Hello, I have to reinstall my OSX on a 5 year old iMac 27". I've constantly updated OSX over the years, and it is completely falling apart now. No worries, 5 years is a good time. Before this I had Windows and had to reinstall everything once a year!
I want to format the HD and start afresh. There are two accounts, mine and my wife. I want to completely create a new account (under my iCloud account) for myself, but just use the previous account for my wife.
I have a time machine backup on my QNAP NAS, and an online backup via Backblaze, so I should not have issues returning any data or settings.
1) Am I correct in assuming that for my new account, I can just a new one, and restore individual things such as my emails, favourites for Firefox etc?
2) Am I also correct that I can easily restore the entire account for my wife from Time Machine?
3) What will happen to my Time Machine backup? Will I need to re-back everything up again? Will it retain all my old files for the old Time Machine backups alongside the new?
4) Is there anything I should do for Backblaze prior to this reinstall?
5) How about iCloud? Should I prepare anything there before hand?
Any other advise will be welcome. I want this to be as smooth as possible.
Much appreciation in advance.
I want to format the HD and start afresh. There are two accounts, mine and my wife. I want to completely create a new account (under my iCloud account) for myself, but just use the previous account for my wife.
I have a time machine backup on my QNAP NAS, and an online backup via Backblaze, so I should not have issues returning any data or settings.
1) Am I correct in assuming that for my new account, I can just a new one, and restore individual things such as my emails, favourites for Firefox etc?
2) Am I also correct that I can easily restore the entire account for my wife from Time Machine?
3) What will happen to my Time Machine backup? Will I need to re-back everything up again? Will it retain all my old files for the old Time Machine backups alongside the new?
4) Is there anything I should do for Backblaze prior to this reinstall?
5) How about iCloud? Should I prepare anything there before hand?
Any other advise will be welcome. I want this to be as smooth as possible.
Much appreciation in advance.