02-05-2017, 04:27 PM
Yeah, today's that day, it's that time, where I'm nuking it all and reinstalling the OS from the zeros on up. I used to do it every OSX upgrade, but I've been negligent and it's been about 3 updates and 3 years.
For fear of copying any weird glitch over, I always have rebuilt my User folder from scratch. I always named it the same and used the same password (to prevent permission issues), and I take a ton of screenshots before doing any of it, to aid in getting all my settings back to how I prefer them.
However, from expert sites like this one, they suggest just copying the entire Home Folder back over to the new installation. I'd be nervous that doing that would potentially bring over the very glitches that I'm trying to remove. But I don't know enough about the underlying code to know if that's true or possible.
Any thoughts on that? Do you copy over your Home Folder, or do you set it all up from zeros and scratch?
For fear of copying any weird glitch over, I always have rebuilt my User folder from scratch. I always named it the same and used the same password (to prevent permission issues), and I take a ton of screenshots before doing any of it, to aid in getting all my settings back to how I prefer them.
However, from expert sites like this one, they suggest just copying the entire Home Folder back over to the new installation. I'd be nervous that doing that would potentially bring over the very glitches that I'm trying to remove. But I don't know enough about the underlying code to know if that's true or possible.
Any thoughts on that? Do you copy over your Home Folder, or do you set it all up from zeros and scratch?