Move to a new account / reinstall OS...
Hi all,
I've been cloning and restoring data and my accounts for a few years now. I am on a 3rd machine and who knows how many OS updates, and it looks as if it's time for a clean up.
Bizarre little things are popping up left, right and centre. Boot time seems longish, some widgets (that work in new, test accounts) crash the dashboard, the keyboard backlit turns on and off as I start, quit apps (hitting STOP on iTunes ALWAYS turns the backlit off)... I guess some old prefs, bits and pieces of apps long gone make the whole machine just not 100% happy.
Thanks for listening so far, here's the question.
I am thinking of:
1. Make a new account and then manually migrate my data there and start afresh. With this option I see the following issues - I can't have two accounts with the same name on one machine, so how do I get back to the my current name on the new account? Also, that leaves the System as it is, and I suspect there are gremlins lurking there as well...
2. Simply reinstall SL, update to 10.6.2 and only then bring my stuff over from my clones and backups. I don't want to use the migration assistant as this would bring all my old prefs and junk over. Yes, I am happy to reinstall all the apps from scratch.
Obviously the most important stuff would be transferring my existing email setup.
What exactly must be brought over to keep my mail and setting intact?
Second is the iTunes + iPhone backups + apps... What's the trick here?
Apart from mail, the rest is well manage, backed up and organised, so I wouldn't even restore much data at all - all living happily on ext drives.
All your thoughts and advice is greatly appreciated.
TIA
if you really want to do a fresh reinstall with manual migration (it's far from clear from your post that this is actually necessary) then clone your system to an external, boot from the SL DVD, wipe the internal with disk utility and reinstall. after you boot into the new system migrate your stuff manually from the clone. see this link on what to migrate
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