Re-Installing Lion

divuk83

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I have a few questions regarding doing a re-install of Lion. I have just bought an SSD to replace the superdrive in my iMac and I have already created an install USB stick for Lion however I was wondering what the best way to move all my apps and docs over would be? I know I can restore all my docs from my time machine backups however will that restore my apps? Also could I just transfer everything over from the 1tb drive to the new SSD once I have put lion on it?

Also what the best/easiest way to enable trim?

Cheers

Dave
 
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To be honest, there is no real reason to reinstall. Yes, you get a clean slate, but it doesn't make that much difference.

I'd just use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive, job done really!

To answer your other question, TRIM Enabler is the easiest. Best way...probably TRIM Enabler again, merely because it is an automated version of the process you'd otherwise have to go through, and it backs up the relevant .kext. As for whether or not you need TRIM, that's a different matter.
 
Thanks for that.

I was planning on enabling TRIM as it was my understanding that the drive may perform better and last longer, plus I was under the impression Apple enable trim on their factory fitted drives? It's a Kingston 120GB V+200 if that makes any difference?

Cheers

Dave
 
TRIM will do both of those if you are doing extremely heavy writes (not under normal desktop use, basically). No harm in enabling it at all, but it isn't necessary for most.

To be honest, you might as well if you feel that you want to!
 
bloodiedathame said:
Avoid the app Trim Enabler and do the TRIM enable through the terminal.

(IIRC Trim Enabler rewrites an entire kernel rather than just modifying a few lines).
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It does, but this isn't an issue unless you use the wrong version. There is a Lion-only version. By kernel I presume you meant kernel extension (.kext)
 
lamboman said:
It does, but this isn't an issue unless you use the wrong version. There is a Lion-only version. By kernel I presume you meant kernel extension (.kext)
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Yeah that makes sense. I guess there are some folk who would manage to get it wrong. That's right .kext, remember that appearing in terminal a lot.
 
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