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Clean install Snow Leopard and then upgrade?

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phubarr

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Is doing a clean install of Snow Leopard and immediately upgrading to Mavericks via Mac App Store the same thing as doing a clean install of Mavericks?
 
phubarr said:
Is doing a clean install of Snow Leopard and immediately upgrading to Mavericks via Mac App Store the same thing as doing a clean install of Mavericks?
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Well technically no... a clean install would be installing Mavs to a bare naked drive outright. That said, it is very very close to a clean install. The idea and purported benefit of a clean install is to get rid of all the file cruft one accumulates over time from installing different apps and data. If you do a clean install of SL then Mavs right after, you won't have any of this left over junk anyway, so it will be almost the same as a clean install.
 
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