RE: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-26 Thread Simon Fogarty
Whats' wrong with the terminal -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Monday, 26 March 2018 8:42 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but n

Re: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-25 Thread Mike Arrigo
This is a good application, it will create a bootable install using an 8 GB drive, you can use a flash drive or an SD card if you have an internal or external card reader. > On Mar 24, 2018, at 1:47 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Yes link below. You also need the High Sierra

Re: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-24 Thread E.T.
Yes link below. You also need the High Sierra installer file. If there is not a copy of it in the Applications folder, you can download it from the Mac App store. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been

Re: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-24 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi ET: Thanks so much, is there a tool that i can use for this/ > On Mar 23, 2018, at 5:18 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Ramy, > To me, a clean install is doing it all from scratch. Running a backup is > always a good idea. The only data I restored was documents, media, and

Re: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-24 Thread Ramy Moustafa
lthough less likely if your only backing up > data.-Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On > Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa > Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:24 AM > To: mac mailing list <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-23 Thread Simon Fogarty
Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:24 AM To: mac mailing list <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i? Hi all: I noticed some bugs when using my mac-mini running highsierra, so, am thinking of making a fres

Re: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-23 Thread E.T.
Ramy, To me, a clean install is doing it all from scratch. Running a backup is always a good idea. The only data I restored was documents, media, and the Windows VM. I also downloaded most of the apps ahead of time and put them on an external drive. Create the installer on a USB stick.

Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i?

2018-03-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi all: I noticed some bugs when using my mac-mini running highsierra, so, am thinking of making a fresh copy. if i will make a time machine backup, will it save all my files and apps that are on my c drive? and is it suggested to use? i mean if i will do this, will it be a fresh