I don't know if these questions were answered definitively by somebody
else but as far as I am aware the answers are
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?
A. Erasing your hard disc in Recovery Console will have no impact on your
dropbox content. What will happen is once you sign in is that DropBox will try
to populate your new Mac DropBox folder with the cloud content. Also if you
have run a Time Machine Backup your old DropBox files should be backed up there
also.
2. How can I restore all of my data from my Mac backup disk using CCC without
restoring System files?
A. I have never used CC much but I am not sure you can unless you boot up
inside your CC Clone and copy file to a third party drive such as a Flash drive
or external USB and then reboot into your clean install using this drive to
restore your documents. Alternatively again just use Time Machine to restore
your documents.
3. How can I restore Apple mail properly where I do not lose all of my
subfolders of saved mail, rules, etc?
I think this is more tricky. You can again migrate your settings across from
Time Machine using Migration Assistance but by migrating your settings you may
well lose much of the benefits of a clean install. At least that has been my
experience.
David Griffith
On 11/02/2016 03:33, Gary wrote:
Hi Sarai,
I’m getting ready to install El Capitan and wanted to do a clean install as
well. I was wondering if you did a clean install after all, if so, how did you
address your three questions? Did you get your three questions answered? I
have the same concerns.
Thanks!
Gary
On Jan 31, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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