Want to do Fresh Install of Leopard But Keep Settings

[Shasterball]

I'm thinking about doing a fresh install of Leopard because my MacBook Pro has gotten a bit bogged down. The thing is, I don't want to go through the process of reinstalling all the software and getting my settings back to the point where they are now (it takes years of fine tuning to get it to work how you want it to!).

Any suggestions on how to do a fresh install while being able to "import" my OS settings or installed programs? Is that not even possible?

Thanks!

 

[MacDawg]

Sounds like you want to do an Archive and Install instead

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[Shasterball]

Sounds like you want to do an Archive and Install instead

Woof, Woof - Dawg

I was thinking of that. But if my main goal is to speed up the system, will that work? Or will it just keep all the problems in place...

 

[JGruber]

Archive and Install basically takes your old OS X install and makes a folder on your harddrive called Previous Systems, with the old install, but it keeps your apps and settings, it just moves all Apple related apps to the above mentioned folder. Archive and Install

 

[MacDawg]

I was thinking of that. But if my main goal is to speed up the system, will that work? Or will it just keep all the problems in place...

It will be the only way to retain your settings

What problems are you having?
There may be other suggestions

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[Shasterball]

It will be the only way to retain your settings

What problems are you having?
There may be other suggestions

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Overall the system seems really sluggish. Applications seem slow, internet pages load slowly (Safari 4), apps take a while to load. It's way slower than before.

But I've checked/done the basic things: 60gigs free on HDD, repaired permissions, uninstalled/unloaded apps I don't need or use, etc...

 

[vansouza]

Archive and Install won't hurt, so try it.

 

[MacDawg]

Overall the system seems really sluggish. Applications seem slow, internet pages load slowly (Safari 4), apps take a while to load. It's way slower than before.

But I've checked/done the basic things: 60gigs free on HDD, repaired permissions, uninstalled/unloaded apps I don't need or use, etc...

You may want to reset Safari as well, clean out the caches, etc.
You can try running Onyx to make sure the maintenance scripts are current

An Archive and Install is non-destructive, so you don't really have anything to lose with it

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[Shasterball]

You may want to reset Safari as well, clean out the caches, etc.
You can try running Onyx to make sure the maintenance scripts are current

An Archive and Install is non-destructive, so you don't really have anything to lose with it

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Sounds good. Never actually tried Onyx, but heard good things.