“Up until last week, my user account on the MacBook Pro was one that had been migrated forward through OS X upgrades and Migration Assistant since moving from OS revision to OS revision and machine to machine since — and I can’t believe I’m writing this — 2003,” John Moltz writes for Macworld. ” That means this account has existed since I was using Mac OS X 10.3 Panther on a PowerPC machine.”
“Running the OS X upgrade process (as opposed to doing clean installs) and using Migration Assistant to move accounts to new machines both have worked fairly well for me,” Moltz writes. “But over a period of 12 years, some unwanted baggage can accumulate, and that user account you rely on can get little temperamental. How does a computer with a more than a decade-old user account express its temperament? It’s slow. It lets you rename the computer in the Sharing Preferences pane but doesn’t change the name in the Terminal. It refuses to let you connect via screen sharing. It takes two tries to reboot it. It’s generally just surly and difficult.”
Moltz writes, “Enough was enough. It was time to start over with a fresh install.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Hmm, this gets us thinking. The last time we built clean Macs from the ground up were our first round of 11-inch MacBook Airs (MacBookAir3,1), so… late 2010. Yeesh! Not nearly as bad as 2003, but pretty bad. Time to do it again!