The best thing you could do is install all the apps from scratch. After all if your going to go through all the trouble, you might as well start with a truly fresh system. Otherwise, you will be copying things by hand and you may not get everything necessary. If nothing else, you will have learned from the experience and that itself is worth the effort. Good luck,
On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Good evening, all. I'm highly skeptical that this is going to do any good, > but just because I want to say I've made the > effort, I'm getting ready to do a clean install of lion. While I'm doing all > my prep work: cloning to external drives to make > sure I don't lose anything, I'm going to listen to Mike's podcast on Lion. I > just wanted to write to the group, though, > because I'm curious how I'll go about putting back apps. Can I restore them > from the cloned drives, or do I have to actually > reinstall things? More than anything else, I'm concerned about the Acapella > voices I purchased to use with my mac, but > wouldn't mind tips about adium, skype and things of that nature. Also, how do > I back up my Itunes purchases. Granted, I've > only made two of them, but I don't want to lose them. What about Growl and > Yorufukuru? Will I just get those from the app > store again? > I've got 2 external drives handy, so I'm backing up not only my current lion > install, but also my perfect and up-to-date SL > install. That way, if the clean install still isn't satisfactory, I can put > everything back the way it was. > Any advice will be extremely appreciated. I just keep reminding myself that > there's no way I can possibly render the mac > entirely useless, but I don't want to lose any apps, especially not ones that > cost money. So, if anyone has any instructions > to share, I would be extremely greatful. Also, once I use my CD, will lion be > able to update itself to 7.2? > OK. Sorry for the rambling, disjointed message. I just am trying this to give > Lion another chance to get into my good graces. > Thank you all very much for your time, and I hope that everyone is having a > great day! > Missy > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
