[X4U] Installing OS X: upgrade vs "nuke and pave?"

[Wayne Wilkin]

Personally, I have always been a fan of the nuke & pave also.
Ya, it may take longer, you have to reinstall everything, just far worse problems upgrading. Think of all the crap that's just lying around never being used, obsolete prefs files just crap. Your dragging stuff from maybe X6 all the way to X9. Look at some of the files or prefs, cache's, etc, I know I'm babbling, that's my 2¢.

On Jun 23, 2014, at 3:03 PM, catsoul <catsoul at thinkplan.org> wrote:

> For the past 10 years or so, I've been under the impression that the *best* (if not easiest) way to upgrade OS X, or to re-install it was the "nuke and pave" method, or reformat the hard drive, and install OS X fresh, then pull in your data.
> 
> I've learned from one other person that that is NOT the best way to ensure good results, and is more time consuming that simply allowing OS X to upgrade itself through the apple store.
> 
> what do folks here think of the relative merits of these two methods?
> 
> Nuke and Pave?   or,  upgrade from one OS X version to the next?
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