Hi Phil, I went ahead and made a portable thumb drive of mountain lion after I downloaded it from the Mac App Store. I used lion DiskMaker to accomplish this task. I will follow Daniel's instructions for the clean install if that's what I decide to do. My concern is backing up and reinstalling the licenses from the software that I purchased from other locations outside the Mac App store, such as Checkbook Pro, Airfoil, Audio Hijack Pro, etc. I also have several sub mailboxes in Mail with archived messages that I want to save and restore, such as Under Gmail, I have Mac Visionaries where my rules have all mail from this list to be placed in a Macvisionaries folder. Under that folder, I have an important messages folder with messages I've saved from this list. This is just one example. I used CCC to make a bootable backup from Lion before I upgraded.
On Feb 9, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used Daniel's podcast to do a clean install of Mountain Lion a while back, > and it went perfectly. > > I would just say that you won't actually need to create a USB installer if > you don't have the materials. > > Daniel can correct me if I'm wrong, but you could just do a wipe and reformat > of your MacHD partition from the recovery partition, and then do a clean > install, also from that recovery Partition. > > Be careful about the reformat, make sure you reformat the MacHD partition, > and not the entire disk drive. If you need further instructions on this, just > ask the list. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel C" <topdog2...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:34 PM > Subject: Re: Mountain lion clean install > > >> Good day, >> My name's Daniel. I do podcasts on technology and anything to do with >> technology. >> I happened to have done a podcast on installing mountain lion cleanly, >> perhaps my podcast might help. As far as your other requests, I'm afraid >> another list member may be able to help. >> Meanwhile, here's the link to the podcast I put together. >> DPC Episode 3: Mountain Lion Clean install >> http://danielcproductions.net/files/dpc3.mp3 >> If you want to subscribe directly to my podcast feed, that URI is >> http://danielcproductions.net/files/feed.xml >> Hope that helps, and I hope you can get your other questions answered prior >> to a clean M L install. >> >> -- >> 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?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
