That's a worthy thought. This was 10.7 to start with and 10.9 now. -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~
"Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote: > I did this on my desktop last Summer, but I took a different approach. > The existing desktop had started life in 2008 as 10.5, and had had > lots of "stuff" installed and removed over the years, including some > tools that had overly-intimate knowledge of MacOS X. Don't get me > started on all the crap AV stuff I tested. > > Some items I had tested over the years had installers that were not > very good at cleaning up. It had also been incrementally upgraded > from 10.5 through 10.8 > > I did a complete new install of 10.8 onto the new drive, and then used > the Apple migration tool(s) to only bring over data files. I also > could have used a time machine backup. > > Applications I re-installed from scratch. > > This was probably a tiny bit more time consuming than the disk > duplication paths, but to be honest, I installed the SSD at about 0800 > and was completely up and running with 90% of what I wanted by 1100. > I did install a few more apps over the next few days. > > This completely avoids all the dd block size, TRIM, SSD black magic, etc > issues. > > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Zack Williams > >> > >> OS X's Disk Utility can clone drives - see the "Restore" tab. > Destination must > >> be same size or larger than the source. > > > > I've had bad luck using Disk Utility for cloning. I stick with > SuperDuper. Or just restore a Time Machine image. > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > > http://lopsa.org/ >
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