upgrading mac osx

2012-07-27 Thread michael weaver
this may be a horses for courses question so to speak but is it best to do a clean installation of the new mac osx rather than just do an upgrade from the previous version? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net

Re: upgrading mac osx

2012-07-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. you will get many answers from this and opinions. Mine is it's probably best to do a clean install. In the archives you will find a discussion I think dated 2 days ago when ml came out regarding this. The upgrade is quicker but I had problems last year and ever since I did the clean

Re: upgrading mac osx

2012-07-27 Thread Timothy J. Meloy
I did the clean install and it worked quite well. If u have a bootable backup on an external you can boot from there and download ML. then erase your internal Mac partition and install mountain lion back on your internal drive. You can transfer your apps and files back during the set up

Re: upgrading mac osx

2012-07-27 Thread josh gregory
I'm going to just upgrade once it finishes taking forever to download, as I personally don't have a dvd or hard drive available to me. On 7/27/12, Timothy J. Meloy tme...@fuse.net wrote: I did the clean install and it worked quite well. If u have a bootable backup on an external you can boot

Re: upgrading mac osx

2012-07-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
yep and that might work for you. sometimes it works and sometime sit does to. I'm probably gong to go down and get a DVD so I can burn a copy and if i like it use lion disk maker to update my flash drive lol! Take care and good luck. On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:53 AM, josh gregory wrote: I'm going

Re: upgrading mac osx

2012-07-27 Thread Gordon Smith
If you have Lion installed, you're fine either way. Gordon On 27 Jul 2012, at 16:04, michael weaver weavermi...@googlemail.com wrote: this may be a horses for courses question so to speak but is it best to do a clean installation of the new mac osx rather than just do an upgrade from the