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. Thanks.
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