ReInstalling Mac OSX

[collectiveevol]

Hi All,

Lately my mac has been freezing up.. almost everyday now, when a month ago is was fine (and had been for over a year) never freezing once. I am thinking I need to do a reinstall of the operating system.

A few questions,

Will I still be able to keep all my current programs?

How do I do this?

Any help and/or additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Tamara

 

[edesignuk]

Archive Install.

As usual, best advice is make sure you have a backup before you start messing around.

 

[collectiveevol]

thank you

 

[IJ Reilly]

I would strongly recommend against reinstalling OSX at this point. Are you experiencing kernel panics (system asks to be restarted), or something else?

Please describe your symptoms more completely.

 

[ChrisA]

Two things:

(1) Make sure you have at least two copies of everything you care about. Do those backups ASAP and put them away, out of reach. (Three copies with one of them off-site would be better.) Don't forget the "ASAP" thing, see #2 below

(2) re-installing the OS typically does nothing. Yes if you owned an MS Windows computer you likely did some re-installs but Windows is a unique OS in that way. I'd bet that your problem is hardware related. (This is way I said do the backups now, not later.) If I had to guess I'd guess an intermittent RAM failure. But sometimes connectors are loose and pulling them out and pushing back in cures the problem. A re-install is unlikely to fix anything