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doing a proper nuke and pave - Kiva - 09-01-2013
Greetings
Well, my Lion install was just so slow, I started reading up and some suggestions were made to just do a nuke and pave. I haven't done that on any OS in forever, so thought I'd go with it.
So, a couple of questions:
(1) I also read about the use of migration assistant mucking up Lion. So, once the OS is re-installed, I assume it's install each app individually, right?
(2) are there system items I want to make sure I don't copy over from the old clone? I can do the whole mail file, right?
(3) Any other tips for getting my mac back to 'looking' like my old one did without bringing over what was causing the original problem?
thanks
matt
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - sekker - 09-01-2013
Just confirming - if that Mac can run ML, I'd use it rather than Lion.
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - Kiva - 09-01-2013
sekker wrote:
Just confirming - if that Mac can run ML, I'd use it rather than Lion.
it can..but can you confirm why? I think I was keeping Lion because we use exchange at work and doesn't ML screw it up royally?
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - mattkime - 09-01-2013
I think nuke and pave is overrated as a way to fix issues. i'd rather pinpoint the issue, fix it, and sip a nice cocktail instead of spending that time reinstalling and reconfiguring everything.
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - sekker - 09-01-2013
Kiva wrote:
[quote=sekker]
Just confirming - if that Mac can run ML, I'd use it rather than Lion.
it can..but can you confirm why? I think I was keeping Lion because we use exchange at work and doesn't ML screw it up royally?
I use ML with my work Exchange server running Outlook just fine.
ML has a ton of advantages over Lion, including more customizable UI, better iOS integration with the likes of the Messages app, and other improvements.
I've also shown that ML is actually more efficient running on older Mac hardware than Lion, on at least one clear occasion (both were clean installs).
And ML is one step closer to Mavericks, which I think is likely going to be a nice update (I'm expecting something along the lines of L to SL - lots of small tweaks that make it a compelling upgrade).
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - Kiva - 09-01-2013
sekker wrote:
[quote=Kiva]
[quote=sekker]
Just confirming - if that Mac can run ML, I'd use it rather than Lion.
it can..but can you confirm why? I think I was keeping Lion because we use exchange at work and doesn't ML screw it up royally?
I use ML with my work Exchange server running Outlook just fine.
ML has a ton of advantages over Lion, including more customizable UI, better iOS integration with the likes of the Messages app, and other improvements.
I've also shown that ML is actually more efficient running on older Mac hardware than Lion, on at least one clear occasion (both were clean installs).
And ML is one step closer to Mavericks, which I think is likely going to be a nice update (I'm expecting something along the lines of L to SL - lots of small tweaks that make it a compelling upgrade).
ah, ok...well, this mac is a mid 2009 model, so as long as ML will run fine, I have no issues with upgrading...
I've alway used ical and mac mail with our exchange server as outlook runs like such a dog...
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - space-time - 09-02-2013
mattkime wrote:
I think nuke and pave is overrated as a way to fix issues. i'd rather pinpoint the issue, fix it, and sip a nice cocktail instead of spending that time reinstalling and reconfiguring everything.
it is not overrated when you are dealing with someone else's Mac and you don't know what they did to it before.
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - Kiva - 09-02-2013
space-time wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
I think nuke and pave is overrated as a way to fix issues. i'd rather pinpoint the issue, fix it, and sip a nice cocktail instead of spending that time reinstalling and reconfiguring everything.
it is not overrated when you are dealing with someone else's Mac and you don't know what they did to it before.
I think a nuke a pave is called for here because I used migration assistant to move to Lion and the thing is a continuous string of spinning beach balls. And i have no time to 'figure it out'.
So, I guess I'll just act like it's a new computer and go from there....
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - decay - 09-02-2013
ML broke sync services with Microsoft, so don't upgrade if you rely on it.
Re: doing a proper nuke and pave - mattkime - 09-02-2013
>>I think a nuke a pave is called for here because I used migration assistant to move to Lion and the thing is a continuous string of spinning beach balls. And i have no time to 'figure it out'.
Activity Monitor usually gives a pretty good indication of what is causing beach balls.