to use a Western Digital HD CD utility disc that has a write zero utility & used it to fast write zero's to the first 63 tracks & sectors including track 0 sector 0 where the MBR is written, & I've reformatted & reinstalled Win 7 from that point, & all the drivers still get auto installed. You can go right into device manager & see for your self. The only driver I ever need my be a sound driver update & Graphics driver. I'm not forgetting that the drivers that are auto installed are generic & may need updating, but what I'm saying is, I haven't seen any yellow question marks or exclamation points in device manager like you do with other OS's before Win 7.

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