[Ti] To Clean Install or Archive first, that is the dilemma

[Dennis Fazio]

--On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:45 PM -0500 Pedro Vera 
<pedro at veraperez.com> wrote:

> Would it be worth it to force a clean install

Archive and install does give you an effective "clean" install for the OS 
itself. The advantage of archive and install is that, if you have a lot of 
applications, you will not have to reinstall them all and reset their 
preferences. It can save a lot of work. You also will not have to reset your 
preferences for a lot of the system preferences. Any applications that do 
kernel extensions may have to be reinstalled, however.

A corrupt preferences file can cause trouble, but if all was operating pretty 
well before the install, you should be fine.

-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com