When I upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion, I think I will take the opportunity to do a clean install of the operating system and port my data across as needed. It's something I have been meaning to do for some months and the upgrade makes a perfect transition time. I have dozens of applications that I no longer use and settings tweaks that I have forgotten I ever made. The clean install will give me a stock standard set up and I will only port across the apps that I use. I plan to take notes on all the steps so after things shake themselves out I will have a list of the apps and settings that I find essential. Similar to a clean-out of the garage, any data that I have not used for ten years is likely to end up on the curb.
Thanks Peter H for the advice on Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) and the spare disks. I have used CCC with external drives before but the disk caddy will take the whole operation to a new easier level. Cheers, Carlo sung to the tune of John Lennon's "Starting Over" :-) On 2011-06-26, at 16:41, David Noel wrote: > > -- An amusing little ditty I saw years ago about Backups: > > Yesterday > All my backups were a waste of pay.... > Now my database has gone away... > I remember > Yesterday.... > > (for the tune, see the Beatles' number 'Yesterday'). > > David Noel > 2011 Jun 26 > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
