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My Mac is running a tad slow and I have enough hard disk space and Ram. So I was thinking of re installing M Lion. My time machine backs up regularly .

I'm a bit of a novice, so if I erase my hard disk and re install M Lion ( easy to do apparently via recovery mode). When I do a restore from time machine after the erase will my mac and files be there? I don't have to do anything else? It just seems too easy.
 
Riz said:
My Mac is running a tad slow and I have enough hard disk space and Ram. So I was thinking of re installing M Lion. My time machine backs up regularly .

I'm a bit of a novice, so if I erase my hard disk and re install M Lion ( easy to do apparently via recovery mode). When I do a restore from time machine after the erase will my mac and files be there? I don't have to do anything else? It just seems too easy.
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You VERY rarely need to re-install MacOS. I used my last laptop for 4 years and re-installed once, same with the Mac Pro etc.....

It might be worth finding out WHY it's running slowly first and fixing that. This is likely going to take less time, less risk of loosing stuff and if you re-install everything you had before you have the possibility of ending up with the same issue.
 
I've done a disk repair and no major issues.

Takes a little longer to boot up and Safari sometimes has a slow down.
 
I haven't got time to go through it step by step to find out where the problem is as I'm off to work soon but between everyone on here it shouldn't be too much of an issue.
 
Riz

Take a look at your perofrmance through the Activity Monitor

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This might show you what is using CPU or RAM that could be slowing you down (using the tabs at the bottom to delve a bit deeper)

chances are that there is an app/process running that is slowing your machine down.
 
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What machine do you have / what specs?
 
As above machine specs, RAM amount, drive space remaining.
Probably time for a good cache clear out and other removals.
Download Ice Clean and/or OnyX.
 
I've just used Onyx and its as smooth as ever!! Thanks
 
cowasaki said:
You VERY rarely need to re-install MacOS.
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Or any modern OS, for that matter.

People seem to be solving problems on modern OS using techniques applicable to Windows 95 :suspect: (waits for someone to suggest defragmenting the hard drive to complete the circle)
 
You should only really need to re-install the newer Mac OS's if there's been a catastrophic failure of some kind, which is very unlikely :p Definitely let us know your machine specs etc and we can see what's up!


In other news, my stepdad just acquired his mum's 2007 macbook pro which was being a bit slow, but that's only down to the age of the thing - it was running a version of Leopard with pretty much no updates... A quick upgrade to Mountain Lion, 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD and it's perfect!
 
Think he followed my suggestion of clear caches in System and User, and Logs.
 
I'm considering an upgrade to Mountain Lion.

Can anyone confirm that if I do this, I'll need to re-license my software? Namely, Abobe Creative Suite. I can't find the license details anywhere...
 
PMK said:
I'm considering an upgrade to Mountain Lion.

Can anyone confirm that if I do this, I'll need to re-license my software? Namely, Abobe Creative Suite. I can't find the license details anywhere...
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Just contact Adobe, they will have the licence details.

You can never guarantee anything when you are installing an OS upgrade although usually they go through without a hitch.


SOME software has had new major version updates where the earlier one is not compatible. Where this is the case you would have to upgrade to the newer version. This happened with little snitch for me. CS was fine but I have a rolling licence so it doesn't matter anyway.
 
PMK said:
I'm considering an upgrade to Mountain Lion.

Can anyone confirm that if I do this, I'll need to re-license my software? Namely, Abobe Creative Suite. I can't find the license details anywhere...
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in place upgrade or format and reinstall?

if the former it should "just work" ( :lol: ) without needing to be reactivated, at least CS4 does.
 
neil_g said:
in place upgrade or format and reinstall?

if the former it should "just work" ( :lol: ) without needing to be reactivated, at least CS4 does.
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SHOULD :D

CS4 is listed as having a few issues with ML - Have you been ok with it?

This question often comes up where people are using dodgy copies (I'm not saying that anyone here would do that but Adobe keep all serials anyway so the question of loosing a serial number isn't really an issue)
 
cowasaki said:
SHOULD :D

CS4 is listed as having a few issues with ML - Have you been ok with it?

This question often comes up where people are using dodgy copies (I'm not saying that anyone here would do that but Adobe keep all serials anyway so the question of loosing a serial number isn't really an issue)
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its been fine itself. although with our ricoh printer driver pressing cmd+p it crashes CS4. workaround is the generic mac fiery print driver.
 
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