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<blockquote data-quote="Demapples" data-source="post: 1616079" data-attributes="member: 199799"><p>So glad it worked out for you! I had a similar experience. </p><p></p><p>I spent weeks trying to upgrade Lion to Mavericks last year on a 2010 MacBook I inherited from the kids when they thought it was dying. Kept failing to install Mavericks. Tried multiple ways to do the install, including clean install. Kids had lost the original install disk. Used CCC prior so I could easily get back to the Lion setup each time. Replaced the hard drive: no difference. Finally prebooked time at an Apple Store on a business trip (we live many hours away). The genius ran a software check of the hardware then simply flashed on Mavericks. I went back to the hotel and reinstalled my apps. Worked fine, and then I easily upgraded that laptop to Yosemite on release day 3 over our home network. Laptop is like new. </p><p></p><p>Lessons I learned: do Time Machine backups but also maintain bootable clones using CCC or SD. (I also do manual backups so have 3 external hard drives, and I subscribe to a cloud backup service). Take it to an Apple Store when stuck: their customer service is great.</p><p></p><p>The redundant backup lesson got hammered home when I upgraded my mid 2011 iMac to Yosemite. The upgrade (not clean install) went fine and everything worked great, except I couldn't get Time Machine connected to my old Time Capsule, which had worked flawlessly for 3 years. I finally ditched the Time Capsule and bought a new WD external hard drive, and all is well. So glad I had not needed to rely on that TM backup!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demapples, post: 1616079, member: 199799"] So glad it worked out for you! I had a similar experience. I spent weeks trying to upgrade Lion to Mavericks last year on a 2010 MacBook I inherited from the kids when they thought it was dying. Kept failing to install Mavericks. Tried multiple ways to do the install, including clean install. Kids had lost the original install disk. Used CCC prior so I could easily get back to the Lion setup each time. Replaced the hard drive: no difference. Finally prebooked time at an Apple Store on a business trip (we live many hours away). The genius ran a software check of the hardware then simply flashed on Mavericks. I went back to the hotel and reinstalled my apps. Worked fine, and then I easily upgraded that laptop to Yosemite on release day 3 over our home network. Laptop is like new. Lessons I learned: do Time Machine backups but also maintain bootable clones using CCC or SD. (I also do manual backups so have 3 external hard drives, and I subscribe to a cloud backup service). Take it to an Apple Store when stuck: their customer service is great. The redundant backup lesson got hammered home when I upgraded my mid 2011 iMac to Yosemite. The upgrade (not clean install) went fine and everything worked great, except I couldn't get Time Machine connected to my old Time Capsule, which had worked flawlessly for 3 years. I finally ditched the Time Capsule and bought a new WD external hard drive, and all is well. So glad I had not needed to rely on that TM backup! [/QUOTE]
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