![]() On Tuesday night I decided to rip the band-aid off and do that clean install on my production Mac I’ve been promising myself I would do, “when I had time.” On Tuesday Steve and I tested the live show, which strains my Mac the most, and Mojave caused me no problems at all on the older Mac. Deleting an image can be a minute or longer some days. I wasn’t sure what the root cause was, but I looked at that darn beachball constantly when I’m doing the most trivial operations. As I did this testing on my 5-year-old MacBook Pro, I discovered that Apple Photos was way way way faster than it is on my 2016 MacBook Pro. ![]() For the less critical apps, I trusted my own testing.īut here’s why I thought it was really time to do the nuke and pave. I started by creating a Numbers spreadsheet with priority 1, 2 and 3 apps listed and found definitive answers on Mojave compatibility from each vendor where I could. I knew I could run the new OS on the other Mac, and test out my mission-critical software before jumping to Mojave on my production machine. When I bought the new MacBook Pro in 2016, I kept my 2013 MacBook Pro around for just this kind of situation. You may think I’m bonkers jumping to a new operating system within days of its release for my production machine, but I’m not as nutty as I may sound. Let me explain what pushed me over the edge. I preach a nuke and pave every year, but like everyone else, the task is daunting so I do put it off, even though I know the payoff is huge. My 2016 MacBook Pro which received that clean install 2 years ago is starting to struggle and I know it’s because of all the cruft that builds up over time. That nuke and pave was forced because after a hardware repair my 2013 MacBook Pro had an empty hard disk. In October of 2016 I did a nuke and pave (also known as a clean install) and I documented the major steps in a blog post. Half the time I forget that I’ve done it before and when I do a search I find my own posts which is awesome and embarrassing at the same time! If I can’t remember how to do some complex technical task and I’ve ever accomplished it before, I’ve got a blog post about it. One of the great things about being a tech blogger and podcaster is that just about anything I think is interesting has been fully documented. Partial list of tasks and apps organized in Wunderlist
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