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Clean Reinstall of Panther
I’ve got a few things to make sure I’m clear on before I do what I think I want to do…
Situation: My G5 dual is running slower than it has in the past. I’ve got 3-gigs of Apple RAM so things should be nice and speedy. And they have been, but recently things seem to just get slower and slower. I’ve done the whole permissions repair thing, multiple times and it’s not done much to improve the situation. It’s been a little over a year since I did a clean reinstall and now that I have a lull in editing I’d like to do some house cleaning.
I’ve got FCP4.5, DVDSP 3.0.2, Motion 1.0.1, and the Adobe CS suite. (AJA Io as well).
Clarification: Does a clean reinstall only touch OS system components? If so what do I need to worry about? If not, what other things do I have to worry about? I know I’ve got a lot of Software updates to do for the system when I do this, but what else as a FCP editor do I need to worry about?
PS I’m not in the middle of any projects, but would rather not erase any movie files even though they’re all on an external Promax SATA RAID 1tb drive.
“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Work:
Machine Model: Power Mac G5
CPU Type: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 3 GB -
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It’s a fine idea to reinstall your startup disk… you’ll be surprised how much faster it may become doing this.
The only thing I can think of is to backup all email you need, Documents, of course. FCP project files etc… You might even want to clone your startup disk with something like Carbon Copy Cloner so you can go back if need be to retrieve something you forgot to back up etc…
Then… do an erase and install of Panther (just keep in mind it’s going to do just that ERASE the hard drive) Format it Mac OS Extended with Journalling on, update it, repair permissions and start installing software after that… Then drag back from your backup.
Might be a great time to upgrade to Tiger (or create a partition for it on your startup disk for a later install). FCP will love you for this… I do it about every 6 months or so and it works to really keep my system fast. I run multiple OS’s here and keep a 4.5 system running on 10.3.8 Just for really mission critical stuff right now.
Jerry
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Thanks for the feedback! I have made a clone of the HD, but haven’t gone through with the reinstall yet. (Need to make sure I have all my programs in order first). I have been going through and doing a complete reorganization of my system; where and how iI keep files. Just to make things simpler and easier. I think it might be a good time to upgrade to Tiger as well. We’re not in the middle of any projects and I’ve saved copies of all my FCP projects.
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