Hi All,
Hoping someone can help me out here....
I have an iMac running Lion upgraded from SLeopard. It's set up pretty much as I like it... except it's sloooow.
I have 2 x External HDD holding movies and photos .. a couple of TB's worth. My Music is on the internal HD as are all my apps (obviously?)
I've tried OnyX and ClamXav to speed things up a bit but doesn't really seem to make much difference.
What I'm thinking of doing is re-installing Lion. But TBH I'm dreading it. Reson being my 20+thousand of photos are all FaceTagged, I've movies that are 1/2 edited and waiting work, I run at least 3 websites from iWeb using SEO tool, I've Facebook contacts all synced and de-duped with Address book and iPhoto.... and 1 or 2 bits of dodgy software.. a Airport bridging my network and a 2TB timemachine
I fear all of this will die if i re-install... or at least it's take days to get everything back up as it was.
Here's where I need help....
is there any way I can, for instance, move apps onto an external HD before reinstalling Lion so as too keep them unaffected (inc. iPhoto or iWeb?)
Or is there any software that will remember what i have where and put it and move it all back after the install? (selected apps only - no point if it's all the same afterwards!)
Or maybe theres just a way of seeing (and logging?) why my mac is slow and fixing the root of the problem?
Anyway - enough waffle .. what d'ya think?
Cheers
J
Hoping someone can help me out here....
I have an iMac running Lion upgraded from SLeopard. It's set up pretty much as I like it... except it's sloooow.
I have 2 x External HDD holding movies and photos .. a couple of TB's worth. My Music is on the internal HD as are all my apps (obviously?)
I've tried OnyX and ClamXav to speed things up a bit but doesn't really seem to make much difference.
What I'm thinking of doing is re-installing Lion. But TBH I'm dreading it. Reson being my 20+thousand of photos are all FaceTagged, I've movies that are 1/2 edited and waiting work, I run at least 3 websites from iWeb using SEO tool, I've Facebook contacts all synced and de-duped with Address book and iPhoto.... and 1 or 2 bits of dodgy software.. a Airport bridging my network and a 2TB timemachine
I fear all of this will die if i re-install... or at least it's take days to get everything back up as it was.
Here's where I need help....
is there any way I can, for instance, move apps onto an external HD before reinstalling Lion so as too keep them unaffected (inc. iPhoto or iWeb?)
Or is there any software that will remember what i have where and put it and move it all back after the install? (selected apps only - no point if it's all the same afterwards!)
Or maybe theres just a way of seeing (and logging?) why my mac is slow and fixing the root of the problem?
Anyway - enough waffle .. what d'ya think?
Cheers
J
