Well, the files are, but you can't just dump all your backed-up apps back onto the system, at least as I understand it. On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I’d say just go for it. With all your apps and settings backed up, I > don’t see that it’s that much of a pain for goodness sake. Beats trying to > do it in windows anyhow. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > On Jan 24, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But I don't want to! :) I know it would be the best thing, but I'm not >> looking forward to re-installing and reconfiguring *everything* on the Mac. >> At least the process has Windows beat - I can grab most of my apps from the >> App Store, put my services back quite easily, and copy the vast majority of >> my data from my constantly-updated Time machine backup. Still, what a pain, >> and all because Mavericks decided to not install correctly. Like Brian, I >> just have a horrible feeling that I'll do all this work and nothing will >> change. It can't be because I have aftermarket RAM, can it? The ram worked >> just fine in 10.8, and I haven't had any sudden crashes that might indicate >> ram problems. >> On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well, I have found that a fresh clean install is usually the way to go >>> after about a year or so. May want to do it myself before April or so. I >>> believe a clean install might be the ticket for you. >>> >>> >>> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>> built-in! >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >>> >>> On Jan 24, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Ray, >>>> >>>> Yeah been trying to do everything except that, but might have to try and >>>> do that this weekend, as this is just getting ridiculous. My concern would >>>> be if I take the time and effort to do that and still have these issues I >>>> might blow a gasket. Amazingly, the choppiness hasn't occurred during this >>>> email writing so maybe there is a process running when I first wake up my >>>> computer some mornings that I am not aware of that is causing the issue. >>>> On Jan 24, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sounds like you might want to do an OS reinstall. Back your drives then >>>>> do the install fresh after hard formatting the principal drive your OS >>>>> was on. A bit dramatic, takes about two and a half hours, but, well >>>>> worth the effort. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>>>> built-in! >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> This is starting to get unbelievably frustrating as when I get to work I >>>>>> expect to work and not deal with hours of hours of VoiceOver problems. I >>>>>> just did a system repair and all was working fine for two days and now >>>>>> VoiceOver is back to being unbelievably choppy when reading anything. >>>>>> Multiple voices are choppy and it is not just one program where the >>>>>> choppiness occurs. I can't read an email all the way through without >>>>>> having to use VO and the arrows for all the words I can't understand or >>>>>> VO skips. Any ideas? According to Apple customer support and yeah VO >>>>>> just crapped out as I typed the word support I have enough RAM for what >>>>>> I am doing, and they are clueless to what the issue can be. 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