Hi all. I don’t have a time machine, so I just have to settle with living in the present, haha. When I reset my mac, I did I clean install, so that any apps that would dare slow my mac were cleaned from it. On Jun 22, 2014, at 8:53 AM, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally I just do a clean install from the Recovery Partition as I find > it all a lot simpler. It is true that the recovery partition downloads the > OS over the internet but even if your internet connection fails then all you > have to do is restart the process. Anyway I have had no problems with this > technique. > This is one area in which the Mac is just so much nicer than Windows for us > as this is all completely accessible. > > For what it is worth here is how I do it. Remember this is not the method > Chris Uses which relies on a prior saving of the OS onto another media. > > 1. Back up all your important data and make sure your Time Machine disc is > connected . > 2. Restart your Mac. When you hear the restart tone press and hold command > R. The Mac will restart into the Recovery Console. > 3. Once in Recovery Console press command F5 to turn on Voiceover. > 4. Interact with the Utility Table and select Disk Utility. > 5. Uninteract with Utility Table to enter Disk Utility > 6. Now navigate to the drive tab and select Mac OS HD as the. Drive you > want to work with > 7. Now navigate to the Erase Tab and the then hit the Erase Button. The > correct format should already be selected so you do not have to worry about > this. The erase was startlingly fast on my system. > 8. after you have erased the drive Navigate back up to the toolbar and > close Disk Utility. > 9. Reinter the Utility Table and this time Select Reinstall Mac OS as your > utility. > 10. In the Mac Reinstall Utility follow the prompts. There is one difficult > point where you are asked for your Apple ID and password and it seems > impossible to enter these. The general advice is to press VO FF2 twice to > bring up Window Chooser to make sure that the login window is in Focus. I > did this and it still did not initially work but I found that a single tap > on the track pad was then sufficient to return focus to Voiceover and I was > then able to enter my Apple ID and Password as normal. > If this does not work then make sure you bring the mouse to voiceover shift > VO F5 and try clicking your mouse and TrackPad again. It should work. > > That is pretty much it. The Mac will download the latest OS and start to > install it without any further intervention from you. I found that my Mac > restarted a couple of times during the reinstall and it took about 1.30 to > 2 hours to download and complete the install. You can monitor the progress > of the install with Voiceover. If you hear the Mac restarting just hit > command F5 and you will be able to hear whether you are still in Recovery > Console or that the Mac is in the new installed OS. If still in Recovery > Console where you should be able to hear a percentage progress report. Do > not panic if it seems stuck on a percentage. My seemed stuck on 83% for > about 20 minutes but it then completed the remaining 17% in about 10 > seconds. > > For a more relaxing experience rather than monitoring all this it may be > worth starting all this before going to bed and you should find your Mac in > a shiny new operating system in the morning. That is certainly what I shall > do next time. > > Finally the Mac will restart into OSX for real where again you can press > command F5 to bring up Voiceover. > > You will get the option to restore data and apps from your Time Machine > Backup. I elected to restore the data which was a good option for me as it > meant that all my mail setting and emails , Voiceover customisations > iTunes authorisation etc. were reinstated. It took about 20 minutes for > the important data to be retrieved from Time Machine. > > I did not accept the invitation to restore apps from Time Machine. I decided > to restore my apps selectively either by fresh download from the app store > or manually from the Time Machine Backup. > > So far this has worked well for me, a faster Mac with the convenience of the > important data restored. > > David Griffith > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jackie Brown > Sent: 22 June 2014 12:33 > To: 'OS X & iOS Accessibility' > Subject: RE: My clean install so far > > Hi Chris > > It would be appreciated if you could give me details of how you achieved > this. I inadvertently deleted notes on the subject, so cannot refer back to > all the steps from memory. I want to do this before updating to Mavericks > from Mountain Lion. > > Many thanks. > > > > Kind regards, > > Jackie Brown > Twitter: @thebrownsplace > Skype: Thejackmate > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john gallagher > Sent: 22 June 2014 12:14 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: My clean install so far > > hi chris that sounds very interesting indeed mist the first thread on this > so, can little then. you do this with out any sight at > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Hallsworth <[email protected]> > To: OS X & iOS Accessibility <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, 22 June 2014 11.22 am > Subject: My clean install so far > >> >> >> Hello everybody >> Well my clean install of Os X 10.9 Mavericks is going very well. My >> startup time has been dramatically improved thanks to the clean install >> from over a minute to about half that time maybe less. It certainly can >> help to do a clean install if you have issues like that. And when I say >> clean install I mean that. Restructure your disc and reinstall the >> operating system from scratch. As you have seen from my note the other >> day I used my USB flash drive with the Mavericks Installer created with >> Diskmakerx rather than the recovery partition. I like to have my >> installer on file in case my internet is out of action which would be >> required if installing from the recovery partition since the installer >> base image isn't actually stored on the partition. >> -- >> Christopher Hallsworth >> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind >> www.hadley.edu >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum > at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure > that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. 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