Reinstall mavericks and restore apps

I am system log is filled with entries with failures and invalid messages. the system is running 10.9.2 on a mini mid 2011. It was upgraded starting with snow leopard, Snow Leopard->Lion->Mountain Lion->mavericks. I am contemplating doing a fresh install of Mavericks. I have many apps installed. Am I correct in thinking that my time machine backup will not help to restore the apps and that I will need to manually reinstall them?
thanks
john prokopek

When you restore from Time Machine it uses Migration Assistant and it give you some basic options…
Open Migration Assistant to see the options better - it's in /Applications/Utilities, just quit before you get past the choices Migration Assistant is basically two options to select "all or nothing".
Copy User data (you can select users IIRC).
Copy Applications.
The 'Applications option' is what you want to avoid because you are disatified with how the apps are working on 10.9. This option will restore a lot of apps & almost all of thier supporting files incluing kernel extensions & system level background jobs (some licences may need re-entering), but you also get all the junk that is loading into the system.
You could restore just your user data, however it will also restore all the preferences that you have acumulated. So when you reinstall & launch apps you should find that apps have the same settings in your restored account.
Migration Assisant is probably the safest way to pull out an entire user from a Time Machine backup, but you may want to consider deleting some files from that account when you first login (like login items).
I'd recommend that you clean install, setup an admin account and then use Migration Assistant for the old user data. If it is still unstable you can delete the user account & restore by hand (just the important files like Documents, Music, etc). You will still need to reinstall applications, but on a clean OS they should be fine (assuming the apps are supported on 10.9.
Does that clarify anything?

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