So would an archive and install be an acceptable medium then? Here is what it preserves: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120>
The main reason I want to get a clean slate is that I have accumulated some crud apparently with Tiger where whenever I restart or log out, when I log back in there is usually a folder named "Recovered" in my trash with various odd and ends in it. Also, occasionally my application icons will go screwy and many if not most of them will revert to the "generic application" icon. I must then reset each of them by hand, or rebuild the launch services, or both. I just don't want to miss any preferences or anything if a do a fresh clean install. rick On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > i've not read any documentation as to specifically what migration > assistant transfers. you can direct migrate assistant to only import > your home folder, but that's where most of the junk resides. i will > migrate libraries and reset preferences by hand. i did a clean > install on a zeroed disk for tiger with everything installed manually > and had zero problems since. best...jf > > On Oct 21, 2007, at 4:51 PM, b3studios wrote: > >> would doing a clean install of Leopard then using migration >> assistant, bring over any undesired junk from Tiger? >> Specifiaclly, I would like to have all my mail, preferences, photos >> (keywords!), music etc. preserved, but would like as fresh a Leopard >> install as possible. >> I don't mind re-installing my apps, just not all the little user >> stuff I've gotten just how I want it over the past two years... >> >> Rick > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
