Well actually, if you tried it on a system that's been running for a while, you'll see that a lot of little things fix themselves and the speed is relatively increased. Downside being restoring all the preferences to your like, especially voice over prefs which to me are the majority. Also, any licensed application you might have baught requires re entering the license key.
In the event though that you might end up in a chinese head twister, don't try to fix it, blow it off and restart fresh. To make the process less painful, you can save the important preferences provided they aren't corrupt and restore them after wipeout and reboot. Your preferences are on two folders on the system: /Library/Preferences/ And ~/Library/Preferences including the byhost folder. So say you backup com.apple.voiceover.plist and some others you might want to keep and it's all good. Once reloaded, license keys entered etc, which can be done via keeping the plists of the with the important difference that all your keychains, network prefs, mail accounts, itunes etc are all kept safely as they were beforehand. Except said applications, the system is running just as if it was deployed brand new from a netboot image. A do shell script to facilitate the backing up and restoring is easy to write, you just need to know and isolate those plists that you want backed up and voilà. On 29/01/2012, at 1:35 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Hmmm, now that is a rather interesting idea. Blowing everything away sounds > like it would take a little work since I'm sure there is stuff scatter in a > few places. :) > ALthough a fine idea to get things sorted. WGM is certainly working a bit > better for me. Btw, the WGM REmote app you referred to. I see it is for 10.5 > and 10.6, but does not mention 10.7, so does it work well for 10.7? > > Thanks, > On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > >> Ok, sounds like calling is a good alternative. >> >> I figured that isolating the culprit by identifying its process and >> deleteing the relevant plist helps a great deal each time. If you can't >> isolate it, you can also delete all the preferences, however that means >> everything would have to be reconfigured to your liking. >> >> Thinlking of doing a do shell script that restores all preferences but i'm >> on other stuff right now :) >> >> >> >> >> On 28/01/2012, at 11:52 PM, Scott Howell wrote: >> >>> Hey Yuma, I have not had any problems with the Server app crashing yet. I >>> did find a really weird problem when trying to edit the host name of my >>> machine and setup the interface. Trying to click apply caused that button >>> and the cancel button to go dim and I could not do a damned thing. Server >>> did not crash, but it sure as hell got stuck and had to be force quit. >>> So, hopefully they will improve things. I ended up calling APple about the >>> problem and they spent a really long time trying to figure out the problem >>> and eventually decided they did not know. However, they helped fix the >>> problem in the end. I have to give them credit, they really do try to help >>> to the best of their ability and they actually know their stuff. So, it is >>> hard to say if there is a bug here or something completely different. >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> On Jan 28, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: >>> >>>> Haha, >>>> Yep they did mislabel users and groups editing buttons. The issue here is >>>> taht wgm as a server admin tool probably got discontinued since they want >>>> it all through their crashy all in one server app which i wish i would >>>> never use, but not the case. >>>> >>>> The wgm app is pretty good, efficient and all. Just make sure your dns is >>>> set up right and you're cool doing stuff on your server from wherever >>>> >>>> Yuma >>>> >>>> >>>> On 28/01/2012, at 11:38 PM, Scott Howell wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey Yuma the drag and drop ain't working, so I might just have to try >>>>> that app. :) That or bug my wife into helping, but that is not a >>>>> solution. I did discover that someone at APple mislabeled a couple of >>>>> buttons in the WGM application. :) >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Scott >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hey Scott, >>>>>> >>>>>> There was a method for specifically opening the users and groups pop up >>>>>> window and select them around but i haven't used it since i use the >>>>>> workgroup manager app on my iphone. >>>>>> >>>>>> However you can probably try voice over's drag and drop? >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Yuma >>>>>> On 28/01/2012, at 1:20 PM, Scott Howell wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey Yuma, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there an easy way to add users to a group? 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