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<blockquote data-quote="andym" data-source="post: 1614052" data-attributes="member: 163996"><p>Hi all,</p><p></p><p>My hard disk is on it's way out, so I've taken the plunge and ordered a shiny new SSD.</p><p></p><p>I've done a backup using Carbon Copy Cloner, and now need advice on the best way to proceed when the SSD arrives.</p><p></p><p>I believe I have two options:</p><p>Clean install</p><p>or</p><p>Restore</p><p></p><p>Obviously the easy thing to do would just do a restore to the new disk using CCC, but I heard that a clean install would be better.</p><p></p><p>If I go for a clean install onto the SSD, how can I then retrieve all my apps and documents from the old one? The documents would probably be easy, just copy them across, but what about all my apps? </p><p>I really don't want to re-install all the apps, so is there anything that will let me copy them across?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andym, post: 1614052, member: 163996"] Hi all, My hard disk is on it's way out, so I've taken the plunge and ordered a shiny new SSD. I've done a backup using Carbon Copy Cloner, and now need advice on the best way to proceed when the SSD arrives. I believe I have two options: Clean install or Restore Obviously the easy thing to do would just do a restore to the new disk using CCC, but I heard that a clean install would be better. If I go for a clean install onto the SSD, how can I then retrieve all my apps and documents from the old one? The documents would probably be easy, just copy them across, but what about all my apps? I really don't want to re-install all the apps, so is there anything that will let me copy them across? Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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