I’d always do a clean install as I’d rather start fresh as it were then you can’t blame the other operating system if things go wrong.
Thanks. Kawal. > On 14 Oct 2015, at 19:28, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > No criticism here. First, I wait for x.2 at least, maybe x.1. Then using > DiskMaker X, I do a clean install. Yosemite was installed once this way. > > Its a lot of work but its only once a year after all. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it were true? > > On 10/14/2015 9:46 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> Hello Eileen, >> >> I expect a heap of criticism for what I’m about to say. >> I always recommend installing a new OS from a USB key and wiping the >> hard drive before doing the installation. You can then restore your data >> and settings from a Time Machine backup. >> I’m so tired of seeing unpredictable behaviour when people just do an >> upgrade on top of the existing OS. >> My husband is currently on a long phone call with a client who tried to >> install El Capitán on top of Yosemite, and her machine will no longer boot. >> >> Once the machine is in a bad way, the best thing to do is a clean >> install from a USB key and not copy everything from Time Machine, but >> reconfigure the machine from scratch and only copy back your data from >> Time Machine. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 18:05, Eileen Scrivani <etscriv...@verizon.net >>> <mailto:etscriv...@verizon.net>> wrote: >>> >>> Traci, >>> On Sunday, I called Apple tech support with what I thought would be a >>> simple question and fix to problems I experienced while using IBooks.I >>> did the upgrade to El Cap from Yosemite. >>> Apple tech shared viewing my computer and observed the behavior. I >>> literally spent about 3 hours on the phone with them. The exact >>> problem you describe with VO just stop working – no sound – kept >>> happening across the board. I kept having to use command F5 to turn >>> it back on (I never turned it off to begin with). Finally the tech >>> rep suggested restoring the install of El Capitan. The system would >>> not even allow me to restore/reinstall the software. Bottom line is I >>> have an appointment set up on Friday morning to bring the Mac book >>> into them and let them work on it in the Apple store. I’m very >>> disgusted with the computer at this point. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
