OK, thanks for that. I may do this, but I may also wait a few months
and try again -- I do have a time machine backup and even a superduper
backup of a Sierra system which did not work well, but I saved it
because Apple wanted some logs from the new system.
Thanks again.
On Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:48:12 -0400,
Cheryl Homiak wrote:
stalling them. But you do know which applications you use most frequently and
Okay, I'm going to copy your questions here broken up so I can try to address
everything at least to some extent. I apologize that the quote levels may
look mixed up and am not sure how to straighten that all out; just make sure
that voiceover reads everything or arrow down through this.
1. how do I tell what programs
are installed that would effect the operating system?
I would say pretty much anything can affect the operating system; there may
be some programs that could have a greater effect but that's one of the
reasons to do a clean install. You want nothing from your old system having
any impact on the new system at the beginning.
2. Do I need anew disk to do a clean install?
There are two ways to do this. Either (1) leave your current system intact
and do the clean install on another disk; or (2) backup your current install
to another disk and then erase the disk and do the clean install on that.
What I usually do is leave my current install alone, though I also always
have both Time Machine backups and Backblaze backup and a super duper made
bootable of my original anyway on another disk. Then I do the clean install
on a new disk but you can do this either way. But if you do a super duper
bootable backup of your current install and plan to erase the original, boot
into the backup and make sure you have it working right before erasing your
original. Either way you do need another disk; in my method I use two
external disks. The exception would be that you could partition one disk to
have both but then if anything happens to that disk you have lost everything
so I personally don't recommend that usually.
3. Aside from voiceover settings where would I go to see what is "installed"
which is different on a Mac then on Windows?
When doing the original clean install, what is installed on the old install
doesn't matter so much because you are not going to add any of that in right
at the beginning and you are going to be setting up your preferences and
accounts etc all over again. Some, of course, will come over from iCloud
though I usually run the system at least for a short time before even signing
into iCloud and doing that if I'm really concerned about problems. Your basic
applications will be installed on the new clean system anyway. But on your
old install, of course you have the Applications folder and you have your
Preferences mostly in ~/Library/Preferences or ~/Library/Application Support
in your home directory. You can also go to System Information in Utilities
(ctrl-option-u in finder) and see a list of your applications, versions, when
installed and where they were obtained. I would especially be careful about
checking to see if third-party applications yet support the new OS before in!
I know that this looks complicated and depending on your system it can be,
especially the first time you do it. If I was actually working with somebody
I would probably give instructions step-by-step instead of explaining all of
this at once but I'm trying to give a somewhat definitive answer to your
questions. I am quite sure I am leaving things out so don't consider this
anything like a full explanation.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
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