Best way to build out new OSX instance?

GSXRMovistar · 7 Jan 2015 at 23:30

My iMac had become very sluggish probably due to several versions of the OS being upgraded in place over the years so to speed things up I've got myself a new Thunderbolt SSD to build out a new OS instance.

The drive is all hooked up and I've installed a fresh copy of Yosemite onto it so I can dual boot now I need advice on what to do next, should I:-

A) I install and configure all my required apps manually (copying documents over from old drive where needed)
B) The migration assistance to copy both apps and data across (wondering if this will also copy across old bloat)
C) Some other approach

Any pointers/recommendations appreciated.

Cheers
Andy

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Jan 2015 at 09:41

I would say Data OFF, Format, Apps ON then Data left on EXT HDD.

This is generally the way it is when fixing systems regardless. Depends on the size of the DATA this usually goes onto few DVD's or a EXT HDD.

GSXRMovistar · 8 Jan 2015 at 21:05

That's not the concern, as I say the system now has two drives and two O/S instances. I Just want to know if the migration assistant does a good job of moving apps, settings, and data over (leaving anything superfluous) or would I be better redoing everything from scratch and moving data manually?

Feek · 9 Jan 2015 at 21:34

Personally I'd do it manually otherwise you're risking taking over stuff you don't actually need.

GSXRMovistar · 10 Jan 2015 at 11:49

I think I'm going to have to do it manually regardless, it seems whatever I select or not the migration assistant seems to think I don't have enough space on my new target drive.