Do u clean install your mac?
Re: Do u clean install your mac?
takes days to install again so....NO.
Re: Do u clean install your mac?
I started to run into issue with Finder and no amount of searching for a solution yielded and answer. Basically Finder was taking up to 15 seconds to refresh when I opened it, clicked on a file etc etc. I couldn't deal with it any longer, so reluctantly decided on a fresh install of OSX. I am running Lion and got a fresh install with all apps working exactly as they had before without the usual 3 days of installing apps and weeks of loading tracks and realizing there is some plugin not installed. Note this will only work if the issue is not in your profile or with an individual application...
One thing to consider, I am not sure if using a time machine back-up will yield the same results as below. I used TM when moving from one laptop to a new one and ended up re-installing from scratch as things were completely messed up. Maybe if it is on the same machine, it may go smoother. But here is what I did and how long it took...
Make an image of your current system disk (you will need a free drive with equal or more space). In Lion, you need to boot into recovery mode to do this in disk utility (option + R immediately after turning your machine on). Time taken (for a 65Gb system drive) - just over one hour.
Re-install Lion. Bit of a pain here as unless you bought Lion on a flash drive, it is only an update from SL at the moment. And the fresh install of Lion over the internet is a joke - don't bother with it. There are ways to get Lion on a flash drive or DVD from the Lion updater - check online for that. But I went ahead and installed SL from disk and updated. Time taken - 80 minutes to install SL and update to Lion.
Once Lion is installed, use Migration Assistant to get your profile and apps over. Time taken just over one hour.
Apart from having to install java again and update to the latest versions of Lion and iTunes etc, everything has run smoothly. Finder is running as it should and when I open a track in Live or Logic, every setting is exactly the way it should be and all plugins work with no issue. Same goes for all other non-music apps. In total - including updating Lion etc, it took me something like 4 hours, which I did while watching football yesterday, so no real time wasted. So you have a fresh system with everything as it should be - and it freed up 4.5Gb's of space!
One thing to consider, I am not sure if using a time machine back-up will yield the same results as below. I used TM when moving from one laptop to a new one and ended up re-installing from scratch as things were completely messed up. Maybe if it is on the same machine, it may go smoother. But here is what I did and how long it took...
Make an image of your current system disk (you will need a free drive with equal or more space). In Lion, you need to boot into recovery mode to do this in disk utility (option + R immediately after turning your machine on). Time taken (for a 65Gb system drive) - just over one hour.
Re-install Lion. Bit of a pain here as unless you bought Lion on a flash drive, it is only an update from SL at the moment. And the fresh install of Lion over the internet is a joke - don't bother with it. There are ways to get Lion on a flash drive or DVD from the Lion updater - check online for that. But I went ahead and installed SL from disk and updated. Time taken - 80 minutes to install SL and update to Lion.
Once Lion is installed, use Migration Assistant to get your profile and apps over. Time taken just over one hour.
Apart from having to install java again and update to the latest versions of Lion and iTunes etc, everything has run smoothly. Finder is running as it should and when I open a track in Live or Logic, every setting is exactly the way it should be and all plugins work with no issue. Same goes for all other non-music apps. In total - including updating Lion etc, it took me something like 4 hours, which I did while watching football yesterday, so no real time wasted. So you have a fresh system with everything as it should be - and it freed up 4.5Gb's of space!
Re: Do u clean install your mac?
FYI a partitioned usb hard drive sufficient to copy the lion image and install from without having to download again 
Re: Do u clean install your mac?
Yes, from the Lion updater, if you show packaged contents, there is a file called installESD.dmg or something like that in the last folder (not at my mac now and can't rember the folder name). That is the image you need for a fresh install. Doesn't matter if you put on a partition, a flash drive or a DVD - they all will work! For me it was quicker to go the SL route as I removed my optical drive in favour of a second HD and burning images doesn't work too well. Would have taken longer to partition the space on a drive too as I had no drive with nothing on it! Next time I buy a new HD, I'll make a small partition for this purpose.Rave wrote:FYI a partitioned usb hard drive sufficient to copy the lion image and install from without having to download again
Re: Do u clean install your mac?
All sorted, I now have a dual boot system. Best of both worlds 