No, I don't want to restore everything. I just wondered if I could restore certain parts of the system, such as mail accounts or YoruFukurou preferences and logins. I can redo everything if I have to, but the more I can simply copy back in the better. Thanks. On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:43 PM, David Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you do a time machine restore, you are likely to also restore whatever is > causing your problems. If you possible can, do a clean install and take the > time it take to set things back up again from scratch, provided you know how > to get your data from Time Machine without doing a restore. I think our > issues might be similar. Apparently all my hardware is fine and my SSD is > fine, but the system won’t boot from that drive. This started happening from > time to time when I upgraded to Mavericks. > > Cheers > Dave > > On 13 Jan 2014, at 06:31 pm, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I really hoped you wouldn't say that, as it points to my install being bad. >> I've reset the SMC and PRAM, repaired permissions in Mavericks and in >> Recover Mode, and have 8gb of ram which used to work more than fine. Is >> there anything else at all i can try that isn't a clean install? Related: if >> I do a clean install, and I have a Time Machine backup made just before that >> install, can I restore all my apps, including settings, through Time >> Machine? I know some preferences will be lost, and I know I can get my >> documents and other files back easily enough, but what about things like >> mail accounts, Twitter logins, or my Mac's Keychain? Can any of that be >> recovered? >> On Jan 12, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Nicholas Parsons >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have issues with Mavericks, but sluggishness isn't one of them. Launching >>> apps, switching apps, opening emails and playing audio and video files all >>> work very snappily for me. I'm using a 2011 MacBook Air with 4GB RAM and a >>> 1.7GHz i5 processor. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
