Comments on: Today’s Links (31/10/07) http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/31/todays-links-311007/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/31/todays-links-311007/comment-page-1/#comment-11476 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:11:44 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/31/todays-links-311007/#comment-11476 That was exactly the sense of ‘upgrading’ I was using, a sense which may be exclusive to me!

I always make a bootable backup on an external drive, then do a clean install and slowly but surely transfer everything across (manually - I don’t trust that Migration Assistant thingy). Getting rid of all the cruft hanging about on my hard drive is just to make this easier…

]]> By: Andrew Back http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/31/todays-links-311007/comment-page-1/#comment-9290 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:17:13 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/31/todays-links-311007/#comment-9290 “upgrading”? I’ve never done a Mac OS X upgrade, but when it comes to operating systems wherever possible I prefer to make sure I have the apps I need to re-install to hand, backup all user data, and then perform a clean install and restore data.

It may just be geek superstition but I always feel better this way. I kinda see it as the difference between trying to patch up an old car where you don’t know what suboptimal surprises may lurk, and having something shiny, new and in a well understood state. And if nothing else you get a file system that is fresh and largely contiguous.

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