I admit my case may not be typical for Mac users. I had tested a lot of "special", "weird" and alpha/beta quality code installed, updaed and removed over the years.
Alpha and beta versions of low-level stuff such as custom video/audio drivers and anti-virus probably tend to leave around a lot more low-level and embedded cruft than most might see on a "daily driver" laptop that more often used for email, browser and office apps. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/
