Hi Sarai. No disrespect intended for Anne, but I don't think a clean install is necessary. If you don't have an external drive to back up your stuff through time machine, you could lose everything. You should just be able to install El Capitan via upgrade. I've done this method for 5 versions of OS X including El Capitan and I don't notice anything wrong or out of the ordinary. Although I do notice that every time my Mac has to do an update, my fan goes pretty much high speed but that's probably because it's showing its age and not an issue with the OS itself. But my point is, you should only do a clean install if its necessary so an upgrade will suffice for what you want to do.
Shawn Sent from my White MacBook Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Skype Username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime Username: bbssh...@icloud.com -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarai Bucciarelli Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 11:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: clean install of El Capatin questions Hi guys: Someone suggested a clean install of El Capatin to better handle voiceover. This makes me cringe! When I tried the clean install of Yosimiti, it was an absolute nightmare! I have questions to see if I can make this process less painful. 1. How can I make sure all my Dropbox content won’t be deleted from the cloud once I install El Capatin after erasing my Mac? 2. How can I restore all of my data from my Mac backup disk using CCC without restoring System files? 3. How can I restore Apple mail properly where I do not lose all of my subfolders of saved mail, rules, etc? Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
