If you did, please leave a comment and tell us of your experiences.The new OS for Macs OS X 10.11 El Capitan has been released but don’t upgrade yet if you use Office 2016, Office 2011 or the following apps. Hope you enjoyed this bit of tech recording. Now to decide if I’m going to clean install the rest of our old computers. It isn’t a backup program, but it works that way anyway, as it syncs selected folders on your selected computers. Get a Family Plan and backup all your devices. I use Crashplan to backup to the cloud – on all my computers.Make sure that you have the licenses, User names, and passwords of all your apps. In fact I’m writing this right now on my laptop using an open source app called MacDown (Markdown text editor). Beach balls are about as common as they are in Alaska. The hard drive is showing 60 GB of used storage. It’s been 3 days now since the clean install. The screen flashed briefly and the progress bar started again from the beginning, then quickly went to the OS X Utility window.Choose the USB drive that says “Install OS X El Capitan” You’ll see all the drives, including the USB drive.Keep holding it down until you see a boot loader menu appear When you hear the boot chime, press the Option key.Put the bootable USB in the computer USB port.Follow the instructions in MacSales Blog article below.Very simple, dedicated app for the sole purpose of making a bootable drive for OS X. If you don’t, when the install app is installed on the thumb drive, it will get formatted anyway. You can erase it using Disk Utility (format it as OS X Extended (Journaled).Then, when I was presented with my blank desktop after the clean install, I copied all those files and folders to my new desktop, and voilà, the familiar desktop instantly appeared.ĭon’t skimp on the Back-up step. This makes a good record of what was installed and what was re-installed.Īnother step I took just before I said good bye to my existing setup was to go to my Finder, copy my desktop (all of the folders and files on my Desktop) and copy that to an external drive. When you start reinstalling them, check off the ones you have completed. The whole list is now a checklist in an Evernote note. Then I selected the whole list, and clicked the Checkmark icon. Save this document somewhere other than on your local hard drive. Copy them to your clipboard (Edit Copy or Cmd C). Don’t rely on any single one of them though.Ĭopy a list of your apps: Do this by opening Applications folder. Carbon Copy Cloner, an external drive, Dropbox Pro, and Time Machine (Time Capsule) work well. Please read them all and select the methods that work best for you. Other methods are described in the resources above. I find it easier to put the folders in my local DB folder and when it has synced, I de-select the Selective Sync for that folder and the data is erased from my local disk, yet is kept on DB cloud. Please familiarize yourself thoroughly with Dropbox’s Selective Sync. I transferred as much as possible to Dropbox. NeuroGadget article Backing up your data and apps This the most important and time consuming part of the clean install process. I don’t like to use the Terminal, so I avoided that. I learned all the easiest methods and used them. Helpful articles – Read these 1stĮach of the articles below has a different approach. So after many new operating systems (5) overwriting the previous version, and countless app installations, I decided that a clean install would be worth a try.įind our what happened below. Some even cause problems – although you may not realize it.
Over 6 years you get a lot of files and stuff that don’t belong anymore. I cleaned out a lot of the data and backed it up in several places (see Backing up your data and apps below) After I moved most of the data, I still was using 250 GB of space. A fresh start!Īt one point I had only about 90 GB of storage left on a 500 GB hard disk. So after a few days I started researching doing a clean install that is, erase the drive and install the operating system, then start adding back only the data and apps that I deemed essential. Despite their claims that everything would work faster, it was still slow. I love to mess with technology, so I decided to install El Capitan, Apple’s latest operating system. It still works, but I get beach balls, even when typing in some text on a line.
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