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<blockquote data-quote="EndlessMac" data-source="post: 1090410" data-attributes="member: 140470"><p>After reading that I am now thinking that your problem might from the upgrading OS. I prefer clean installs when getting a new OS. There have been other users reporting problems with spinning beach balls and other problems when doing an upgrade rather than a clean install. Some people don't have any problems but others do.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine does backup pretty much everything but if you restore from TM then it might bring back the problems you currently have if it's OS related. If you have a second hard drive then you should just manually transfer all your personal data like music, word processing files, pictures, etc but nothing from the OS. You then make note of all your applications and then reinstall them when you do a fresh install. You will have to also write down all your passwords if don't have them memorized because they will be deleted also on a fresh install.</p><p></p><p>A clean install will let you know whether your problem is hardware or software related. If it's hardware related then fix the hardware and then restore from TM but if it's software related and a clean install solves your problem then you will have to manually add everything back so that you don't bring back the problem you currently have.</p><p></p><p>With a second external hard drive you can also first try making a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner and then boot from that and see if it's your internal hard drive that is the problem. If the problem persists then try the clean install.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EndlessMac, post: 1090410, member: 140470"] After reading that I am now thinking that your problem might from the upgrading OS. I prefer clean installs when getting a new OS. There have been other users reporting problems with spinning beach balls and other problems when doing an upgrade rather than a clean install. Some people don't have any problems but others do. Time Machine does backup pretty much everything but if you restore from TM then it might bring back the problems you currently have if it's OS related. If you have a second hard drive then you should just manually transfer all your personal data like music, word processing files, pictures, etc but nothing from the OS. You then make note of all your applications and then reinstall them when you do a fresh install. You will have to also write down all your passwords if don't have them memorized because they will be deleted also on a fresh install. A clean install will let you know whether your problem is hardware or software related. If it's hardware related then fix the hardware and then restore from TM but if it's software related and a clean install solves your problem then you will have to manually add everything back so that you don't bring back the problem you currently have. With a second external hard drive you can also first try making a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner and then boot from that and see if it's your internal hard drive that is the problem. If the problem persists then try the clean install. [/QUOTE]
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