Hello Bill, I’ve been teaching Mac with VoiceOver here in France for several years and in my experience, a clean install is the safer option. Some people manage to do an upgrade with no problems, but the majority end up with anomalies that drive them to do a clean install in the end. This seems particularly true for El Capitán. Actually, if I didn’t have to teach it, I wouldn’t have bothered installing El Capitán for myself.
As for what constitutes a clean install, there are several variations on this theme. What I do is to make a bootable USB drive and make sure I have a Time Machine backup. I also clone my existing system using CarBon Copy Cloner (other utilities exist for this). I then shut down my computer and plug in the USB drive and install from that. I think it’s the second screen that offers the Utilities and I use Disk Utility to erase my HD. I then continue with the installation and retrieve my data from the Time Machine backup when the system asks if I have another computer or Time Machine backup. This has always worked for me, but if problems persist, you can always install an absolutely clean system then copy your data to it from Time Machine, but you lose all your favourite settings this way. Cheers, Anne > On 12 Nov 2015, at 13:57, Bill Gallik <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve been keeping my mind open to various discussions concerning installation > of El Capitan and do have a question that may initiate additional such > discussion. I wonder if installing El Capitan as an upgrade or as a “clean > install” might prove the better approach! > > And then, there’s the question as how to perform a “clean install?" > -———— > Bill & Leader Dog Holland > > [email protected] > > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
