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I want to do a clean install of OSX Mavericks and manually transfer user-files.
Reasons:
- I have migrated my User-Account over 3 or 4 releases and I want to make sure i don't carry old data or launch-agents and the like around.
- DiskUtility/Verify Disk tells me about a checksum-problem somewhere with my hard-drive for month and it's not possible to fix it in Repair Mode.
My plan:
- Copy everything onto a backup-disk (using TimeMachine)
- Create an Installer-USB-Stick, wipe the disk with DiskUtility and install.
- Recreate my settings.
- Copy over "regular files" like Documents, unmanaged Fotos, Videos etc. from the "raw" TimeMachine-disk.
- Copy over stand-alone applications, reinstall more complex stuff.
Up to this point I think I can just chown the files to belong to the new user (which is going to have a different id).
Problem areas:
- KeyChain: can be imported/exported which should pose no problem.
- necessary
Library/Application Support-Folders: This is were it starts to get tricky. Are ACLs involved here? Probably… - FileVersions: If I understand correctly, those are kept in
/.DocumentRevisions-V100. Are user-Ids involved here?
Further questions:
- Can I somehow change the ACLs to reflect the new user-id?
- Should I forget about cleaning out my UserAccount and just do a clean-install to repair the disk and afterwards use the MigrationAssistant?
- Is it wrong to assume that I can
cporrsyncfrom TimeMachine-Backup directly? - What else could possible go wrong?
Fabian Zeindl
Posted 2013-10-23T13:05:35.260
Reputation: 308
This seems like an awfully complicated way to me. Wouldn't it be much easier to just find out where there is wasted space? (ccleaner comes to mind) – bdecaf – 2013-10-23T13:44:14.853
Yeah, one reason is the 'inconsistent crosscheck' warning that DiskUtility reports for my boot-volume. – Fabian Zeindl – 2013-10-23T14:12:53.267
But what about plain restoring from time machine and then do the cleaning afterwards? – bdecaf – 2013-10-24T11:44:19.890