I don't believe so. I've "Migration Assistant'ed" myself from laptop to laptop for the last seven or eight years, without issue.
D > On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Smith, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > We’ve all heard that Windows machines need a wipe/reinstall every couple > years. (I don’t know if that’s actually true, or just anecdotal. I rarely > have the same machine more than a year or two, so it’s never come up in my > personal experience.) Is there any parallel belief here, that MacOS X > installs need to be refreshed periodically? More important, is there any > evidence either way? > > My “laptop” install has been through three pieces of hardware (2008 MacBook, > to a MB Pro, now on an Air), and six point versions of MacOS X (10.5 to > 10.10). I’ve not noticed any real issues, but it’s possible that the > ever-improving performance of the hardware (faster CPUs, more RAM, moving to > SSD storage) has masked any software issues. > > David Smith > > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Morgan Blackthorne > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 10:19 AM > To: Tom Perrine > Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Cloning a Mac drive > > 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 > <http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS> > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Tom Perrine <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> From: [email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:discuss- <mailto:discuss-> > >> [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > <https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > > http://lopsa.org/ <http://lopsa.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > <https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ <http://lopsa.org/> -- I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it here <http://www.megacity.org/gpg_pub_derek_balling.txt>. Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/>.
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