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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1923560" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>There was a time when my MBP's were HDD spinner drives and I used to perform a "clean" instal once a year at the release of the next major OS upgrade. </p><p>These days it would be detrimental to perform a complete erase and reformat on an SSD every year and probably unnecessary. On a HDD it also performed the defragmentation process, popular then, that is also now unnecessary and definitely not recommended.</p><p></p><p>That does not mean that an occasional clean instal is not worth the trouble. Depending on use maybe once every three years.</p><p></p><p>You will undoubtedly rid yourself of all those little quirks, bugs and problems you could never pin down to any specific cause. Over time it's easy to develop workarounds for things that don't quite work, accept or ignore that this app is always slow to load, those sites don't load right, can't edit this list, don't know what these files are for but scared to remove them, etc, and accept shortcomings in performance because after all it still works, maybe just not as well as it used to.</p><p></p><p>If you want to renew that "fresh out of the box" feel there's nothing like a clean instal. You will eliminate leftovers, old app support files, scripts, redundant preferences and setup your device the way you always wished you had but were unsure how.</p><p>You get a chance to familiarise yourself with upgraded settings, menus and options, no doubt discovering things you can do today that were not possible before.</p><p>Last, but not least copying your applications back from an external source and or reinstalling them online will almost always result in omitting some old, seldom if ever used applications.</p><p>The combined results of all of this will inevitably be a faster, more responsive device with more storage than before and the feel of a new machine.</p><p></p><p>Ian has described the process in brief post #17, with the M1 and later you no longer need to create a Bootable macOS Installer on removable media to erase, format and map your internal drive. The whole process can be done using the Restore procedure, Recovery Assistant and a Terminal command. </p><p></p><p>Would I bother to do this for rbpeirce's problem? No, but over time these little things build up and it's nice to know that we can have a fresh start any time we want without going to the expense of buying a new device.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1923560, member: 204485"] There was a time when my MBP's were HDD spinner drives and I used to perform a "clean" instal once a year at the release of the next major OS upgrade. These days it would be detrimental to perform a complete erase and reformat on an SSD every year and probably unnecessary. On a HDD it also performed the defragmentation process, popular then, that is also now unnecessary and definitely not recommended. That does not mean that an occasional clean instal is not worth the trouble. Depending on use maybe once every three years. You will undoubtedly rid yourself of all those little quirks, bugs and problems you could never pin down to any specific cause. Over time it's easy to develop workarounds for things that don't quite work, accept or ignore that this app is always slow to load, those sites don't load right, can't edit this list, don't know what these files are for but scared to remove them, etc, and accept shortcomings in performance because after all it still works, maybe just not as well as it used to. If you want to renew that "fresh out of the box" feel there's nothing like a clean instal. You will eliminate leftovers, old app support files, scripts, redundant preferences and setup your device the way you always wished you had but were unsure how. You get a chance to familiarise yourself with upgraded settings, menus and options, no doubt discovering things you can do today that were not possible before. Last, but not least copying your applications back from an external source and or reinstalling them online will almost always result in omitting some old, seldom if ever used applications. The combined results of all of this will inevitably be a faster, more responsive device with more storage than before and the feel of a new machine. Ian has described the process in brief post #17, with the M1 and later you no longer need to create a Bootable macOS Installer on removable media to erase, format and map your internal drive. The whole process can be done using the Restore procedure, Recovery Assistant and a Terminal command. Would I bother to do this for rbpeirce's problem? No, but over time these little things build up and it's nice to know that we can have a fresh start any time we want without going to the expense of buying a new device. [/QUOTE]
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