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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 406172">If you have big files you want to keep, maybe you could burn them to CD or DVD? Also if you are a .Mac user like I am, you have surely by now tried out Apple's Backup app for smaller files and data. If not, you can launch it now. I use Backup to transfer all my bookmarks and Mail stuff once a week and it works great.I know you can use it for more types of files: it all depends on how much space you have left vs. how big the total size of the data will be. Backup calls the different configurations Plans. See the screenshot below.For the OS X reinstall, you could use the Archive and Install option (which lets you save your user data) but that might leave behind some residue where the Adobe registrations are left behind and am not sure if the cleanup would be deep enough to let you freely reinstall your Adobe apps.For the reinstallation process, you just insert the CD or DVD install restart your Mac holding down the C key and follow the prompts. There are three types of installs: update the OS (you don't want that), Archive and Install and the regular Delete and Install.[ATTACH=full]6025[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 406172"] If you have big files you want to keep, maybe you could burn them to CD or DVD? Also if you are a .Mac user like I am, you have surely by now tried out Apple's Backup app for smaller files and data. If not, you can launch it now. I use Backup to transfer all my bookmarks and Mail stuff once a week and it works great. I know you can use it for more types of files: it all depends on how much space you have left vs. how big the total size of the data will be. Backup calls the different configurations [I]Plans[/I]. See the screenshot below. For the OS X reinstall, you could use the [I]Archive and Install[/I] option (which lets you save your user data) but that might leave behind some residue where the Adobe registrations are left behind and am not sure if the cleanup would be deep enough to let you freely reinstall your Adobe apps. For the reinstallation process, you just insert the CD or DVD install restart your Mac holding down the [I]C[/I] key and follow the prompts. There are three types of installs: update the OS (you don't want that), [I]Archive and Install[/I] and the regular [I]Delete and Install[/I]. [ATTACH=full]6025[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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